Mike Maignan, Dino Zoff also takes sides.
Mike Maignan, even Dino Zoff takes a stand
What happened in the final minutes of the first half of Udinese-Milan on Saturday night, when the Rossoneri players walked off the field for a few minutes in solidarity with Mike Maignan, the victim of racist insults, is still causing discussion. The solidarity è towards the French goalkeeper è transversal and came even from those who did the same job as him, excellently, many years ago, such as Dino Zoff.
"It was a deplorable thing, these are not things to do,” the Italian soccer legend told Ansa in no uncertain terms.
In soccer as in life I have heard so many boos. In my time different things happened, I who was a goalkeeper was near the stands and I saw everything coming on the field. I heard all kinds of insults, but at least they were for everyone" he then added, with bitter irony.
Maignan è vented again the day after the game, expressing all his regrets on social media: "It wasn't the player who was attacked. It was the man. It was the family man. This is not è the first time this has happened to me. And I am not the first one this has è happened to. We have done press releases, advertising campaigns, protocols and nothing è changed" he wrote on Instagram.
Expressions of solidarity came from all over the soccer world: from teammates to rivals, such as Inter Milan, via national teammates, such as Kylian Mbappé: "You are a long way from being like Mike Maignan – wrote the 2018 world champion on X – We are all with you, Mike. Still the same problems and still no solution. When è too much è too much! No to racism".
