[Mari] Francesco Acerbi to Corriere della Serra: “Without having anything against Juan Jesus, the opposite because I’m very sorry for him too. But you can’t call a person racist for a misunderstood word in the heat of the game. And you can’t continue to do it even after I’ve been acquitted.”

“But this is not a fight with-
against racism, there was no racism on the pitch and I am not a racist person: my idol was George Weah and when my tumor was found (cancer) I received a phone call from him which made me happy.”

“Everyone was humiliating me, massacring and threatening my family. And for what? For something that ended up on the pitch and in which racism had nothing to do. Racism is a serious thing, not an alleged insult.”

“Will I speak to Thuram and other teammates about what happened? Why not. They know me well.”

“These were bad days, I saw people around me react as if I had been released after 10 years in prison. The sentence is a liberation but I'm sad about how everyone marched and talked without knowing anything. I received a lot of hate, as if I had killed someone.”

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