Senegal National team coach Aliou Cise has come out publicly to challenge the Naples Club President Aurelio De Laurentis following his dreadful comments on African players
It was revealed that the Club President last week reiterated that he will only sign African players if they will agree to boycott the continental tournaments, AFCON that usually hold bi-yearly.
Following this comment by the president, lots of African football bodies and professional has came out to throw backlash at him and also Accused him racism following his tragic decision on African players.
Senegal president, Aliou Cise is the recent football professional to have backlashed the president thereby challenging him to put a halt to signing black players else, there’s none among African’s players that’s gonna abandon their country for any club in Europe.
while speaking to BBC, the Senegalese coach said:
“A football player can play for 12 teams, say, but will only have one national team,”
“Clubs will never be above our flag and our national teams. And every Senegalese who plays in Europe, wherever he will be, if he is competent I will call him to defend the colours of the nation”
“I have a lot of respect for (De Laurentiis) but I challenge them to try to not recruit African players.” He concluded”
