Seedorf: tv should not focus on violence

Footballers should be an example to others, journalists should temper their rabble-rousing reporting and schools should spend more time on sport, Dutch soccer international Clarence Seedorf said at a conference on sport and integration in Rome on Monday. ‘We all want a better world and more serene football, but that will not happen if TV focuses on the swearing, violence and spitting,’ the AD reported the Milan player as saying.

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