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Football and hatred on social media Morata is the latest victim “My children are threatened”

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The Spanish striker ends up in the crosshairs for mistakes with Poland “People identify with and understand what they are doing: I go to the psychologist”

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The wave of social hatred that poisons football overwhelms Alvaro Morata. Worse, his children: the twins Leonardo and Alessandro, three years to be completed, and Edoardo, just nine months. The haters do not stop in front of tenderness and innocence, they are not ashamed to wish death to children. And all for a bad performance by dad with the Spain shirt, for a wrong goal or a missed penalty.

“Maybe I didn’t do my job well – the attacker’s complaint in Cadena Cope – and I understand that I am criticized, but people should put themselves in my place, understand what it means to receive threats, which tell you that your children must to die”. Morata reveals that he has not slept after the match against Poland and is confident that he has turned to the psychologist of the national team.

It’s just the last episode. A few days ago Marina Luczenko, wife of Wojciek Szczesny, goalkeeper of Poland, had defended her husband through Instagram, who was targeted by violent criticism after his own goal against Slovakia: “I don’t understand who writes these horrible things”. Nobody understands it: serial hatred is a widespread phenomenon, social before social, amplified by football which has always been, alas, a cauldron of tribal instincts, an easy outlet for frustrated people even more active on keyboards after the closure of the stadiums. cause of Covid. Cowardly death wishes, some time ago, were also delivered to the children of Leonardo Bonucci who publicly replied: «Maybe one day we will live in a better world, for now what I hope to keep my children away from is this world here. That of these people. That of violence made up of gestures, words and thoughts ». Pirlo’s son, Niccolò, of age a few days ago, rebelled a few months ago in the face of threats received from Juventus fans disappointed by his father as coach: he published one of the messages, he also invited him between bitterness and anger to identify himself. And Lorenzo Chiesa, a promise from Fiorentina Under 17, was hit with insults after his brother Federico moved to Juventus.

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Examples among thousands. Without Borders. In England, the Federation and the club have implemented a three-day social strike to react to online racism against footballers – we are not immune: Ounae, Simy and Duncan the latest victims in Serie A – and urge the platforms to intervene harshly: “There is they urgently need to do more to eradicate the phenomenon »the message from Richard Masters, CEO of the Premier League. In the meantime, in protest, someone has abandoned social media. Like Thierry Henry, 10 million followers on Facebook alone: ​​he will return, he said, when leading companies fight abuse with the same “ferocity” used for copyright infringement. The president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina: «It’s time to say enough. Due to the importance that football plays in our society, it is appropriate that we all assume the responsibility of sending positive messages, of stark contrast to professional haters ». –

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