Dutch Euro 2012 squad face 'monkey chants' in Poland

The captain of the Dutch national team says his players were subjected to racial abuse at a training session in the Polish city of Krakow this week, just days before the Euro 2012 football tournament was due to begin in Poland and Ukraine.

Several hundred people reportedly targeted black members of the squad with "monkey chants" during an open session Wednesday at the Stadion Miejski, the home of Wisla Krakow.

"It is a real disgrace especially after getting back from Auschwitz [the Dutch squad had visited the concentration camp on Wednesday] that you are confronted with this," Mark Van Bommel, the Dutch captain, told a press conference late Thursday.

"We will take it up with UEFA and if it happens at a match we will talk to the referee and ask him to take us off the field."