On Thursday, Serie A announced Inter will play two league games at the San Siro behind closed doors and that the 27-year-old Koulibaly had been given a two-match ban. The Napoli coach pointed to Koulibaly’s dismissal in the 80th minute as the game’s turning point, suggesting the defender had been severely “shaken” by the abuse. “The red card determined the result. We were pushing towards the end but we were affected by going down to 10 men,” Ancelotti told the Napoli website. “It’s a shame because three times we asked for the match to be suspended for the racist chanting… Read more »
(CNN)Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti says the next time a member of his team is racially abused he’d be happy for the Serie A side to stop playing.
Ancelotti was speaking after his side was beaten 1-0 by Internazionale in Milan on Boxing Day in a league game that was marred by racist chanting towards Napoli’s Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly and fan violence before the match in which a 35-year-old man reportedly died.
27 dec. 2018 Players targeted with racial abuse is becoming an all too familiar scene in Italian football. The latest incident took place at the famous San Siro stadium on Boxing Day, targeting Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly. Manager Carlo Ancelotti says the referee ignored his three requests to suspend the Serie A game against Inter Milan despite Koulibaly being subjected to racist taunts. The French-born Senegal defender was eventually sent off in the game, which Napoli lost. The 27-year-old has previously been the target of racial abuse in Italy. Pavel Klymenko of the anti-discrimination body, Football Against Racism in Europe, says… Read more »
On Thursday, Serie A announced Inter will play two league games at the San Siro behind closed doors and that the 27-year-old Koulibaly had been given a two-match ban. The Napoli coach pointed to Koulibaly’s dismissal in the 80th minute as the game’s turning point, suggesting the defender had been severely “shaken” by the abuse. “The red card determined the result. We were pushing towards the end but we were affected by going down to 10 men,” Ancelotti told the Napoli website. “It’s a shame because three times we asked for the match to be suspended for the racist chanting… Read more »
(CNN)Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti says the next time a member of his team is racially abused he’d be happy for the Serie A side to stop playing.
Ancelotti was speaking after his side was beaten 1-0 by Internazionale in Milan on Boxing Day in a league game that was marred by racist chanting towards Napoli’s Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly and fan violence before the match in which a 35-year-old man reportedly died.
27 dec. 2018 Players targeted with racial abuse is becoming an all too familiar scene in Italian football. The latest incident took place at the famous San Siro stadium on Boxing Day, targeting Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly. Manager Carlo Ancelotti says the referee ignored his three requests to suspend the Serie A game against Inter Milan despite Koulibaly being subjected to racist taunts. The French-born Senegal defender was eventually sent off in the game, which Napoli lost. The 27-year-old has previously been the target of racial abuse in Italy. Pavel Klymenko of the anti-discrimination body, Football Against Racism in Europe, says… Read more »