Di Francesco: 'No Douglas Costa racial abuse, I swear on my life'
- Kaustubh Pandey (@Kaus_Pandey17)
The media was sent into a frenzy when Douglas Costa was spotted spitting on Di Francesco during Juve's weekend game against Sassuolo recently. The Brazilian has already been suspended for four games.
Following his side's 3-1 win over Empoli recently, Di Francesco was asked about the incident. He told Sky: “I was disappointed but I tried to remove myself from this situation and I thank the Coach [Roberto De Zerbi] and my family.
“I just want to talk about the pitch and work, and leave behind this chapter which isn’t a good thing, but which happened.
“What did I say? I don’t want to talk about it. It’s normal that there are dirty words on the pitch. But I absolutely did not say racist things. I’d die right now if I used racist words, now I don’t want to talk about it for the rest of my career.”
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