Romelu Lukaku: Monkey chants a form of ‘respect’ and ‘not racist’ say Inter Milan fans group
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A band of Inter Milan fans assert Cagliari supporters were revealing Romelu Lukaku that a kind of”esteem” when they targeted monkey chants in him Sunday.
Lukaku, who transferred was subjected to the racist abuse after scoring the winner.
An announcement from Inter enthusiast group Curva Nord said”Italian fans aren’t racist” along with the abuse had been gamesmanship.
It included:”We are sorry you believed what occurred in Cagliari was racist.”
The open letter to the Belgian forward, printed on the fans’ Facebook webpage, also stated:”You have to know that Italy isn’t like many other north European nations where racism is a real problem.
“We understand that it could have seemed shameful for you personally but it is not like this. We use several’ways’ only to’help our teams’ and to attempt to create our opponents nervous, not for racism but to mess them up.
“Please consider this mindset of Italian fans as a kind of respect for the fact they’re afraid of you to get the goals you might score against their teams and not because they hate you or they are racist.”
Lukaku, who stated the match is”going backward” in the wake of the misuse, stood and stared at lovers behind the goal – in which the chants had originated from – following scoring the winning goal.
Inter shield Milan Skriniar – that was spotted putting his fingers to his lips into the Cagliari lovers – at a interview condemned the lovers’ activities in support of his team-mate.
The abuse received by Lukaku has been the incident where a player has been abused by Cagliari fans by the pitch.
In a statement, Cagliari stated it intends to”identify, isolate and ban those ignorant individuals whose shameful activities and behaviours are entirely contrary to those values that Cagliari Calcio ardently promotes in all their initiatives”.
Season Everton’s Moise Kean suffered similar abuse when playing Cagliari for Juventus.
Serie A decided to not sanction Cagliari for their fans’ racism – despite admitting their actions were”reprehensible”.
After abusing Blaise Matuidi, another Juventus player the former year Cagliari fans were called out – however, Italian football chiefs did not take any action.
At 2017, Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari walked off the pitch after being racially abused – but was banned by football authorities because of his protest.
It follows events by which Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford along with Paul Pogba, also Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham were mistreated on social networking.
After penalty misses this year the former United team-mates Pogba and Rashford of lukaku were equally targeted on social websites.
Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma was racially abused on Saturday after a personal goal against Sheffield United, a 35, after missing penalties while Reading’s Yakou Meite and Abraham both obtained messages on the web.
England women’s supervisor Phil Neville stated footballers should”boycott” sociable networking and Chelsea boss Frank Lampard said social networking firms required to do more.
Last month, Twitter stated it would meet nightclubs and campaigning organisations to demonstrate that the”proactive work” being done to tackle misuse.
Cagliari Calcio rejects what occurred in the Sardegna Arena.
The team underlines – more – its intent prohibit, isolate and to identify behaviors and those dumb individuals whose black actions are against those values that Cagliari Calcio strongly promotes in their own endeavors. Every day.
Cagliari v Inter Milan was the ideal occasion to love and revel in positive cheer, not dealt against anybody: actually inside our”Curva Futura” – the very first dedicated industry in Italy built to host children – both Inter Milan and Cagliari fans enjoyed a beautiful evening together in the title of their passion for soccer.
Cagliari Calcio does not need to silly stereotypes and underplay what occurred endorses the worth of its own people from all the stadium sections, however rejects the outrageous charge and the Sardinian people, which are unacceptable.
Total solidarity to stronger commitment and Romelu Lukaku toward annihilating among the plagues that impacts our planet generally and football.
However, as we’re aware that engineering is insufficient, we think our dedication requires a true support by the remainder of the football stakeholders: starting from all the true fans, to each of the stewards from the stands, from security and police agents, passing into media and also through Lega Serie A and FIGC. Cagliari Calcio is requesting you a solid help to win a battle that involves everybody.
No-one excluded.
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