The Finnish ministry of education allocated 1.3 million euros in 2015 compared with 1.2 million euros the previous year to support migrants in sports, according to YLE. Despite such sums of money migrants and their children still face obstacles like discrimination and racism in sports. Discrimination today in Finnish sports appears as exclusion, name-calling, insults, even violence…
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Futsal Club Persia of Finland explains why its players walked out of game in protest
Migrant Tales had the opportunity to speak to Futsal Club Persia, the futsal gym football team that got expelled from the league by the Finnish Football Federation for walking out of a game in protest. The saddest matter about the whole affair is that there is now one less team comprising of migrant and New Finn…
FC Persia gets suspended by the Finnish Football Federation after players walk out of game in protest
FC Persia got suspended from the Finnish indoor football league for walking out in protest during the middle of a match on Sunday when it was playing against a team from Pori. FC Persia captain Omar Razaki was quoted as saying on Turun Sanomat that the players had had enough of poor and partial refereeing….