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Inter, Bastoni makes mea culpa but then attacks: "Absurd threats"

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Alessandro Bastoni on the eve of the Champions League match against Bodo/Glimt is back to talk about Inter-Juventus and the incident that featured him: “I wanted to be here because there has been much more talk than I imagined. I waited a few days to review what happened, to reflect in the heat of the moment. I felt a contact in my arm, which in reviewing I absolutely accentuated”.

“I&#8220m here to take responsibility and also for the attitude afterwards– continued the Inter defender’I will always be the same Bastoni, in more than 300 games I was involved in a similar incident only on Saturday. I have learned how to handle everything, I will be the usual Bastoni”.

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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.

“The’human being must have the right to make mistakes but also the duty to recognize it – are the words of the Nerazzurri central -. So I am here for this. From a personal point of view, the affair has not marked me, I am exposed and accustomed to the media pillory as the president rightly called it. But I am capable of handling”.

Bastoni went on to denounce the threats against his family: “I feel sorry for my wife and daughter, she has found herself wishing illness or death threats that are neither in heaven nor on earth. Just as I feel sorry for umpire La Penna. For people less used to being so exposed. Mentally I am very well, the same thing happened in reverse sides when a penalty was given to Liverpool: my trial of Wirtz… Chivu was consistent” was not done.

Head to the field: “Now I have a great desire to get on the field. I am not compromised either mentally or physically. Bodo? We have seen them, beyond synthetic and cold I think they are a strong team with leg and quality. The conditions will be a pitfall, City lost us here but Atletico lost us in Madrid… It will be different than in Interello, but we don” want no alibi.

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