Jude Bellingham questions whether authorities 'care' about racist abuse directed at Black footballers

By Darren Lewis, Sana Noor Haq and Aleks Klosok, CNN

Updated 0758 GMT (1558 HKT) May 31, 2022

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(CNN)Jude Bellingham is just 18, but he's already reached the brutal conclusion that racist abuse is something as a Black footballer in the 21st century he is going to be confronted with.

«After (the) majority of games I'll get a racist message in my Instagram inbox,» the Borussia Dortmund midfielder and England international tells CNN's Darren Lewis.«The first couple of times I remember putting on my story and I received quite a good reaction in terms of people saying that