Italian premier Draghi provides Egonu his full help.
Political leaders in Italy, together with outgoing premier Mario Draghi, expressed solidarity with Paola Egonu on Sunday after the Italian volleyball star threatened to stop the nationwide staff over racist abuse on social media.
A video posted on Twitter on Saturday confirmed 23-year-old Egonu, who was born in Italy to Nigerian mother and father, in tears as she spoke to her supervisor moments after serving to her staff win a bronze medal on the earth championships.
“That is my final sport with the nationwide staff” – Egonu is heard telling her agent -“You’ll be able to’t perceive. They requested me why I’m Italian.”
È diventato virale il video dello sfogo di Paola #Egonu alla tremendous della partita che ha visto l’Italia del volley femminile prevalere sugli Stati Uniti #italiausa #volley #italvolley pic.twitter.com/dgUGR8wrvE
— Fanpage.it (@fanpage) October 15, 2022
The footage went viral and prompted a flurry of statements from senior politicians and sporting figures in Italy, assuring Egonu of their full help.
Egonu, who turned an Italian citizen at 14 after her father obtained an Italian passport, later clarified that she could be taking trip to mirror on the state of affairs.
Piena solidarietà alla campionessa di volley Paola #Egonu dal Presidente Draghi nella telefonata di questa mattina. L’atleta azzurra è un orgoglio dello sport italiano, avrà future occasioni per vincere altri trofei indossando la maglia della Nazionale pic.twitter.com/ZZnWLnhM3P
— Palazzo_Chigi (@Palazzo_Chigi) October 16, 2022
Prime minister Draghi telephoned Egonu to supply her his “full solidarity”, describing her as “the delight of Italian sport” in assertion launched by his workplace.
Giovanni Malagò, president of Italy’s Olympic committee CONI, additionally pledged his help and urged Egonu “to not make any hasty selections”, stories information company ANSA.
The chief of the centre-left Partito Democratico, Enrico Letta, tweeted a picture by Mauro Biani, who specialises in social and political illustrations, displaying Egonu dressed within the Italian tricolour alongside the phrase Azzurra.
#PaolaEgonuAzzurra@maurobiani pic.twitter.com/g2Rw053hEM
— Enrico Letta (@EnricoLetta) October 16, 2022
Giuseppe Conte, chief of the populist MoVimento 5 Stelle, supplied his solidarity to Egonu and condemned the “vulgar phrases” in opposition to her from “squalid people”.
The chief of the right-wing Lega social gathering, Matteo Salvini, additionally despatched a “robust hug” to Egonu, “champion on and off the sector, to whom we want many extra victories with the Tricolour on her chest”.
The case comes as Italy prepares to usher in a right-wing authorities whose coalition events have lengthy ignored calls from the left to ease the nation’s restrictive citizenship legal guidelines.
