After a night which must not have been the best of his life, a few hours after being the victim of monkey cries from Udine, Mike Maignan, as he did after a similar scenario in 2021 against Juventus, , sent a scathing message to the world of football in its entirety. “It was not the player who was attacked. It’s the man. He’s the father of the family. This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. And I’m not the first this has happened to. We issued press releases, advertising campaigns, protocols and nothing has changed. Today, an entire system must take its responsibilities,” writes the goalkeeper of the France team.
And he lists the various people responsible, on their scale, for this neglect in Italian football around the question of racism: “The authors of these acts, because it is easy to act in a group, in the anonymity of a platform. The spectators who were in the stand, who saw everything, who heard everything but who chose to remain silent, you are complicit. The Udinese club, which only spoke of an interruption of the match, as if nothing had happened, you are complicit. The authorities and the prosecutor, with everything that is happening, if you do nothing, YOU WILL ALSO BE COMPLICED. »
“A fight we will win”
“I’ve already told you and if it bears repeating: I am not a VICTIM. And I want to say thank you to my club AC Milan, to my teammates, to the referee, to the Udinese players and to everyone who sent me messages, who called me, who supported privately and publicly. I can’t answer everyone but I see you and we are TOGETHER. It is a difficult fight, which will take time and courage. But it’s a fight that we will win,” concluded the AC Milan goalkeeper who, through his repeated speeches, is trying to get things moving in a country and a league, Serie A, plagued by racism for too many years.