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Balotelli makes Totti racial abuse claim
May 07 2010 at 02:26PM
Rome - Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli has accused AS Roma club captain Francesco Totti of racially abusing him during the Italian Cup final.
Totti was sent off a couple of minutes from time after wildly kicking out at Balotelli as the Romans went down 1-0 to a Diego Milito strike on Wednesday.
The veteran forward then came out on Thursday and tried to explain away his actions by claiming Balotelli had insulted him.
But the teenager of Ghanaian descent now says Totti used a racial slur.
“Nigger piece of shit, that’s what he called,” says Balotelli in Friday’s Gazzetta dello Sport.
Totti, so often the darling not just at Roma but of Italian football, has been roundly criticised for his moment of madness at the Stadio Olimpico with many commentators claiming that kick has booted into touch his chances of going to the World Cup.
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