The recent derby between Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava brought, in addition to direct events on the lawn, also happening in the stands. Unfortunately, after the traditional anti-Semitic outburst, the disciplinarian SFZ intervened and Trnava faces punishment. However, the Czech Republic is no exception, and even beyond the Morava River there is one conflicting cry that continues to emerge.
Czech football club AC Sparta Prague he is also known for his great support for his fans, which has become even more evident in recent years. At Letná, the differences between the clubs and their possible appeal have long since been made, because the management of the “Reds” managed to achieve a situation where the Sparta fan go to Sparta and not to the opponent. It no longer selects based on the attractiveness of the given match.
But even that does not mean that the most successful Czech football club will not struggle with the inadequacy of some supporters, and Sparta has been disciplined after that. The club is trying to move forward in this direction as well, and it also relates to the unfortunate “Jude Slavie” shout, which still appears at Sparta matches and especially in derbies with a rival big city.
Sparta does not want to teach anyone. He knows about his problems
After recently 173rd league derby between Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava (0:1)after that the club from “Little Rome” they recognized the penalty from the Disciplinary Commission of the Slovak Football Association for several anti-Semitic shouts against Slavs, SPIRIT.sk they spoke to Czech Sparta Praha, how they try to fight with their “noise” and their troublesome fans at Letna.
“We are not a club that wants to teach someone lessons, because we ourselves know our problems. We can only share how we look at the given problems, how we try to solve them, and how we succeed. “ said for SPIRIT.sk communications director of Sparta Prague Achdřej Kasik. “We know we have our problems. We will see them and try to work with them,” he added.
At the same time, Kasík pointed out that similar problems do not pass by Western European leagues and only concern Central Europe: “Even in England, you have voices that are very aggressive and inappropriate, and in short it’s a football-related phenomenon. Many times this is completely irrational behavior, and not everyone behaves the same way in their personal lives as they do in the football stadium. This too needs to be emphasized, but it certainly in no way diminishes the toxicity of some calls. “
news-item-description">It repeats itself again and again as an inappropriate development that everyone knows should be sealed in the vault of the past, but we’ll let it go at least. We clap loudly, cheerfully and with her. And what? After all, he is a “white Jew”. What after the fine and any meaning of these words at all.
The fact is that Sparta Praha is one of the clubs in the Czech Republic that pays fines for fan riots quite regularly, but the competent members of the club try to fight the residence “I would like to say that our main goal is not to pay less in taxes. Of course, it would be better, but we understand that we have an impact on the whole of society. More so because in these years we are sold out at every game. Our brand attracts, attracts attention, so we try to make it appear as positive as possible, but we have to admit that we have also made some mistakes historically. At the same time, we are aware that we are not only influencing the world of football,” explains Sparta’s communications chief.
“The aim is to inform ourselves, not only within the club, but also to the public, that if there are certain toxic expressions in the stadium, that our brand does not recognize with it and does not agree with it. Hedging against it is step number 1, and it can be done immediately. We do that too and have long stated that we do not identify with certain expressions,” continued Kasík, who also said that, regarding shouting “jude Slavie”, he apologized to the Eden club directly at the Czech disciplinary commission meeting, because it was inappropriate and over the line.
Sparta’s measures against curbing the controversial tendency
In the Czech Republic, only the shout “Jude Slavie” is usually heard in the derby between Sparta and Slavia Prague, and it is just as inappropriate as the one from the biggest Slovak football derby, in are they singing about a “white-skinned Jew with broken bones.”
“Anyway, when we’re talking about the social impact, I’m much more saddened by the chaos, and I find it very toxic even towards monument II. great war,” Ondřej Kasík’s comments on the “jude Slavie” chant, according to which, however, it is even more dangerous if the given chant goes beyond “football bubble” and enters the -all social text.
news-item-description">The first third of the highest football competition in Slovakia is behind it and each match or moments has its own story that is signed by the result of the meeting itself or fades away even several days later. Symbols remained important even after the most famous football derby in Slovakia, which he talked about in the show Striedame! ŠPORT.sk football editor Ján Jasenka.
“In that case, when you understand that ‘Jude’ was a designation for people who had a very difficult life, ended up in concentration camps, lost their families and loved ones, it is even more dangerous. “ pointing to Kasík and later explaining how Sparta Prague is trying to fight, or to draw attention to the inappropriateness of this shout.
“Last year, the book Národ Sparta was published, which was created for the 130th anniversary of the founding of our club and contains 130 stories about people related to Sparta. One of them is the life journey of a Jew, a rabbi and a person who had a very good connection with Sparta, he was a fan of Sparta all his life, but when he started to hear the cry of ‘Jude Slavie’ in the stands, he didn’t he came to Letná again, which I think is a very strong message,” claims Kasik and adds: “It can have a very educational effect on people when they see a concrete example of a person who once lived here and what effect he had on them.”
Stolperstein and ban number 88 on jersey
Sparta was also near the stadium when the name Stolpersteina, i.e. “the stone of the disappeared”, which are placed all over Europe in front of the houses of the victims of the Holocaust and the regime Nazi. The one near the Letná stadium symbolizes the memory of an important lawyer, politician and intellectual Evan Sternwho was also a big fan of Sparta and was murdered by the Nazis in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942.
“It is the responsibility of one of our youth teams from the academy to take care of this stone and to clean it and inspect it from time to time. We are trying to educate and point out, also in the historical context, that the Jewish community also participated in the history of Sparta, and that the cry of ‘Jews of Slavia’ is not only poisonous, but also inappropriate.” again Kasik.
Sparta it is even forbidden printing the number 88 (the neo-Nazi code for the Heil Hitler salute, editor’s note) on a jersey in the fan shop, which she did after an incident where one of the fans made a jersey with the number 88 and the inscription “jude Slavie”. The club protested this, condemned the actions of the fan and took away his right to buy a season ticket for home games.
“Some things you can influence over the years, but there are things that can have a positive impact for generations to come. “ he pointed to the steps Sparta are gradually taking to get the controversial chant out of the stadium and out of the fans’ mouths. “If it is no longer an issue in 15 years and this clamor disappears completely, no one will remember the steps we took today, but it will be seen as something of a mean path gradual and natural,” added at the end for SPIRIT.sk Sparta Prague communications director Ondřej Kasík.
2024-10-29 16:30:00
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