Players' union: FIFA has eased up on racism

The 75-year-old Swiss has been widely criticised after saying in two television interviews on Wednesday that there was no racism in football and that players involved in racist confrontations on the pitch should settle their differences with a handshake at the end of the match.

FIFPro said it had worked well with football's governing body to battle racism until the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but that since then FIFA had gone quiet on the issue.

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