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Boateng and Altidore on new anti-racism panel

The group, launched by FIFA President Sepp Blatter last month is being chaired by Jeffrey Webb, the president of CONCACAF, the confederation responsible for football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

English Premier League referee Howard Webb, Theo Van Seggelen, the head of the global players union FIFPro, Marcel Mathier, chairman of FIFA's disciplinary committee and Claudio Sulser, former chairman of FIFA's ethics committee, are also on the 12-man panel.

"We have seen that fines achieve little, but point deductions and exclusion from competitions could be more effective measures," he said.