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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Lilian Thuram and Thierry Henry lead new charge against racism in football

Lilian Thuram, Evangelos Marinakis and Thierry Henry during the Racial and Gender Equity in European Football Conference at the City Ground.
Lilian Thuram, Evangelos Marinakis and Thierry Henry during the Racial and Gender Equity in European Football Conference at the City Ground. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

Thierry Henry, Lilian Thuram, Viv Anderson and Anthony Elanga are among a number of prominent footballers past and present to have signed a pledge committing themselves to publicly push for racial equality in football.

An idea initially proposed by the Lilian Thuram Foundation, which exists to support anti-racist education, the statement was agreed during a conference at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground in which players and Harvard academics discussed how to further anti-discriminatory aims.

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