CHINA-GERMANY: TIBETAN PROTEST DISRUPTS FOOTBALL
A round of friendly matches in Germany with China’s Under 20 national team was cancelled on November 24, 2017, after a group of protesters unfurled Tibetan flags at a game last week in Mainz, causing the Chinese team to walk off the pitch. In a response to the outrage from the Chinese side, Reinhard Grindel, President of the German Football Association, defended the right to free expression and said: “It has been made clear to the Chinese federation that when you play in Germany you also have to deal with the fact that anyone can express their opinion.”
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