Juventus legend Claudio Marchisio hit again angrily at a bunch of ultras who positioned an insulting banner over the doorway to his restaurant. ‘You don’t have any concept. You aren’t followers.’
The incident was sparked by Marchisio – who’s from Turin – commenting on a podcast that there have been extra Torino followers within the metropolis of Turin than Juventus supporters, whereas the Bianconeri will be discovered throughout Italy.
It’s hardly a brand new assertion, nor a remotely inaccurate one.
This infuriated a bunch of ultras representing the Drughi, who positioned an enormous banner throughout a restaurant within the metropolis that he co-owns.
‘As a participant you have been a lackey of the membership, as an unemployed pundit you’re a traitor, and in life Marchisio you’re a piece of ****!’
Now 38, Marchisio retired in 2019 and spent the overwhelming majority of his profession at Juventus, developing by their youth academy and having solely a quick mortgage with Empoli in 2007-08 earlier than shifting to Zenit St. Petersburg in 2018.
The previous Italy worldwide posted a picture of the banner on his Instagram account, together with an extended message on the entire scenario.
Marchisio responds to Juventus ultras
“I cited a statistic on the fanbases in some Italian cities throughout a podcast and this morning wakened with my cellphone full of those photographs.
“I’m speaking now to you 4, along with your faces lined, who proudly exhibit this banner. Clearly, everyone seems to be free to precise themselves and their ideas throughout the limits of decency.
“What I can’t abide is that sure individuals assume they’re ‘followers’ with the fitting to commit gestures that transcend the restrict. Why do you assume you may have the fitting to put that banner in entrance of a restaurant the place I’m not the one shareholder? Why do you assume the individuals who work there ought to waste valuable time eradicating it and that the opposite companies close by needs to be affected by this gesture?
“As a result of every thing is allowed in soccer? As a result of there isn’t any restrict? I repeat, I’m not even irritated by the message, however by placing it exterior the restaurant.”
Marchisio did then reply to the crux of the message, which accused him of being a traitor to Juventus, but in addition a lackey for the membership.
“You don’t know something. You don’t have any concept the sacrifices me and my household made, the kilometres I lined as a child to coach and play within the provinces, the adolescence I missed, the friendships I misplaced by by no means being there.
“You don’t have any concept of the time I couldn’t spend with my spouse and kids, that I’ll by no means get again. You don’t have any concept of the struggling I felt with accidents and the way I by no means held again one single day.
“No concept of the braveness to step apart when the time got here and put the wants of the group forward of my very own. However you additionally don’t know how fantastic it felt to dwell this life together with the various followers who lit up my life. These are followers, sure, not you!
“Citing a much more romantic banner than this one: ‘Everyone seems to be a Juventino, however Marchisio is a bit bit extra.’”
It’s not the primary time the Juventus ultras bought into rows with membership legends or the present administrators.