The storm stirred up in Germany after the racist survey by ARD television shows no signs of calming down. National team coach Julian Nagelsmann spoke out, followed by Joshua Kimmich, and now captain Ilkay Gundogan. The Barcelona midfielder condemned the aforementioned survey, which revealed that every fifth German believes there should be fewer colored players in the national team.RACISM AGAINST İLKAY GÜNDOĞAN (33) 🇹🇷 FROM FC BARCELONA 🇪🇸!The German national TV channel ‘ARD’ 🇩🇪 did a survey in which 17% (!) of the Germans claimed to be unhappy about having a Turkish 🇹🇷 captain in their national team.🤐 @IlkayGuendogan#DFB #DFBTeam #EURO2024 #Racism pic.twitter.com/XJ1nbzASDx— Turk Scout (@ScouTurk) June 3, 2024 “I think all of that was unnecessary to do; I really don’t see the point. It doesn’t benefit anyone at this moment” Gundogan said. A part of the survey also directly concerned him. The question was as follows: “Is it a shame that the captain of Germany is of Turkish descent?” Just over 17 percent of respondents circled – yes.”Does that surprise me? Absolutely not. You just need to look a little more closely at political events, and everything will become clear to you. It’s sad that there are still people who engage in such things, who devise such surveys… The timing is what troubles me the most, not the results. The person who conducted or approved it doesn’t have good intentions. Maybe it’s some kind of message” he said.There are few ways to fight the despicable racism and Nagelsmann has shown us howFrom ARD television, they tried to defend themselves by saying that it is a completely normal process and that sometimes “you have to examine how prevalent racist attitudes are”, but Gundogan refused that explanation.”We’re all relatively intelligent people; we all know that racism exists worldwide. And it shouldn’t be encouraged. It will probably continue to exist in the coming years, but we all knew that even without this survey. That’s what it’s about” the player concluded.Germany without Goretzka and Hummels in EURO 2024Let’s also recall how Julian Nagelsmann reacted a few days ago:”What they did is crazy… To ask such a question on television… I was shocked when I saw it! We’re playing the European Championship in our country; we should all be together, focus, and try to succeed. I hope I never have to read about such crappy surveys again. That was pure racism! We need to wake up urgently! What they did was absurd. We should be working on unity, not dividing ourselves in such a way. This was just counterproductive. We will work together to achieve great things, give our all so that the whole of Germany stands behind us, regardless of what has happened” said German‘s coach. In the lineup dictated by Julian Nagelsmann for the EURO, there are five colored players: Beni Henrihs, Antonio Rüdiger, Leroy Sané, Jamal Musiala, and Jonathan Tah. Also, the “pure-blooded” Germans are not Gundogan, Andrih, Pavlović, Undav, Anton so the coach will have to do some talking in the dressing room to ‘erase‘ this scandal in players‘ minds before EURO starts.##NAJAVA_MECA_8143852##
