Raheem Sterling intends to talk with the FA and the Premier League this summer about combating racism.
The Manchester City and England player has led the fight off the pitch to tackle racism in football this season and called out incidents of racial abuse against him and fellow professionals.
Sterling criticised the media's coverage of black players in December, saying newspapers were helping to 'fuel racism', and the 24-year-old spoke in further depth on the issue as part of a wide-ranging interview and Q&A at Wall Street Journal's 'Future of Everything' festival on Tuesday.
If I can get to speak to the FA and people in the Premier League and see how we can look about doing things better in the future for sure I will be there in person to try and do that.
Raheem Sterling
"With football you can get caught up in training every day and games every two to three days so you don't really have a lot of time to be out speaking to people," he said.
But in my off-time, holidays if I can get to speak to the FA and people in the Premier League and see how we can look about doing things better in the future for sure I will be there in person to try and do that."
'English culture partly to blame'
Sterling condemned the racist abuse directed at England team-mates Danny Rose and Callum Hudson-Odoi during their European Qualifier victory in Montenegro and has reiterated his desire for tougher punishments to be given when fans are guilty of racism towards players.
"There need to be stricter punishments," Sterling said. "If I go to a football game and I support Manchester United for example I do not want to be the person that lets my team down by saying silly remarks in the stadium.
"If your team is going to be deducted nine points from them winning the league you are not going to say these racist remarks.
"Fining someone or fining a club £5,000 or fining a fan £300 doesn't do anything."
He added: "It is partly English culture on a Saturday to go out early and get ready for the game and start drinking so a lot of these people are kind of drink by the time they get there. But it is getting a lot better than it used to be."
SOURCE: sky sports news
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