Legrottaglie: «We must fight racism»

Racism must be fought with strength, in everyday life as well as in sports. This is the message the project “Un calcio al razzismo” (A kick to racism) is forwarding, promoted in the last November by Juventus at UNESCO Centre in Torino. The initiative foresee the award of two scholarships, for year 2009/2010, to a Second Grade Institute and to a student, aged between 18 and 25, who did significant actions, always in fighting racism and in favor of integration.

And to support this project also Nicola Legrottaglie intervened, who tonight, in classroom 4 at Palazzo Nuovo, took part to a lesson of Diritto Internazionale dello Sport (Sport International Right). The meeting issue, the fight against racism in sport domain: «Racism must be fought in all environments, not only in soccer – Nicola said– It’s a fight to be supported with stubbornness». Yesterday Jonathan Zebina was the victim of racist choirs and a mean aggression: «The best thing to do in these cases is not to speak about it and do not give visibility to who committed this act –Legrottaglie went on – That person today was on all newspaper, while it would be better not to give importance at media level. Anyway, I saw Jonathan calm and serene».

Finally, the defender opened a parenthesis on the victory vs. Atalanta: «Three suffered points, very important considering the final rush that we will go through. For the future we’ll try to plan our work in order to have the necessary fuel to reach our targets»
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