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Racism in Swedish Football and Society

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Just as Allsvenskan had been late to introduce African and other foreign imports into the league, the Swedish professional game had been almost equally slow to assimilate members of the country’s new non-Nordic immigrant communities. As a result, Swedish elite football has remained very ethnically and racially homogenous until relatively recently. The first players of color and/or of non-Nordic origins did not appear until the 1970s, and the latter only established a major presence in the top Swedish division during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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