Italy again causes controversy over the Black Lives Matter movement. The azzurri they change position in each game: five out of eleven knelt against Wales (Pessina, Toloi, Emerson, Belotti and Bernardeschi), against Austria no one did and with Belgium, it seems, all will. Chiellini had advanced that idea before the last confrontation and Federcalcio officially confirmed it: “We will fight racism with other initiatives, but we will kneel if the rival does, out of respect.” Barring unlikely surprises, then, the 22 players in the quarter-final between the Nazionale and Belgium will kneel before the ball starts rolling. The team of Lukaku and De Bruyne also did it together with the Portuguese players, and now they will share the gesture with the Italians, whose stance is not convincing. La Azzurra decided not to position itself, since in an eventual semifinal, if his opponent does not kneel, he will do the same, changing his behavior for the fourth time in four games. The famous writer Roberto Saviano commented on the matter like this: “It is an infamous debate, a noble gesture is poisoned. When did the good example start to disgust us?”
