LONDON
Crystal Palace supervisor Patrick Vieira mentioned on Friday it’s obscure why he’s the one black supervisor within the prime flight of English males’s or girls’s soccer.
The former Arsenal captain was named alongside gamers Bukayo Saka, Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford this week on this 12 months’s Football Black List, which recognises the efforts of black figures working in numerous areas of the sport.
A report revealed in October revealed that 43 per cent of Premier League gamers are black, however Vieira stays the one supervisor.
“It troubles me a lot,” mentioned the Frenchman. “It’s difficult for me to get it and to understand it, and I think that just shows there is still a long way to go.”
The Szymanski report, commissioned by the Black Footballers Partnership, additionally discovered that 14 per cent of these with the highest stage teaching qualification are black.
However, black folks made up simply 1.6 % of these in government, management and possession positions in soccer.
Queens Park Rangers director of soccer Les Ferdinand mentioned these figures confirmed the Football Association’s Diversity Code – a directive launched in 2020 to sort out racial inequality – had failed.
