FIFA adds voice to protests over Floyd's death

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BERN (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has joined sports leagues, teams and players around the globe to express solidarity amid outrage over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police custody in the United States.

The National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball Association have put out statements about the racial injustice that sparked protests across the U.S. but Major League Baseball has yet to make an official statement.

Across those leagues the loudest support has come from the players, including Los Angeles Lakers' Lebron James, New Jersey Devils defenseman PK Subban, Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl-winning quarterback Patrick Mahomes and New York Yankees slugger Gincarlo Stanton. It added that applying the laws of the game was the responsibility of competition organisers, such as domestic leagues, who FIFA said"should use common sense and have in consideration the context surrounding the events.

"@ICC and all the other boards are you guys not seeing what's happening to ppl like me? Are you not gonna speak against the social injustice against my kind..." he wrote in a series of tweets.

 

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