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5/29/12

Soccer: Ukraine, Poland outraged at football racism allegations

Ukraine and Poland have angrily rejected allegations made in a BBC documentary that far-right gangs were rife in Ukrainian and Polish football.

"To accuse Ukraine of being fascist and racist - and to do it in the tone in which it is being done by the British media, some British footballers and individual British politicians - is simply disgraceful," said Oleg Voloshyn, spokesman at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

He went even further by saying that "you can criticize Ukrainian society for a lot of things ... but, in the practice of racism, European Union member countries are a long way ahead of Ukraine."

Read more: Ukraine, Poland outraged at football racism allegations | News | DW.DE | 29.05.2012

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