Lazio President Aligns Himself With FIGC Candidate Tavecchio

Date: 1st August 2014 at 2:51pm
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Lazio president Claudio Lotito has sided with FIGC presidential candidate Carlo Tavecchio, suggesting that the pair’s background outside Serie A’s elite makes them unpopular.

Tavecchio made a comment that has been widely regarded as racist, something that Lotito has refuted.

In an interview with Il Fatto Quotidiano, Lotito backed his preferred FIGC presidential candidate to the hilt.

“Tavecchio and I are the Robin Hoods of football!” he claimed before going on talk more specifically about the controversy, based around Tavecchio’s statement that players can go ‘from eating bananas’ straight into the Lazio first team.

Lotito’s claims Tavecchio’s words have been misconstrued.

“He was making an argument on the use of these guys that take away spaces for our youngsters,” he indicated. “You have to consider the rationale of his words.

“He comes from the Lega Dilettanti,” the Biancocelesti president continued, “which is against discrimination and is the basis for Italian football.”

Tavecchio is standing against Demetrio Albertini in the race for the FIGC presidency, after previous incumbent Giancarlo Abete stepped down after Italy’s World Cup campaign.

 

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