The Italian actress Aurora Leone, a member of the comedy group The Jackal, denounced that she was prevented from playing on the grounds that she was a woman in the “Partita del Cuore”, a famous charity soccer match, for which she claims she had been summoned by the organizers.
The actress reported on social networks that last night during the dinner prior to the charity sporting event that the national team of singers disputed against the country’s comedians, the general director of the association of singers that organizes the event, Gianluca Pecchini, invited her to change places because he could not be seated with the famous summoned.
“He told me don’t make me explain why you can’t be here: get up,” and he invited me to sit at another table, “the actress reproduced.
The actress explained that she had been summoned together with her partner from the comedy group, Ciro Priello, and that she had even given the measurements for the shirt, to which she was told to put it on “the stands” and with a blunt: ” Since when do women play? ».
After the confrontation, the comedians decided not to participate in the “Partita del Cuore”, but assured that they continue to “support the objective of the project” that aims to raise funds for cancer research.
The members of The Jackal remarked that Allegra Agnelli, president of the Piedmont Foundation for Research against Cancer, to whom the benefits of the “Partita del Cuore” will go, declared herself “ashamed” and regretted what happened.
Some of the members of the Nazionale Cantanti also apologized, such as Eros Ramazzotti, Andro dei Negramaro and other singers present at the dinner.
For its part, the association defended itself by saying that women “have always participated and supported the project,” and accusing Leone of “arrogance, threats and verbal violence,” according to the Italian media today.
The Secretary of State for Sports, Valentina Vezzali, pointed out on her social networks that this case “is another sad testimony of how far there is still to go. The phrase Since when do women play soccer? shows the need for a change in sports culture. EFE. (JL).