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Toure brands FIFA 'complacent' after racism taskforce closed

Manchester City star Yaya Toure says FIFA's decision to close a racism taskforce fills him with doubt about the governing body's intentions.

Yaya Toure has accused FIFA of complacency after football's governing body closed a taskforce examining racism in the game.

The Fifa Taskforce Against Racism and Discrimination was established in 2013 by then-president Sepp Blatter, but doubts persist about its success two years away from a World Cup in Russia - a country in which Toure himself was the victim of racist abuse during a match against CSKA Moscow in 2013.

FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura said the taskforce had "clearly fulfilled" its mandate at the Soccerex convention in Manchester on Monday.