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Gary Neville insists the soccer community should undergo diversity inclusion training after Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani called a friend ‘black’ on Instagram.
The Uruguayan forward’s heroics in inspiring United to a victory at Southampton were overshadowed when he posted a controversial term in Spanish on social media in the hours that followed.
Cavani “sincerely apologized” and said the post “was intended to be a warm greeting to a friend,” but could still receive a minimum three-game suspension after the FA launched an investigation.
But former United defender Neville insists the game itself must also take the blame for Cavani’s position for failing to put him through proper training after hitting a free transfer in the summer, and believes incidents will be repeated until to be implemented.
“We hear the words education and training and yet soccer is still unable to implement a mandatory curriculum for its players, its members and its fans,” Neville told Sky Sports.
‘Why is Edinson Cavani not receiving diversity inclusion training and education the moment he arrives in this country? If we are truly going to eradicate discrimination in this country, it must become part of the curriculum, in school and in sports.
‘Every employer in the country has to go into a diversity inclusion training program and implement and execute it.
“Even to this day, in soccer, we have banners, players who kneel, wave flags in the air and wear badges on their chests, where education and training are. This could have been avoided.
We’re still going to continue to see incidents like this where Cavani reposted that the Instagram story had no idea he was doing something wrong. And in 24 hours he will have to apologize for it. ‘
Asked who is responsible for the implementation of such training, Neville added: ‘The Premier League, the FA, the EFL, the LMA and the PFA. They are all funded, they all have a lot of money, they implement a set of protocols and processes of diversity inclusion that are fixed and that the five buy.
‘We have five different slogans (BLM, Show Racism the Red Card, There is no place for racism, Kick it Out, Players Together) and they can’t even come together in a single campaign on something they should be one in. At least collaborate on important issues that are social.
“Take it out of the game, eliminate discrimination and it has to be done through education and training.
That means players and everyone involved in this game, including us, will receive biweekly or monthly training on including diversity and why people get offended by certain words and why not others. If it offends someone, it’s a problem. ‘
Watford forward Troy Deeney also agreed that education is the best policy to stamp out the problem, but admitted he was “concerned” because he believes the Uruguayan international did not verify his message before posting it.
“It’s never right, no matter which way you look at it,” he told talkSPORT.
“ I think that when you write a message, it is considered, nine times out of ten, that you will review it before publishing it because you don’t want to sound like an idiot.
But at no point did he think that “that’s not right”, that’s what worried me a little.
‘I understand that we now have three-game bans, but I just want to know if the FA is educating the players when they come to this country.
“I don’t think he wanted to insult anyone, but he needs to be educated about what is acceptable and what is not.”
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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