Hey there everyone, welcome to Football with Grant Wall. We've got a good

episode for you today with an interview with National Soccer Hall of of Fame or Marcello Balboa that you'll want to hear. Before that I'll be speaking to Taylor Rockwell

of the Total Soccer show for 10 minutes about the soccer weekend, but we're a community here on this podcast and for now I want to start

with a segment on what we're experiencing right now. I took heart from Westin McKinney and Marcus Turram this weekend.

There are so many other names I could mention, but McKinney and Turram are part of our soccer

community. In the midst of the global protests over the police murder of a black man, George Floyd, Minneapolis, these two soccer players made sure they were heard.

McKinney, an American, wore a justice for George Armband during Shalka's game against Berter Bremen.

In Turam, the son of the French World Cup winner, Lillian Turam, took a knee after scoring for Gladbach

to honor an American man thousands of miles away.

The fight against generations of systematic racism in America and abroad knows no borders,

and it made me think back to a night a few years ago when

Lillian Turam joined me for a public discussion about racism and soccer at New York

University. Lillian Turam has devoted his post-playing career to campaigning against racism in sports, and

he spent that night explaining a lot of things.

Stories about the racism he experienced in his career in Italy and Spain and France,

actions that everyone can take in their daily lives to combat the tacit acceptance of racism.

And if there was one point that Turan made that night that stood out

more than any other, it was that the onus isn't on the victims of racism to

bear the burden of fighting racism.

It's on white people.

When Ramello Lukaku was abused by racist fans in Italy,

it's not on him to fight it.

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