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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Former Germany player Bastian Schweinsteiger said Friday he was talking about Ivory Coast\u2019s style and not its players when he spoke last weekend about what his country\u2019s national team could expect from its African opponent during their group match.<\/p>\n

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Schweinsteiger called it, \u201cA bit African football, a bit unorthodox, a bit wild, a bit perhaps also not so conditioned by tactics\u201d and added it was unpredictable. Ivory Coast coach Emerse Fa\u00e9 slammed those comments on Thursday as being racist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking about football, not about people,\u201d Schweinsteiger said in a statement released by German broadcaster ARD, the same outlet on which he made the remarks. \u201cIt\u2019s a football analysis. Nothing more and nothing less. \u2026 I certainly didn\u2019t mean to offend anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some commentators criticized his comments as playing into racist stereotypes. Sports commentator Patrick Schnitzler wrote on Instagram of \u201cracist prejudices that we are all passing on unnoticed,\u201d and journalist Philipp Awounou, who is Black, wrote in Der Spiegel magazine that the characterizations played on old racist tropes rooted in colonialism. Awounou said he did not think Schweinsteiger is racist.<\/p>\n

Germany went on to defeat the Ivory Coast 2-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Fa\u00e9 then led Ivory Coast into the World Cup knockout round for the first time in its history with a 2-0 win over Cura\u00e7ao on Thursday. Fa\u00e9 said after the game he hoped Schweinsteiger had made a \u201cclumsy statement that\u2019s not necessarily reflective of what\u2019s in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe could call it racist, if we were calling a spade a spade,\u201d Fa\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n

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J\u00fcrgen Klopp, who is working for broadcaster Magenta, seemed taken aback when asked about Schweinsteiger\u2019s comments by Deutsche Welle in a conversation with journalists in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you want to carry on the subject,\u201d Klopp responded before breaking off the interview. \u201cNo, no, I have no chance. I have no chance to answer this question. Everybody likes it so you bring me in this situation. It\u2019s not my job that everybody likes it, but this is a serious subject, and I don\u2019t even know what is appropriate to say. For African people it\u2019s one thing, for other people it\u2019s another thing, and I\u2019m not here.\u201d<\/p>\n

ARD executive Axel Balkausky defended Schweinsteiger\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe summarized his experiences and observations from recent games,\u201d said Balkausky, ARD\u2019s sports coordinator. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about individual people but rather a footballing assessment. I can\u2019t detect any form of racism in that or in his choice of words. If the coach of Ivory Coast, Emerse Fa\u00e9, were to speak directly with Bastian, his suspicions would be quickly revised, I am sure of that. Perhaps an opportunity of that sort will arise in the course of the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

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See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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