Paris Saint-Germain confirm they used racial profiling in recruiting players

PSG say they have launched an internal investigation

Paris Saint-Germain have admitted that for the past five years, the club has used racial profiling as part of its player recruitment process, just hours after a new report that it was part of an effort to limit the number of black players signed by the club, as reported by the New York Times. The charges of discrimination were outlined in a report by Mediapart, who are part of a European investigative journalism group that has used a mountain of hacked documents to create a series of articles on the internal workings of several top European football clubs. On Thursday, Mediapart published scouting reports that it claimed were used by PSG recruiters between 2013 and earlier this year to assess young players; along with evaluating a player’s physical and technical skills, scouts were asked to check a box noting each player’s “origin.” https://twitter.com/WilleRobin/status/1060550145736093697 The club claimed that they had no knowledge of this part of the recruitment strategy. They lay the blame of the form, and the system, on an ex-employee who was responsible for leading a team that recruited players from outside the Paris region.