Coach to keep his job despite calling a Nigerian footballer “a black idiot”

Marko Nikolic, the coach of Slovenian league leaders Olimpija Ljubljana, will keep his job despite making a racial slur against one of his own players, Blessing Eleke. He called him a “black idiot” for celebrating too long after he scored an equaliser against Zavrc on Sunday. 

Nikolic said he made an emotional reaction as it meant there was less time for a winner and never intended to offend the player racially. He added: “I spoke to Eleke and he said he understood my reaction because emotional outbursts of this kind can happen.

His words: “I apologise for my reaction generated solely by the rush to score the winning goal after getting a 92nd-minute equaliser and I thank the team for not judging my act as racist.”…. I shld jst av jst called him an idiot witout adding d ‘black’ to it.