{"id":34197,"date":"2013-02-22T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34197"},"modified":"2013-02-22T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:23:38","slug":"cnn-for-italys-ultras-nothing-black-and-white-about-football-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/22\/cnn-for-italys-ultras-nothing-black-and-white-about-football-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: For Italy&#8217;s &#8216;ultras,&#8217; nothing black and white about football and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; Hardcore Italian football &#8220;ultra&#8221; Federico is a Lazio supporter who happily admits directing monkey chants at black players.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;a means to distract opposition players&#8221; says Federico, a member of the Irriducibili (&#8220;The Unbeatables&#8221;) group which follows the Rome-based team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am against anyone who calls me a Nazi,&#8221; Federico told academic Alberto Testa, who spent time &#8220;embedded&#8221; with Lazio and Roma ultras for the book &#8220;Football, Fascism and Fandom: The UltraS of Italian Football,&#8221; co-authored by Gary Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I do not like is people who come to my country and commit crimes; Albanians and Romanians are destroying Rome with their camps,&#8221; Federico adds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m not a racist. One day, I was waiting in my car at the traffic lights and, as usual, there was a young female gypsy who was trying to clean the car windscreen and was asking for money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/21\/sport\/football\/italian-football-racism-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; Hardcore Italian football &#8220;ultra&#8221; Federico is a Lazio supporter who happily admits directing monkey chants at black players. It is &#8220;a means to distract opposition players&#8221; says Federico, a member of the Irriducibili (&#8220;The Unbeatables&#8221;) group which follows the Rome-based team. &#8220;I am against anyone who calls me a Nazi,&#8221; Federico told academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}