Yaya Toure says racist abuse has the power to \u201cbreak\u201d players and wants to see tougher sanctions brought in. Manchester City midfielder Toure, who suffered racist abuse at CSKA Moscow last season, was speaking as Fifa launched a system where match observers will monitor discrimination incidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have been in the situation where there have been monkey chants and it\u2019s difficult to deal with that,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you hear something like that it hurts you and breaks you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ivory Coast international, who turns 32 on Wednesday, said existing punishments do not go far enough. \u201cYou need to give them a radical sanction \u2013 paying a \u00a320,000 fine is not enough, you need to do more,\u201d said Toure, who was also subjected to racist abuse on social media in November.<\/p>\n
The new system will identify, and send observers to, high-risk matches among the 900-plus qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n
All 64 games at the finals will also be monitored. The system is being overseen by European anti-discrimination body Fare, whose executive director Piara Powar said: \u201cIf there is evidence of discrimination this will be passed to Fifa and there will be associations who will be banned or play behind closed doors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be some pain as a result of this process but without that pain people will not really understand how they should be tackling these issues.\u201d
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