Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero has backed FIGC head Carlo Tavecchio over controversial remarks.
Tapes of the President of the Italian football federation making anti-semitic and homophobic remarks were released at the weekend, drawing widespread condemnation.
Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero has backed FIGC head Carlo Tavecchio over controversial remarks.
Tapes of the President of the Italian football federation making anti-semitic and homophobic remarks were released at the weekend, drawing widespread condemnation.
However, the Blucerchiati patron has backed Tavecchio, with reference to a controversy of his own, when he described Inter’s Indonesian owner Erick Thohir as “that Filipino”.
“I don’t know what President Tavecchio said, and I haven’t heard it since I was abroad,” Ferrero admitted in an interview with ANSA.
“But what I will say is that one swallow does not make a summer, so we can’t disregard the great job he’s done so far because of a sentence.
“I, for example, was condemned for calling a man ‘Filipino’ instead of Indonesian, which is nearby, but you journalists want to blow it out of proportion.”