Black Italian rugby player #CherifTraore is used to racist incidents. But when he received a Secret Santa gift of a rotten banana in a bin bag & his Benetton teammates laughed, he decided to call them out. Now Traore has generously accepted his teammates' apologies, saying the gesture was the result of idiocy & nothing else.

No mention from #Benetton of disciplinary action. The player responsible has not been named.

#blackmastodon #RacisminItaly #Razzismo

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/dec/21/italy-rugby-union-prop-cherif-traore-reveals-he-was-given-rotten-banana-in-club-secret-santa