Serie A players and Coaches will step on to the field this weekend with a red mark on their faces in a campaign fighting violence against women.
This is the second year of the initiative, which has also been embraced on social media over the last week.
Players posed with their wives and partners, the women wearing red lipstick and the same colour smeared on their cheeks.
The issue of violence against women is becoming a national emergency in Italy with two shocking incidents this week alone.
Serie A players and Coaches will step on to the field this weekend with a red mark on their faces in a campaign fighting violence against women.
This is the second year of the initiative, which has also been embraced on social media over the last week.
Players posed with their wives and partners, the women wearing red lipstick and the same colour smeared on their cheeks.
The issue of violence against women is becoming a national emergency in Italy with two shocking incidents this week alone.
Over the last few days, a man defied a restraining order by setting fire to his ex-wife’s house, killing their 11-year-old son in the blaze.
Another Italian man travelled to Spain so he could throw acid in the face of his former girlfriend.
Fabio Pisacane, del @CagliariCalcio e sua moglie Maria Rosaria si uniscono alla campagna di Lega Serie A e WeWorld Onlus per dare #unrossoallaviolenza sulle donne#SerieATIM pic.twitter.com/3zZgDlLt44
— Lega Serie A (@SerieA) November 23, 2018