Cagliari won’t withdraw support for Carlo Tavecchio. “His comments were an own goal, not a red card offence.”
The front-runner for the role of FIGC President is facing numerous calls to step down after his description of the need for work permits used racist imagery.
Cagliari won’t withdraw support for Carlo Tavecchio. “His comments were an own goal, not a red card offence.”
The front-runner for the role of FIGC President is facing numerous calls to step down after his description of the need for work permits used racist imagery.
“We say that any old Opti Pobà can come here, before he was eating bananas, now he’s playing in the Lazio first XI,” said 71-year-old Tavecchio.
“It was a bad own goal, but not a red card offence,” argued Cagliari President Tommaso Giulini to Tuttomercatoweb this evening.
“Our support was given to a programme for reform. If that programme is not respected, we will make other decisions.
“Tavecchio substantially was not wrong in his basic premise, which is that there are too many foreign players in Italy.”