‘More must be done in football’ – Lucy Bronze on preventing racial abuse | OneFootball

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·20 de julho de 2025

‘More must be done in football’ – Lucy Bronze on preventing racial abuse

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England defender Lucy Bronze calls for greater action in “football and society” to end racial abuse, following a statement from teammate Jess Carter.

Bronze has shown support for her England teammate after Carter released a statement on social media, speaking up about the racial abuse she has received online throughout Women’s Euro 2025.


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Carter has said that she hopes her speaking out will help others who receive racial abuse “deal with it”, as the FA and UK Police work to locate the individuals responsible.

“A lot of players have known that this has always been an issue in football,” Bronze said. “But for Jess especially to come out, we all know her as a person and she’s so strong and so tenacious so she almost doesn’t want to put out anything she’s going through on someone else.

“To hear her talking about it yesterday, we’re all just so disappointed in so-called fans writing out these messages. For Jess herself, she probably wouldn’t put it out to the world but it’s obviously difficult for her to go through.

“All the players, the FA and the staff are here to support her. We had meetings last night about it and we’re all in full support of Jess and for any players going through racial abuse in this tournament.

“We know it’s not just Jess as well. It’s just disappointing we still have to sit here in this day and age, and to see Jess go through that herself.”

England have released a statement announcing that they will stop taking the knee prior to kick-off to show that more needs to be done to stop racial abuse in football.

“The decision was driven by the group and certain individuals more than others,” Bronze added. “Is the message as strong as it used to be? It’s about putting another statement out there to say it is something that’s still a problem.

“More needs to be done in football, more needs to be done in society. What that is right now, I don’t exactly know. It’s something we want to work towards and this is a small step to try to make change.

“I would like to say I’m very confident in our security team and they are whole-heartedly intent on finding the people involved in this. We are working with the police.

“We have very good security who are trying to find the people and hold people to accountable. It’s one of the ways we can stop this.”

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