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The Italian League on Thursday punished Inter with two home games without a crowd, the day after a black day due to racist violence against Senegalese defender Calido Coulibaly and an encouraging death in the country. Inter during a riot that followed the match.
The match between the two teams on the stage of Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro), the supporters of the "apes" hosts of the Senegalese international, facing the critics of the coach Napoli Carlo Ancelotti, who confirmed that his team had repeatedly asked to stop the match, without any response.
In its statement, the Association explained that the sanction for both matches was expressed in the context of "racist and racist expressions (…) against Calidu Culebali" and against "screams of a regional character" against supporters of Napoli.
The Inter was also forced to play a game with a partial closure of the stands.
The club replied that "since March 9, 1908 (date of its creation), Inter embodies integration, hospitality and progress" and that "any form of discrimination" has always been rejected.
"It is for this reason that we are obliged today, once again, to emphasize that whoever does not understand or accept our history, the history of this club, is not one of the we."
The screams have been widely criticized and prompted the player to express his pride in the color of his skin after the match.
"I am very proud of the defeat, especially the abandonment of my brothers (expulsion in the 80th minute), but I am proud of the color of my skin, as French, Senegalese and Naples, "wrote Coulibaly in Italian after the match.
Coulibaly was ruled out for two successive warnings, the first for striker Matteo Bolitano and the second to meet referee Paulo Silvio Matzolini. The result was a goalless draw before Argentinian substitute Lautaro Martinez scored the winning goal in the 90th minute.
Coulibaly will be suspended for two games, the first because of the accumulation of warnings, and the second because of the irony of the referee.
Next time "we will stop"
According to coach Carlo Ancelotti, the coaches have repeatedly asked Naples to interrupt the match to no avail. "We asked three times to stop the match … but the match continued," he told Sky. "He was nervous, his morale was not at his best, he was a very calm and professional player."
It was not good for us and for Italian football, "he said. The solution is there. You have to stop the game, you just have to know when … and if you do not know, Next time we'll stop playing. "
Coulibaly got the support of Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo, who expressed his rejection of "racism and all insults and racial discrimination".
"There is no room for racism in football, nor anywhere else," Egyptian footballer Masri Mohammed Salah told Reuters via Twitter.
Wholesale convictions
Thursday, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, confirmed that he was "ashamed" of the racist sentiments of supporters of Inter Milan and has presented "apologies" on behalf of his city to the defender of Napoli.
Sala said the screams were "shameful, shameful," adding that he would continue to watch Inter's matches but that he would pull out of the field if similar shouts were repeated.
"I apologize to Claudio Coulibaly for my name and that of Milan, who wants to show that we can feel that we are brothers, even in difficult times."
"If Italy can not defeat this cancer, it does not have a future," said Mino Raiola, Culebali's new commercial agent.
"All forms of violence, whether physical, verbal or discriminatory, are a serious factor and we do not accept that such behavior is harmful to football," said Gabriella Grafina, the new president of the Italian Football Federation. .
Serious events also took place off the field on Wednesday night, resulting in the death of one of the 35-year-old Inter fans Thursday morning after a car hit him during the night. An attack by hundreds of Inter on a van for supporters of Naples.
According to the head of the Milanese police, Marcelo Cardona, dozens of players from Inter, but also from Varese and Nice (south-east of France), took part in this "odious" attack, during from which four partisans of Naples were wounded.
Three of Inter's three players were arrested and the governor announced that he would seek to prevent Inter's supporters from reaching the end of the season, as well as six games at the end of the season. stage where the main groups of Nerazzouri supporters gather.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salveni announced that he would invite officials and supporters of the first and second tier clubs next month, stressing that he "would not die for a match "without mentioning racist cheers.
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