Every year, EveryOne Group, with an international jury made up of human rights defenders, awards the Eddie Hamel Prize to an athlete or sports club that has contributed to the elimination of prejudice both in their own field and in society as a whole: racism, xenophobia, homophobia.

Eddie Hamel was an American Jewish football player who played ring-wing for Ajax in Amsterdam from 1922 to 1930. An undisputed champion, he was the first of many Jewish players to play for the Dutch club. After the German invasion of the Netherlands, the champion was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and was later murdered by the Nazis in the "death factory" on April 30, 1943.

The award is now in its tenth edition. " The prize is a symbolic recognition," say the organizers of EveryOne, "but it has always been appreciated by the athletes who received it".

The jury voted to award the prize to the footballer Sulley Muntari, central midfielder, most recently for Italian club Pescara.

In a BBC interview, the ex-Portsmouth player claims racism is "everywhere and getting worse", and encourages players to go on strike to combat it: "If I had this problem today, tomorrow or the next game I would go off again," he said. "And I'd recommend it to others. If they are not feeling it they should walk off.”

Sulley Muntari says Fifa and Uefa “are not taking racism seriously."

Roll of honour

2008 - Thierry Henry and Rio Ferdinand

2009 - Mario Balotelli, Bănel Nicoliţă and Matthew Booth

2010 - Internazionale Milano

2011 - Georges Alexandre and Dewey Bozella

2012 - Orlando Cruz

2013 - Harlem Globetrotters

2014 - Warwick University Rowing Club

2015 - Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI)

2016 - Yaya Touré (Menzione Speciale)

2017 - Sulley Muntari

In the picture, Sulley Muntari