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Lee Wilmot

Callum Hudson-Odoi and Antonio Rudiger send messages to Chelsea transfer target Jadon Sancho

Bundesliga footballers have been showing their support for George Floyd over the weekend.

Rioting has been rife across America for the past six days after Floyd died during a police arrest on May 25, with videos emerging on social media of one police officer kneeling on the black man's neck for more than eight minutes.

The four police officers involved in the tragic incident were fired, but violence has broken out across America.

Bundesliga football was back for its third weekend of action since the coronavirus outbreak and a number of players showed their support for Floyd during their fixtures.

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Weston McKennie, the United States international, wore an armband calling for justice in Schalke's defeat to Wolfsburg on Saturday afternoon while Borussia Monchengladbach's young attacker Marcus Thuram knelt in protest after finding the net against Union Berlin earlier on Sunday.

And Englishman Jadon Sancho followed suit on Sunday evening, revealing an undershirt that bore the message "Justice for George Floyd" after scoring the first of a hat-trick against Paderborn.

They were Sancho's first goals since the German league resumed.

Sancho is widely expected to be the subject of much transfer speculation in the summer window, with Chelsea and Manchester United both keen on signing him.

And two Blues players showed their support for what Sancho had done on their Instagram pages on Sunday night.

Antonio Rudiger, who has previously tried to convince Sancho to join Chelsea, and Callum Hudson-Odoi both added to their Instagram Stories with screengrabs of Sancho showing off his Justice for Geogre Floyd shirt.

Hudson-Odoi simply put two fist emojis on his post, while Rudiger wrote: "respect," with three clapping hands emojis.

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