Udinese were allowed after racist insults towards Maignan

This Tuesday, Serie A allowed the Udinese with an obligation to play the next match at their stadium behind closed doors after the racist episode suffered by the Frenchman on Saturday Mike Maignangoalkeeper of Milanand caused the duel to be suspended for five minutes.

The Sports Judge agreed to punish the club “with the obligation to play one match behind closed doors,” the club announced. A series.

It’s the next game Udinese compete with ‘Blueenergy Stadium’, and therefore he had to play without an audience, it was before the monza next February 3.

The sanctioning body emphasized the referee’s good application of protocol by stopping the match and notifying the stadium’s public address system so that the racist insults uttered by some of the stadium’s fans stopped. Udinese.

In addition, he emphasized the club’s cooperation with the authorities to facilitate the identification of racists.

However, he noted that “during and after the events, and despite 2 public announcements, no clear sign of distancing from such intolerable behavior by other supporters was reported (an element that may relevant as a mitigating circumstance. ).”

This Monday, the Udinese He reported that he met the first of them and that he was banned from the stadium for life.

The racist episode took place this Saturday, during a meeting between two of the Udine (north), where the goalkeeper warned the referee in the first half hour, on several occasions, that he was receiving racist insults until he got fed up with the situation.

The goalkeeper went to the locker room and the rest of his teammates followed him inside. The stadium’s public address system asked the choirs to stop.

Four minutes later, in the 38th minute of the first half, with the score 0-1 in favor of the ‘rossoneri’ and some of the Udinese players demanding an explanation from their own fans, Careful and the other players Milan They returned to the field and the referee continued the match.

The referee warned that, in the event of further racist insults, the match would be permanently suspended.

Careful After what happened, he published a strong statement this Sunday and called all the authorities complicit for not doing anything about it.

Since the events, Italy has poured in messages of support for the cause and condemnation of what happened. The goal has received public support from the Italian Football Federation, the A seriesthe Italian Government, several players and clubs and Udinese, which also condemned the events in a statement.

Furthermore, the mayor of Udine He offered the goalkeeper honorary citizenship of the city.