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World Service,06 May 2011,25 mins

Racism claims hit French football

World Football

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Alan Green reports on the story that's rocked French Football. Leading figures including Laurent Blanc, the national team coach, have been accused of trying to implement racial quotas for non-white players in the country's youth academies. We have reaction from Paris--and we'll speak to France's most capped player--turned anti-racism campaigner, Lilian Thuman. Plus, chaos in Greek football after a season of crowd violence....We talk to the Head of the Players' Union, Stelios Giannakopoulos, who was part of the Greek side that won Euro 2004. And we hear about the Italian top flight club that's going through presidents quicker than Real Madrid change managers.

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