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Updated: Jan. 30, 2006
Roma risk ban for anti-semitic banners
ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) - AS Roma risk a stadium ban after their fans held up banners with neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic slogans during a 3-0 win over Livorno in Serie A at the weekend.
The club immediately sought to distance itself from its fans.
'I'm absolutely against anyone who tries to bring politics into the stadiums,' Roma coach Luciano Spalletti was quoted as saying in Corriere dello Sport on Monday. 'It should remain outside.'
The mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, reflected the coach's words and added: 'Rome is the city of the deportation of the Jews, the city of the Fosse Ardeatine (the site where German soldiers killed Jews during the Second World War). We cannot tolerate behaviour of this kind.'
Roma narrowly avoided a stadium ban earlier this season after a bottle hit the referee at the end of the derby with Lazio.
Among the people calling for the club to be punished was the head of the city's Jewish community, Vittorio Pavoncello.
'We will ask for the intervention of the sporting authorities,' he said.
The incident will cause more damage to Italian football's tarnished public image.
Lazio's Paolo Di Canio has received 10,000 euro fines and one-match bans twice in the last month for making raised-arm fascist salutes during Serie A games.
事情发生后。罗马俱乐部想方设法和那些球迷保持距离。
主教练斯帕莱蒂在接受米兰体育报采访时表示,他一贯反对那些将政治因素带入足球场的人。
罗马市长表示,由于罗马在二战时是纳粹屠杀犹太人的地点,因此那些反犹行为是不能容忍的。
罗马城中犹太人的领袖Vittorio Pavoncello表示,他们将向体育方面的主管部门寻求干预。
[此贴子已经被作者于2006-1-30 22:50:41编辑过]
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