Celtic hero Henrik Larsson has hit out against racism and revealed how it impacted his own life. The Hoops legend told of his personal experiences as a youngster and backed calls to stamp out racism in football.
Henrik, 48, told how his family deliberately picked a Swedish surname despite his father being born in the Cape Verde Islands.
The Swedish striker also suffered racism at school as he was growing up because the majority of other children were white.He said: "Hating people because they are black, I mean, I don't understand that."I will never understand it."When you're good at something people tend to forget your colour."My father is from Cape Verde Islands and instead of taking my father's name they decided I would take my mother's.
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