Balotelli returns to the national team? Minister for the FIGC: 'Read harsher against racism' | First page

Vincenzo Spadafora orders to react against racism in football. The Minister of Sport wrote to the FIGC president, Gravina, announcing "a legislative initiative that reinforces the disciplinary framework connected to these behaviors". It will be discussed in a "table open to the Football Association". Which today meets in the Federal Council. Previously the same Spadafora had spoken of societies, which "too often have minimized and defended – for sloth, connivance or fear – the extreme fringes of their own fans. In recent months, something is changing, but there are still many steps to take. At Hellas Verona, I ask you to condemn what happened and take the necessary measures, also in the light of the words of your boss. I also ask the mayor of Verona, who denied that there were racist choirs and blamed Balotelli for having launched a media pillory against the city, to review the videos and to distance themselves from those choirs, precisely to protect the city community it represents " .

Hellas Verona has made itself available to the Verona Police Headquarters to identify the authors of the racist buu (15 or 20 people at most according to Digos and the federal prosecutor's office) and intends to ban the ultra neofascist leader Luca Castellini for life from the Bentegodi stadium.
For this today the sports judge Gerardo Mastrandrea will freeze the penalty for Verona, which otherwise would not have gone beyond a fine considering the scarce diffusion, asking the Federal Prosecutor for an additional investigation to verify the effective collaboration of the president's club with the identification of those responsible.

Meanwhile, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy coach Roberto Mancini is thinking of summoning Mario Balotelli to the national team for the double engagement with Bosnia (15 November) and Armenia (18 November). In any case, his will be a technical and not a symbolic choice. Possible calls also for the defender Cistana (Brescia), the midfielder Castrovilli (Fiorentina) and the attacker Ursu (Bologna).