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Mr President, Mr Frattini, I should like to pick up on two points. It strikes me that a much stricter regulation is required on the purchase of young players. We have recently read in the press that players of six and seven years old have been bought by two clubs, Real Madrid and Manchester United. I feel that, in this case, the purchase of young players has gone way too far, even if this is, of course, sanctioned by the families.
I believe that transferring players under the age of 16 should be banned and that priority should be attached to training clubs. Every country has perfectly good training schools, and we must make sure that they are able to keep their young players up to a certain age. Nor can we any longer accept the fact that young African players are brought to the EU on full charters and that only a few are taken on and all of the others completely abandoned.
My second point is about acknowledging what is happening in our stadia – in Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands and elsewhere – and acknowledging the acts of xenophobia and racism that happen there. I feel that we need to address this issue. This is a question for the Council, although it also concerns the Commission, in my opinion."@en1
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