Allegation of racism against Nati commentator Ruefer

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Big fuss about Nati commentator Sascha Ruefer (51). The SRF man is said to have made a racist statement about the national captain Granit Xhaka (30) during the filming of the series “The Pressure Game”, who accompanied the Swiss national team at the World Cup in Qatar. “Granite Xhaka is a lot of things, but he’s not Swiss,” Ruefer is said to have said in an interview with the film crew, according to “WOZ.”

The statement was supposed to have appeared in a rough cut of the film, but was later removed after intervention by Ruefer or SRF. “During the rough cut, a statement was inadvertently but misleadingly used in a different context and thus falsified Sascha Ruefer’s entire quota,” the broadcaster said.

No one denies the fateful quote

A confirmation of the quote, which came from a lengthy conversation with Ruefer about the footballer and Granit Xhaka’s personality, has not yet been confirmed, nor has there been any confirmation of the context in which the statement was made.

Blick asks SRF and Ruefer, asks around the film crew and national team. There is no denial from either side – although that would be the simplest solution for all involved if the matter were resolved so quickly. So did Ruefer really say those words?

Is there a context that saves Ruefer?

The question that now arises and that will probably even help determine Sascha Ruefer’s professional future: is there a context in which the sentence “Granite Xhaka is many things, but he is not Swiss” cannot be taken as a racist statement?

The fact that Ruefer and Xhaka have repeatedly run into each other in recent years is well known and well documented. In the context of the “double eagle affair”, the SRF commentator harshly criticized the Basler, and he was also harsh on Xhaka at the 2021 European Championship and the 2022 World Cup. “The relationship is not like saying that we are together at go on vacation,” Ruefer said in The Pressure Game. “But as a person and as a footballer, I treat Granit Xhaka with great respect.”

Source : Blick