On December 21, the Italian international pillar Cherif Traoré (28 years old, 10 caps as international) denounced in his Twitter account instagram that a day before he had received a rotten banana wrapped in a gift exchange that team members carried out anonymously on the eve of last Christmas.
“Not only is it shocking, but what hurt me the most was seeing most of my teammates laughing. As if it was normal”then denounced the player from the social media.
“I am used to, or rather have had to get used to, putting on a brave face every time I hear racist jokes, but what happened was different.”he claimed.
His club, which at all times reiterated its “firm condemnation of all expressions of racism”, explained that the entire squad and the coaching staff apologized to I brought.
In his statement, the FIR specified that in order to define the sanction of Ivan Nemer it was considered “the desire (of the player) to clarify what had happened, the apologies presented to his teammate, the recognition of the damage caused with his behavior to the image of Benetton Rugby, to that of Italian rugby and to that of sport in general, as well as the exemplary behavior that the athlete always had on and off the pitch during his career”.
“Racism never had and will never have any role in my life, just as it shouldn’t have any role in anyone’s life (…) I come from a multicultural country like Argentina, where cultures have intermingled for more than of a century”, recalled Nemerquoted in the same statement.
Source: Ambito
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