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Chivu puts Maradona in the way to defend Bastoni: chaos

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To defend an Alessandro Bastoni who ended up in the eye of the storm after simulating, complete with jubilating Pierre Kalulu’s sending off in the Italian derby, Inter coach Cristian Chivu called into question Diego Armando Maradona and his hand goal against England at the 1986 World Cup.

“Football has been like this for a hundred years – the Romanian coach pointed out.

We need to stop being moralistic. Every Sunday there is such a case, since the days of Maradona who scored a hand goal at the World Cup. No one ever said anything to him. We in Naples were also wronged, and I say this for the first time, but we did not react like that”.

Phrases, those of the former Parma coach, that were not appreciated by the Neapolitan fans, for whom the Pibe de Oro was more than an idol. Social media, within minutes, went on the boil again: if Saturday night they were stormed by supporters of the Old Lady, poisoned with Bastoni, late Tuesday afternoon it was the turn of those of Napoli.

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What happened in Inter-Juventus has triggered an endless series of negative comments in regards to Alessandro Bastoni
In regards to the Inter's footballer and the national team have come criticism from exponents of so many sectors…
"Race distorted by a well-known Nerazzurri stunt-man (any reference to Bastoni is purely intentional)": it was Ezio Greggio who said it.
"After that'episode I changed the channel and started watching a movie. It is not an acceptable stuff" cut short Adriano Panatta.
"He knew he simulated and he did that scene afterwards: it is the ugliest thing, even more dramatic" so Marco Tardelli.
"Such a scandalous thing I haven’t seen since April 26, 1998 Juve-Inter, the one of the penalty not whistled to Ronaldo" said Enrico Varriale.
"Bastoni did four things wrong, not sporting: the simulation, the caution call for Kalulu, the'jubilation after the ejection, and the gesture of the pulled jersey" argued Daniele Adani.
Johnson Righeira ironically suggested awarding him the title of “Sportsman of the Year 2026.”
"His a clear simulation – claims designator Rocchi -. The latest in a long series in a championship in which they try in every way to cheat us.”
"He made a bad impression" the thought of'former Milan player Massimo Ambrosini.
"Bastoni simulated, because that is the correct term to use" stresses former referee Luca Marelli.
"Bastoni not only simulates seriously, but what is seen, what is intolerable, tells how he mocks Kalulu" outrages Massimo Giletti.

"Simulation I have always hated it – lets know the'technical expert Gigi Cagni -. But not only me, all those my generation hated it".
"Bastoni should not be summoned to the national team" suggests the'former Premier Enrico Letta.
"Bastoni cheering when you know the referee has made a mistake and your opponent is desperate is a shameful thing" the opinion of Sandro Sabatini, among others former Inter's press bureau chief.

“Rinse your mouth when you talk about Diego”, “Maradona would never have cheered for the expulsion of an opponent”, “Nobody ever said anything to him because he was the strongest footballer in the world. Do you want to say something to him yourself” among the sentences addressed to Chivu. “Comparing Bastoni to Maradona is like comparing Massimo Boldi to Totò” added a no-longer-young fan of Prince Antonio De Curtis.

English newspapers called the Argentine’s gesture an outright hoax.

In and around London, the episode at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium is still seen as one of the most controversial moments in World Cup history. Maradona died on November 25, 2020. He was 60 years old.

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