(MENAFN) Anti-discriminatory body Fare's leader declared the message enclosing "racist references" which Russia club Spartak Moscow released on social media to "show a shocking level of ignorance".

The club posted on Twitter footage of African American athletes who were training in a hot temperature, their caption of the video read "see how the chocolates melt in the sun".

The chief spoke about the matter saying "racism is one of the biggest issues Russia faces in the year they host the World Cup. References like this show how some minorities are seen by some in the country."

Powar continued "for Russia's biggest club to tolerate and then celebrate racist references of this kind is wrong. They were sanctioned for Islamophobic chanting recently but clearly the message has not reached the players or the club management."

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