With the help of other spectators, the perpetrator was identified during the game and handed over to the police. He faces at least a stadium ban. “Thanks to everyone for helping. “It’s important, even outside of football, that you set an example,” said Awoudja. The 26-year-old black central defender scored the equalizer a good ten minutes after the incident. In the end, Erfurt won 2-1.
Luckenwalde‘s President Dirk Heinze showed great incomprehension for the one among 843 fans in the Werner Seelenbinder Stadium. “Something like that doesn’t belong in the stadium and especially not here in Luckenwalde,” he told the “Märkische Allgemeine”. “We distance ourselves from any racism and want nothing to do with anything like that. That’s a given.”
Luckenwalde (eight points) is currently in last place in the fourth-tier Northeast Regional League after 15 match days. Lokomotive Leipzig (36) leads the table, followed by Halleschen FC (29), Rot-Weiß Erfurt (25) and FC Carl Zeiss Jena (24).
