It is not the first time that the AfD has stirred anger with comments on soccer stars with an immigrant background. German politicians and a top newspaper editor denounced a far-right politician on Friday after she suggested on Twitter that the national soccer team's loss to France was the fault of players with an immigrant background. Ralf Stegner, a politician with the left-leaning Social Democrats, responded to von Storch with: "Pure foolishness". Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief of mass-selling Bild newspaper's online edition, said von Storch was a "dumb racist". The comments were later deleted from von Storch's Twitter account, but that did not stop a storm of online protest.

Source: Thanhnien News July 08, 2016 11:26 UTC