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Berlin (dpa) - Former national player Dietmar Hamann sees improvements in the fight against racism in football, but also room for further progress.
"The players now have a different understanding of what can and may be said," said Hamann on the pay-TV channel Sky.
"It's a different situation today, we're sensitized to the topic - and rightly so."
Overall, you have "come a step further", but certainly not yet where you want to be.
Hamann emphasized that players are “role models for society”.
"We have the mandate and the responsibility to be a role model," said the 47-year-old.
The control committee of the German Football Association (DFB) had previously announced that it would investigate the allegations of racism after the Bundesliga match between 1. FC Union Berlin and Bayer Leverkusen on Friday evening (1-0).
"There is a suspicion that the Berlin player Florian Huebner could have racially insulted his Leverkusen opponent Nadiem Amiri, whose parents come from Afghanistan," said the DFB on Saturday.
At the beginning of the week, appropriate investigations are to be started.
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Amiri has already accepted an apology from Hübner.
Regardless, Union manager Oliver Ruhnert rejected the allegations.
"He did not say so," said Ruhnert on Saturday.
There will be no sanction against Huebner by the club.
According to Amiri's team and DFB colleague Jonathan Tah, the words "Shit Afghans" are said to have been uttered in the direction of the German national player Amiri.
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