AC Milan Striker Mario Balotelli Brought to Tears After Racist Chants or Because of Poor Play?

During Saturday night’s match against Napoli, AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli was seen on the sideline in tears.  He tried to hide his tears but soon broke down crying.  Some thought it was because he was subbed out of the game but it turns out it was the racist chants that deeply hurt Balotelli.

It has been reported that the #Balotelli incident was all about racist chants. #Milan #Napoli#SerieA

— Serie A Live (@SerieAlive) February 8, 2014

Balotelli is constantly a target for racist soccer fans and usually reacts defiantly but even the strongest human being has their breaking points.

It’s sad that this still happens.

UPDATE:

Now there’s some discrepancy as to the real reason Balotelli was crying.  While he is often the victim of racism amongst soccer fans, his  manager, Clarence Seedorf alluded it was because of poor play and being subbed out.

“We are players and there are times when we express ourselves that way. I see nothing wrong or abnormal in that. I experienced it at times too,” the Coach told Sky Sport Italia.

“He too needs to grow in general. He played very well against Cagliari, while tonight perhaps didn’t make the most of the space. These are things we can all improve on and I’m happy he has so many areas to improve, as I can help him through that education.”

- Shaina Auxilly (@Shay_Marie)

PR Executive , Racist , Kicked Out, Going to Africa.

InterActiveCorp media company decided to fire its infamous PR executive Justine Sacco, who made a racist tweet on December 20, 2013, Friday. “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” the lady wrote.

“The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC. We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question. There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally.

We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core,” the statement by IAC said.

It would be recalled that Justine Sacco had tweeted a racist, stereotype remark, which has been later deleted, from an airport in London before she left for Cape Town, South Africa, on December 20, 2013, Friday.

 

Her tweet went viral and caused outrage on social media.

Mrs. Sacco used to be the head of corporate communications for IAC, the media company chaired by Barry Diller that operates websites such as The Daily Beast, About.com, CollegeHumor and Match.com. The main activities of the embattled PR executive revolved around communicating with reporters, which made her Twitter comment about Africa even more shocking.

Her Twitter account was relatively obscure when she posted the infamous message: less than 500 people were following it.

Sacco apparently had no Internet access during her flight, so she could not know what effect her message made.

Websites such as Valleywag and Buzzfeed highlighted Sacco’s account, and soon it had thousands of followers and thousands of harsh replies directed at it. Some were downright hateful.

On Friday evening a Twitter hashtag, #HasJustineLandedYet, became a running commentary about Sacco.

Justine Sacco is yet to comment about her action
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