Petit: I experienced racism in the Barcelona dressing room Barcelona Joined the Blaugrana in 2000

Former Barcelona midfielder Emmanuel Petit has revealed that he experienced racism during his spell at the Blaugrana.

The Frenchman joined the Catalan side back in 2000 and stayed for one season before moving to Chelsea.

"I experienced racism," Petit told RMC Sport. "I lived it in the Barcelona dressing room.

"It may be shocking, but it happened every now and then, although with some players it happened quite frequently."

Petit had also admitted back in 2015 that there an ongoing war between groups of players in Barcelona's dressing room at the time.

"I arrived at a bad moment," Petit noted. "There was a war in the dressing room between Catalan and Dutch players.

"We also had [Lorenzo] Serra Ferrer as a coach, who didn't have enough strength or the necessary charisma to manage the team.

"Nationalism is close to racism. When I arrived they told me not to learn Spanish, to learn Catalan.

"I told them that I was in Spain, and they told me that I was in Catalonia.

"I got fed up with those things. When people identify themselves excessively [with something], they are very close to being racist."