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The UEFA president qualifies violence as "a cancer, the true cancer of football". (Photo: European Parliament)

Hooligans should not be able to travel freely, Frattini says

The EU has joined the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in its call for tougher measures against violence in sports, suggesting that in extreme cases of violence, perpetrators should be banned from travelling to matches in other member states.

There is a need to "better coordinate the rules which exist nationally on European bans to free movement, because of course you should not be able to exploit free movement of people to export violence to [other countries'] sport stad...

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The UEFA president qualifies violence as "a cancer, the true cancer of football". (Photo: European Parliament)

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