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Dec 5, 2022 · Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. For Lilian Thuram, a former French professional soccer player and 1998 World Cup champion, history is both the source of racism and a weapon against it. After playing professional soccer for 17 years, Thuram, 50, became an accomplished author and social justice activist, establishing the Lilian ...
Nov 5, 2021 · Since retiring in 2008, Thuram has been heading up the Lilian Thuram Foundation, the purpose of which is to educate people about racism – not only about its ill effects but about its past and the way that the identities that underpin it came to be. “Racism is a cultural phenomenon,” Thuram says. “It has been constructed.”
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Oct 14, 2021 · This realisation dawned on the former French footballer, World Cup winner and anti-racism activist Lilian Thuram while he was engaged in talks with the white French organisers of a proposed...
Jan 5, 2018 · Confronting reality: Lilian Thuram on standing up to racism and why Fifa needs to do more - SportsPro. Lilian Thuram won some of soccer’s most coveted titles, but the Frenchman remains...
Mar 15, 2021 · 03/15/2021. French World Cup winner Lilian Thuram experienced racism when growing up and has seen his son Marcus deal with it in the Bundesliga. But the former defender believes that...
Nov 16, 2021 · France legend Lilian Thuram says the only way football authorities will be forced to take racism seriously is if players walk off the field when suffering abuse. Thuram said to CNN that the...
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