The match between Udinese and Milan has been “tarnished” by the Maignan case, with the red and black goalkeeper subjected to racist insults by someone present in the Friulian stadium. Maignan then recounted the episode on Dazn’s mics shortly after the match ended:

“We won and that’s positive, but in the first half something happened that shouldn’t have happened. Some home fans made the monkey noise, it’s not the first time. The referee should have understood the situation, now let him make the right statements in the prosecutor. I didn’t want to play anymore, but we are a family and I couldn’t leave my teammates.”

Maignan said he had a short conversation with Ibrahimovic after what happened: “He told me to stay strong in my head, give the right answer and win the game.” The red and black goalkeeper then continued:

“We are a family, I felt the support of everyone. We are here to play football, to give everything for our fans, to put on a show. I was also upset to go to the dressing room like that, but I had the support of everyone. We talked and decided to go back to the field to give the right answer.”

Udinese promises a strong reaction

“The regulation provides for suspension for a limited duration, but the club can decide to exclude those fans from the stadium for a longer period of time. We will work to exclude them from the stadium forever, forever”.

Through the words of Franco Collavino, general manager of Udinese, the club in question announces that the people who insulted Mike Maignan, the goalkeeper of Milan, in the match on Saturday evening, will suffer badly.

The Udinese manager then explained what happened in the last 24 hours and what will happen now: “We are convinced to look for those responsible, it could be only two or three people. It’s one, two, three miserable and that’s enough to make it a very serious thing.

We have already started watching the footage from the stadium cameras, we should also listen to the audio. In our stadium, inside and outside, there are over 300 cameras. We have a lot of work to do in a very short time to see all the footage of the case”.

Maignan said: “Anyone who does nothing will be an accomplice.” Collavino supports him: “He is right, but we moved too far ahead of his words. Already, in the first half of the match, we got in touch with the police to start looking for those people we don’t want among us.

In general, we operate ticket policies that encourage the presence of families in the stadium, of which there are many. We send our footballers to schools to make children aware of the issue of racism”.

A message to the goalkeeper of Milan: “I want to tell him that we are very sorry for what happened, we express our solidarity. Udinese has always been an example of a multi-ethnic and multicultural society, an example of coexistence and tolerance.

We have always had a higher number of colored players than the Italian average and indeed, after Bosman’s decision to open the borders in 1995, we were criticized for this as well, because we had many footballers of different nationalities and few Italians. The last 30 years speak for us, they are in front of everyone’s eyes”.

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