Mom insults child of color. The team in the field with their faces painted black

Sometimes it happens that parents give a bad example to small sportsmen (Ansa archival photos)

THE little soccer players of the Aurora Desio (in the province of Milan) next Saturday will play their games with their faces painted black. It is the club's response to the phrase "Negro di m …." which a mother of a baby soccer player from Sovicese turned to a 10-year-old boy during a race of the "chicks" championship. The denunciation of the shameful episode started yesterday from the company "Aurora Desio" which has sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora informed of the incident, the regional councilor Martina Cambiaghi, the mayor of Sovico Barbara Magni.

«The game – the company explains – was the one in which the chicks born in 2009 of Aurora Desio against Sovicese were facing each other: a simple youth soccer game, which should be just a moment of friendship, sharing, fair play. Instead, for no reason, it warmed up. But the worst came when a small Aurora player, black in color, felt insulted with that shocking phrase coming from the host parents. The voice was feminine and was heard by other comrades and other adults ".

An episode of racism that comes after, Last month, an 8-year-old boy from Agrate playing basketball had been abused in the same way. Same fate happened last spring to a Melzo athlete.

The story led to immediate position taken by regional councilor Martina Cambiaghi (League) which condemns the incident and asks for "serious measures against violent and aggressive parents, without excluding the possibility of the" Daspo ". In the case of verbal intemperance, even a single insult is enough, the assessor wants me to click "the expulsion of the parents and in the most serious cases the removal of all the public present ». To this must be added a moment of re-education for the parents themselves. "Before being able to set foot on a grandstand – the councilor proposes – parents, especially those who have been guilty of bullying, should attend fair-play courses held by sports associations".

The Regional President of the Crl Giuseppe Baretti has asked for the recognition of the rude mother. "So – assures Baretti – we will proceed to the eventual Daspo. Although this match is not directed by a federal referee, everything becomes more difficult ».