Andreas Tetei: “It hurts to be called” monkey “on the court”

Andreas Tettei remembered the incident in which he fell victim to racism in Kifissia’s clash with Volos.

Her player Kifissia – who struggles as borrowering in Panetolian – spoke to Lifo and described, among other things, his experience of racism prevailing on the stadiums.

Tetei is 24 years old. He was born in Athens, his parents are from Ghana and Sierra Leone. He grew up in the hive. He calls her “home”. Fokionos Negri was not just a street for him. It was his first stadium, there he got his first fans. There he learned to kick the ball among children from India, Albania, Georgia. No one was asking “where are you from?” Or at least so he believed.

“When someone calls you monkey … it hurts, it’s ugly”

The 24 -year -old striker said in an interview, among other things: “The scene in the game with Volos is something I don’t like to discuss. It is something that saddened me very much. When someone calls you monkey … it hurts, it’s ugly. I tried to forget it. People were calling me to support me, but they reminded me of it. It is very annoying that the first thing they comment on for me is my color, it has become tiring. It’s funny to talk about my color and you have a player with the same color team, you show since you don’t respect me you don’t even respect your team player. Many times I answer, I say ‘respect me, I have come to play football’.

The incident

Recall that after the end of the match for the 22nd Stoiximan Super League matchof the season 2023/24between Kifissia and Volos In “C. Cretan ”, Andreas Tetei He denounced Cosmotetv’s camera that during the first half he accepted racist attack From the bench of the guest team. In particular he had emphasized that by his Volos bench someone called him “monkey”on the occasion of a mark.

He commented that he has heard this for a long time, stressing that he was teased. “I would like to say first that one of the opposing team’s bench called me ” monkey ”, I had a long time listening to it and really teased me so I went to the referee straight away.”he said.

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Source: Lifo