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Schalke chairman Clemens Tönnies will resume his duties on Thursday following a three-month break after making racist comments in August.The Bundesliga team said Wednesday that Tönnies’ scheduled comeback is “a return that the club’s committees expressly welcome.”Tönnies had stepped down in response to anger and condemnation of comments he made at a public meeting in Paderborn on Aug. 1 Cheap Mexico Soccer Team Uniform , when he said tax increases to fight climate change were wrong and that it was better to finance 20 power plants a year in Africa.“Then the Africans would stop cutting down trees, and they would stop making babies when it gets dark,” Tönnies said in comments first reported by the Neue Westfälische local newspaper.The German soccer federation said it concurred with the general consensus that the comments were racist, but that Tönnies “was able to convincingly show that he was not a racist during the in-depth hearing and questioning.”“Irrespective of its classification as racist or discriminatory www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/portugal , the sentence used by Mr. Tönnies is a violation of the German soccer federation’s principles,” the federation’s ethics committee said.Many Schalke fans had called on the 63-year-old Tönnies to resign despite his apology for the comments, which were widely condemned.Tönnies, the Schalke chairman since 2001 Cheap Russia Soccer Team Uniform , had been speaking as head of the Tönnies Group, a meat-processing food giant with about 16,500 employees that specializes in the slaughter of pigs and cattle. The group posted revenues of 6.65 billion euros ($7.45 billion) last year. UEFA has been asked to consider moving this season’s Champions League final out of Istanbul because of Turkey’s military action in Syria.UEFA declined to comment Wednesday about a letter sent from the Italian sports minister questioning if it was appropriate to continue letting Turkey host the biggest club game in world soccer in May.“We know well that the seriousness of what is happening in Syria will not be resolved with this act but we are all aware of the importance (political, media www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/spain , economic, cultural) that belongs to one of the most important sporting events in the world,” the letter states, according to Italian news agency ANSA.The Ataturk Olympic Stadium was picked by UEFA last year over the Stadium of Light in Lisbon Cheap USA Soccer Team Uniform , Portugal.UEFA vice president Michele Uva told an Italian radio station it was “absolutely premature to talk about sanctions,” though the situation would be evaluated by the European soccer body’s executive committee. It next meets on Dec. 4.Istanbul already hosted the UEFA Super Cup this season. Champions League winner Liverpool beat Chelsea, the Europa League title holder, in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw.Since Turkey began a military offensive in northeast Syria last week Mallory Pugh Jersey , national team athletes from the country have made salute gestures at sports events.UEFA asked its investigators on Tuesday to assess if the Turkish soccer federation should be charged in a disciplinary case. Salutes made by Turkey players after European Championship qualifying games against Albania and France in the past week could breach rules prohibiting political statements at stadiums.