Fans of Moscow "Torpedo" outraged the signing of a black football player

The fans of the Moscow Torpedo, playing in the championship of a professional football league, condemned the club leadership for the signing of the 19-year-old black defender Erwing Botak-Ichoboma. Moreover, the color of his skin did not hide their racist views of the fans of the car factory.

Botaka -Ivravoma is a Russian of African origin. He was born in Pushkino near Moscow and brought up at the Torpedo school, but later moved to Lokomotiv, where he played in the youth championship.

“Dear leadership of FC Torpedo, since you consider it permissible to come to our house, in our family, and do not respect our traditions and rules, then we reserve the same right! We will see who will be better from this!”, The group of the most radical ultras of the black and white West 5 made this statement .

Fans of Torpedo do not hide cave views and are consistent in their position. Racist elements are contained in their screamers, symbolism and fan art. “There are black in our colors, but only white in the ranks,” says one of the motto.

The Moscow club was previously repeatedly punished by the closure of the stands in connection with the racist behavior of the fans.

Vasily Petrakov, head of the torpedo fan club, noted that he had not heard anything about the negative mood of the West-5 regarding the black player. “On Thursday, we will have a meeting with the fans, and there we will listen to their position,” he said to Sport Express .

Recall that in 2017, Torpedo had a new leadership - as president, Elena Elentseva replaced Alexander Tukmanova, who ruled the club for many years. The owner of Torpedo was businessman Roman Avdeev. Under the new leadership, the club returned to the stadium on East Street.