Euro 2025: England players and substitutes stand in support of Jess Carter

The EURO 2025 semi -finals against Italy began on Tuesday after the UK players decided to stop taking knees of lions.

The backup line stopped on the contact line before starting a solidarity show with his teammate Jess Carter, who has been subjected to online racist abuse since the start of the tournament.

He did not participate in their Italian colleagues.

When it was asked if Italy could make a gesture in the match, the defender Cecilia Salvai said that they are “willing to do everything open and necessary.”

Stade De Geneve Sung Carter’s song in the song and the squad number of 16 to support the defender of the 16th minute applauded.

On Sunday, the UK players announced that they would not take knees before the start of the matches after the start of the matches after explaining that the Carter players were racially exploited during the tournament.

The decision was questioned by the mouse, the president of the organization of the International Discrimination of football.

In 2016, the lions adopted the anti -racist gesture popularized by American footballer Colin Kaepernick, and during the 2022 Euro 2022 and 2023 Women’s World Cup, but in a statement, “We and football explained that we need to find another way to overcome racism.”

On Monday, the UK manager Sarina Wiegman told BBC Sport to Roan to Roan: “To get knees, that’s not enough. We’ve done it for a while. The effect is not good enough, not as big as we think.

“When this is a form of racism, we thought we had to do something else, something different, so we don’t take the knee.”

Wiegman said that Carter “wanted and existed”, but Gotham FC defender was chosen among the substitutes of Esme Morgan, who was preferred in the central defense with Captain Leah Williamson.

Former British striker Ian Wright, who spoke to ITV before the match, said that if he is still playing his directory, his decision to make it was “personal thing” and the gestine felt “always forced to people”.

The winner of the match on Tuesday will play Spain or Germany in the final at Basel’s St Jakob-Park at BST on Sunday, June 27th.