SERIE A CLUBS PLEDGE TO COMBAT RACIST ABUSE IN ITALY

SERIE A CLUBS PLEDGE TO COMBAT RACIST ABUSE IN ITALY

All 20 Serie A clubs have made a united pledge to combat Italian football’s “serious problem” with racism because there is no more “time to waste”.
The top-flight clubs said they could “no longer stay silent” after several recent incidents in which Serie A players have been racially abused.
“It’s a problem we have not done enough to combat over the years,” the clubs said in an open letter on Friday.
“We, the undersigned clubs, are united by our desire for serious change.”
Earlier this month, Brescia’s Mario Balotelli called fans who shouted racist abuse at him “small minded” and “imbeciles”.
Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku said the abuse he suffered in September, when Cagliari fans made monkey noises after the Belgian scored a penalty, showed the game was “going backwards”.
The Sardinian club were later cleared of racist chanting, leading the head of anti-discriminatory body Fare to say that Italian football authorities and their disciplinary systems to combat racism were “not fit for purpose”.
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