Black football player leaves match due to racist chants
On November 11, 2007, in the 84th minute of the Krylya Sovetov (Samara) - Khimki match, the French defender of the Samara team, Serge Branco, left the field of the stadium in Khimki near Moscow, outraged by the behavior of the fans who insulted him with racist chants. “I don’t like being called a monkey. It’s already 2008 on the street and what’s happening is not normal. I love Russia, I like it here, but I don’t like it when dark-skinned people are called monkeys.