Gattuso: “I’m not a racist, accusations make me suffer”

Gennaro Gattuso told himself in a long interview with Corriere della Sera, starting from the accusations of racism in recent days: “I’m not as they describe me on social media, these accusations make me suffer. You take statements from different years, you isolate them from the context and trials are set up with the aim of delegitimizing a person, a life. Courts are serious things: someone accuses, someone defends, someone judges. Here the technological gallows breaks down and defines sentences without the possibility of appeal. I’m not a type from social. If they call me Ringhio, there must be a reason. I don’t go hunting for easy consents, I don’t play nice on command. I’m someone who works, who has always worked, who has worked so hard and who is grateful to life for that that gave him “. “When I hear that I am a racist I seem to go crazy – emphasizes the 44 year old from Calabria -. No person, ever, can be judged by the color of their skin. I know many with white skin who do not behave well. Racism must always be fought. . I coached dozens of players who had different skin from mine, three of them work in my restaurant, I had teammates whom I loved. For me, the color of the skin does not matter, the person counts. his loyalty “. Another sentence contested in Gattuso dates back to 2008, when the midfielder then said to Milan that for him, a Catholic, marriage is between a man and a woman:” But then I added that for me everyone is free to do as he pleases. And that’s exactly what I think. Any freedom, including that of sexual behavior, is welcome, it is a sign of progress “. Then the sentence about women and their ability to manage football, in relation to Barbara Berlusconi: “No, absolutely not. In every field women do as and better than men. They are showing it in governments, in companies, in every sector. . The more women will have responsibility, the better it will be. I will add one thing, which can explain my state of mind that day: I consider Galliani as the best person I met in football. He always knew how to say the right thing at the right time. ” The former Milan midfielder also returns to the episode of the header in Jordan, during a Champions League match between the Rossoneri and Tottenham: “I made a mistake and I’m ashamed of it. That’s something I did. It was an unjustifiable mistake. Of course. , I could say that they are field things. They happen, unfortunately. But instead I am ashamed of it. I have a fourteen-year-old son, she believes that I am not ashamed in front of him for that madness, when he rightly asks me for an account “.