Fshocking comments from Brescia president Cellino on the sidelines of the Lega Serie A meeting in via Rosellini, who, answering a question about Balotelli, said: “What’s going on with Balotelli? He’s black, he’s working to lighten up but he’s having a lot of difficulties”. “I took him because I considered him an added value, he has to give answers on the pitch, not on social media. But he’s not the scapegoat for Brescia’s difficult situation”. The Lombard club tried to tone it down on their website: the sentences were “evidently a joke meant as a paradox and clearly misunderstood”. Brescia then added: “Cellino’s joke (“he’s black, he’s working to lighten up”, ed.) was released in an attempt to downplay excessive media exposure and with the intent of protecting the player himself”. “Who called me a racist? If you write all the bullshit I say, you will never stop writing. I don't have to exonerate myself for something I don't believe in. Do you know what the tragic thing is? It's that you don't know what the f.. to write anymore”: Brescia president Massimo Cellino, at the end of the Lega Serie A meeting, thus returned to his statements from a few hours earlier about Mario Balotelli. “If I clarify – he replied, in the press room, to those who asked him to clarify – I will do even more damage. Good people know me”.
Article published on November 25, 2019 - 18:34
