Hellas Verona, the ultras leader: "Balotelli can never be completely Italian". Salvini: "An Ilva worker is worth more than ten Mario"

“In my opinion Balotelli is Italian because he has the Italian citizenship but it can never be completely Italian ". The day after i racist choirs against the Brescia striker and his reaction – with the ball thrown towards the curve of theHellas Verona – the head of the Verona ultras, Luca Castellini, thus intervenes to the microphones of Radio Cafe. Words in freedom to belittle the facts of Bentegodi but at the same time draw a line, speaking of nigger players and ironic about Segre Commission. While on Sunday evening, the club president also, Maurizio Setti, tried to throw water on the fire denying the choirs and defending the ultras of Hellas who, according to him, “have a nice way to do to make fun of people, but racism does not exist ". Balotelli himself then, on Sunday evening, closes the case by thanking his profile Instagram all those who have expressed closeness, colleagues and "real fans". The leader of the League also intervenes on the issue, Matteo Salvini: "A worker Ilva worth more than ten Balotelli ”.

Speaking to Radio Cafe, Castellini confirmed the line: "We have one identity culture of a certain type, we are a supporter that is irreverent, which takes for the c … the bald player, the one with long hair, the southern player and the color player, but don't do it with political instincts or racists. This is folklore, everything stops there ”. Then he added: "As with the Milan two years ago we exulted, we clapped Mario's hands – it's his version – In fact the referee, when Balotelli threw the ball, didn't even realize why. And you should wait for the decision of the sports judge. You will see that the Verona curve will not be sanctioned. Those howls they are four people who have been heard only by those who made the video. Balotelli heard them in his head ".

The Brescia striker, he added, "is a finished player, we have one too Negro, who scored, and we clapped his hands ”. While the former Nice striker “was pushed by someone or something to do that buffoonery ". Castellini then ironically commented on the Segre commission: "Next year Balotelli will no longer play and will go on TV to do the first woman against racism. He came to to insult it's at defame Verona for its image. We applauded a strong black player who scored a goal. A Negro? Sure, are there any problems? The Segre commission he comes to ring at the bell if I say negro? ".

Balotelli responds to Castellini's words with some stories on Instagram in which, following the statements of the head ultra, he comments: "Here my friends no more football. You are implying social and historical situations greater than you, little beings. Here you are going crazy, wake up ignorant, you are ruin". And then he concludes by recalling his appearances and his goals with the national team: "But when Mario did, and I guarantee you he will still do, goals for Italy there was good, didn't he?"

The striker from Brescia then publishes a video shot from the curve of Hellas just at the moment of his reaction. While he has the ball between his feet, between the whistles, some fans can be heard playing verse of the monkey: "The people of this curve who made the sound of the monkey: be ashamed, ashamed – Balotelli writes – Shame on your children, wives, parents, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Shame". And then he adds: "The" people "so go radiate from society, not just football. Just swallow it now. Just leave it alone. That's enough. That's enough".

After the coach's words Ivan Juric, also the number one of Hellas, Maurizio Setti, denied the choirs against Balotelli: “Tutti we have not heard anything. Unfortunately, I know how it works, but it was the first thing when I arrived eight years ago in Verona. I can only say that the Verona fans are details and have a nice way to do to make fun of people, but racism does not exist and if it exists we are, of course, the first to condemn it ", he explained to Sky Sports. Did Balotelli have heard anything? Very well, but there is a problem; I repeat, if two people make that i journalists they take inspiration to make important articles on racism, they must do it in other places, not in Verona. This is out of the question ".

For Setti, racism in football "is a topic a bit wider and it would take a long time" and the formulas to fight it "are very simple". That is: “Being able to identify the single people is to radiate them from football. This, perhaps, would help to ensure that others do not do certain gestures or say certain phrases ". Then he went back to Balotelli's choirs: “I would just like to say that I know Mario, he is a sensitive boy but, surely, today, as the game was, as was the situation in Brescia, we say that, perhaps, something has gone beyond it. We were playing, there was not anything, but it is clear that if an important player makes a gesture like this, he is picked up more by journalists. If a kid did it, or Salcedo on the other hand, he would start playing again a minute later. So, I believe that we are growing something that, I repeat, today in Verona is absolutely not successful. I'm sorry that even a single one has done something like that, if there was one. But today we can say absolutely nothing about the behavior of our fans ".

With a post on Instagram, Super Mario he replies to the president of the Scala family and then closes, thanking all those who were close to him. "Thanks to all the colleagues in the field and not for the solidarity I had with me and all the messages received from you fans – we read in the post that follows the video of his outburst in the field – Thank you very much. You have shown that you are true men, not like those who deny the evidence". The post received the support of many football players, including that of Kalidou Koulibaly, the defender of Naples that last season was the focus of another episode of discrimination during a match played against theInter.

On the issue, however, the political leader of the Northern League, at a press conference in the Senate, which, in response to a question about the Verona case, wanted to emphasize the condemnation of anti-Semitism is racism, but did not take the part of the Brescia striker: "Con 20 thousand jobs at risk, Balotelli is my last concern – he replied – It is worth more a Ilva worker than ten Balotelli, we don't need phenomena ".

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