German Soccer Federation (DFB) president Bernd Neuendorf took a transparent stance towards anti-Semitism on the Julius Hirsch Award ceremony.
“If you already know our previous, you can not query the existence of the state of Israel,” Neuendorf instructed the media on Sunday.
He considers it “a shame that sure issues are being articulated once more right here in Germany and that persons are not conscious of the historical past for which we’re accountable.”
The DFB is “clearly on the aspect” of the Jewish group, Neuendorf pressured.
Yearly, the DFB awards the Julius Hirsch prize to golf equipment, establishments and people who use soccer to advertise democracy, human dignity and fight anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination.
“Each submission (to the award) is a bit of hope for us in troublesome occasions,” Neuendorf mentioned.
“It is about respect, about togetherness, about every little thing that soccer ought to stand for. We all know that that is sadly not the case all over the place in our society.”