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Elfsborg take home Allsvenskan title

Borås football club Elfsborg drew 1-1 with Åtvidaberg on Sunday afternoon to win the title in Sweden's top football league, the Allsvenskan.

Elfsborg take home Allsvenskan title

The Borås club nabbed the gold in the tie game, finishing on top of the ladder and narrowly edging out second place Malmö FF, which lost to AIK at Råsunda on the same afternoon.

“It’s incredible to win the gold again,” said team captain Anders Svensson to the TT news agency.

“It’s damn fine. The whole team has had a strong season and fought the whole way.”

Over 16,000 fans turned up to the Borås Arena in western Sweden to watch the game.

Stefan Ishizaki scored Elfsborg’s only goal of the match, finding the back of the net in the 30th minute and sending the home crowd into a thunderous frenzy.

However, the team found out during the game that they didn’t need much more to win the gold.

“Just into the second half we knew it was over,” explained Svensson.

“AIK led 2-0 so we could relax. But we relaxed too much so they were able to equalize. But the last half an hour was just a joy,” he told TT.

In the 76th minute, Viktor Prodell netted one for Åtvidaberg, but it wasn’t enough to see off the champion team and the game finished at 1-1 to the delight of the home crowd.

Celebrations for Elfsborg erupted in Borås after the game, with several thousand diehard fans braving the chill to celebrate in the town square, Stora Torget.

The win marks the club’s sixth title, with their last win in 2006.

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RACISM

VIDEO: Spain’s La Liga reviews video of boy racially abusing Vinicius

Spain's La Liga on Monday said it was reviewing a video of a child making racist insults towards Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior during the 2-2 draw with Valencia at the weekend.

VIDEO: Spain's La Liga reviews video of boy racially abusing Vinicius

“We’re in the process of studying and analysing the facts from a legal standpoint to see what we can and should do,” La Liga sources said.

In a video published by a journalist for ESPN Brasil, and picked up by Spanish media, a boy sitting in a woman’s lap can be heard calling Vinicius a “monkey”.

https://twitter.com/GravesenFumado/status/1764242481984491822

The Brazilian scored twice for Madrid as his team recovered from two goals down at Mestalla on Saturday.

Vinicius raised his fist in a “Black Power” salute after the first of his two goals at a ground where he was racially abused last season. Valencia subsequently banned three people from the stadium for life.

The 23-year-old has become a symbol of the fight against discrimination in Spanish football after suffering racist abuse on many occasions, and he was jeered repeatedly by home supporters on Saturday.

Jude Bellingham was sent off after the final whistle against Valencia for protesting after the referee blew the final whistle right before the England midfielder headed home what he thought was the winning goal.

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