Patrick Vieira celebrates his African identity while criticizing football's lack of diversity in management | CNN

Patrick Vieira celebrates his African identity while criticizing football’s lack of diversity in management

For others, it conjures an image of a player at the heart of a French national side that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. To the younger generation, he is now one of the up-and-coming modern managers emerging in the Premier League. But Vieira wants to remind the world that he was born in Senegal and is proud to be African.

“The door is closed and the door is closed because of the color of the skin or because of your religion, or because you are a woman, that has to change.” The Premier League said that their No Room For Racism initiative, “outlines a series of commitments and targets to promote equality, diversity and inclusion and increase opportunities across the game.

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