2023-06-20 07:21:13
Ritzing (Austria): New Zealand football team abandons friendly football match midway through accusations of racial abuse by Qatar player. Dramatic events unfolded yesterday during the Qatar-New Zealand friendly football match in Austria. New Zealand was leading 1-0 at the break of the match, but after the break, the New Zealand players refused to go on the ground and the match was abandoned.
In the first half of the match, New Zealand player Michael Boxall was racially abused by the Qatar player, according to a statement released by the New Zealand football team. The New Zealand team stated in a statement that the team did not enter the ground in the second half in protest against the fact that the authorities did not take any action in the incident. Marko Stamenic gave New Zealand the lead in the seventeenth minute of the match.
The match held in Ritzing, Austria was refereed by the Austrian referee Manuel Schattengraber. New Zealand skipper Joe Bell left the ground after expressing his objection to the referee who did not take action on racial abuse while leaving the ground for the break. Boxall, a New Zealand star who was a victim of racial abuse, is also the captain of the American Major League Soccer team, Minnesota United. Boxall is a player of Samoan heritage even though he is a New Zealand player. The New Zealand Football Players Association also supported the New Zealand team’s decision to walk off the ground in protest at racist abuse against Boxall.
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Earlier, the match between the Republic of Ireland Under-21 team and the Kuwaiti team was also abandoned halfway through due to racial abuse. The Irish team, which was leading 3-0 in the match, left the ground without completing the match after the Kuwaiti player used racial abuse against the Irish player.
Last Updated Jun 20, 2023, 12:51 PM IST
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