Different strokes? ... Philipp Awounou protects Bastian Schweinsteiger from Emerse Fae

FIFA World Cup 2026 raci*m controversy

Ivory Coast national football team coach, Emerse Fae, unequivocally blasted German football legend Bastian Schweinsteiger as being probably raci*t for saying ahead of Germany and Ivory Coast’s World Cup group stage game that African football is wild and unorthodox.

Despite Fae’s strong stance on Schweinsteiger, sports media personality, Philipp Awounou, who’s in the same professional space as Schweinsteiger is now, rose stoutly to his defense.

According to him, Schweinsteiger, who made his purportedly controversial comments primarily because he’s a media analyst of the World Cup, is definitely not raci*t because of them.

And while it can’t be determined if Awounou is defending Schweinsteiger morally-justifiably or not, and neither can Fae be said to be justified or not to accuse Schweinsteiger of raci*m, one thing is plainly obvious.

Life is indeed about different strokes for different folks hence Fae and Awounou’s vastly differing views of Schweinsteiger’s alleged raci*m.