Giants take focus distance: Speechless at home!

a number of Italian clubs take on Twitter distance from a front page on the newspaper Corriere dello Sport. the Front page with the headline 'Black Friday'

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
06 December 2019 Friday 05:00
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Giants take focus distance: Speechless at home!

a number of Italian clubs take on Twitter distance from a front page on the newspaper Corriere dello Sport.

the Front page with the headline 'Black Friday' has stirred anger on social media, in which users accused of having discriminatory undertones.

the picture shows the former Manchester United profiles Romelu Lukaku and Chris Smalling, who today represent respectively the Inter and AS Roma. Inter and Roma meet on Friday in Serie A.

Inter are one of the football clubs, who have taken distance.

- Football is passion, culture and brotherhood. We are and will always be against any form of discrimination, write Inter on Twitter.

the Front has also got Fiorentinas communication unit to the keys. In a lookup writes the club 'speechless' and adds an emoji, which holds for the face.

as late as last week, wrote all of the Series A-clubs in an open letter, that they have done too little to combat racism in Italian football.

- We must publicly acknowledge that we have a serious problem with racism. It is a problem, as we have not done enough to combat in recent years.

Images of the players are subjected to racism in Italian football has been seen all over the world in this season, and it fills us with shame, it sounded in the letter.

recently got an episode with the Brescia striker Mario Balotelli great deal of attention.

In a battle between Verona and Brescia in Serie A threatened the 29-year-old profile with to leave the fight, when he had heard racist chants directed against him.

the Incident came less than a day after the judge interrupted a match between Roma and Napoli, because the roman fans showed so-called 'territorial discrimination' against travellers napolitanere.

the President of The International Football federation (Fifa), Gianni Infantino, called in september for a stake in Italian football, after Fiorentinas defender Dalbert Henrique had been the victim of racism in a battle.

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