Racism, Swedish accusations against the Under team The FIGC denies: “They are falsehoods”

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Destiny Udogie already returned to Friuli on Tuesday evening, directly from Monza, taking with him the wake of the controversies raised by the under-21 national team of Sweden after a draw with the Azzurrini, controversies triggered by Scandinavian accusations on alleged racist offenses against Anthony Elanga, player that the most attentive will have followed with the Manchester United shirt, with which he has already made his debut and scored in the Premier.

“We told our version of what happened and we presented a report to both the referees and the Uefa delegates”, explained the Swedish Football Association, reporting in a note the words of the selector Claes Eriksson, words to which we must add those of Martin Fredman, manager of the safety of the Swedish Under 21, collected from the site The football channel: «From what we understand, everything happened after the draw. The Italian Federation has been informed, now it will be the police’s turn, there may also be TV images and other recordings that can be collected ».

The FIGC, for its part, hit by the accusations, immediately replied harshly: “No racist offense was pronounced before, at that moment or later”. Behind this statement, evidently, a careful review of the video of the match, which ended at 1-1 with Prica’s equalizer in full recovery: “Hoping that the competent bodies will promptly clarify the case, as emerges from the television images still available on RaiPlay, after the equalizer, in the 92nd minute, two Swedish players rejoice for a long time for the goal and are called back by the Italian players to resume the game quickly ». One of the two, visibly high, is the number 9 Elanga who runs under the segment of the grandstand occupied by Swedish fans. Then a couple of minutes of play and, at the end of the game, the handshakes between the two teams, even if there is space between an exchange of words between Elana and the azzurrini, among which the former Atalantino stands out, now on loan to Cremonese, Caleb Okoli, central defender born in Vicenza of Nigerian parents, the same story as Udogie, from Veneto from Verona. Because this Italian Under 21 is also multiethnic. –

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