Inter fans declare war on their captain Mauro Icardi. Or at least to what, for the moment, but things could soon be different, is their captain. It seems like a paradoxical situation, and for this reason it can only be true, because no imagination could go that far.
Scandal stone is an episode from about a year and a half ago. The end of the match against Sassuolo, in the first months of 2015. Inter lose and the fans begin to boo. Guarin and above all Icardi face them, first in a calm way then with a very hard face. To disturb the minds of the Nerazzurri fans and the reconstruction of the episode made by Icardi in his autobiography, "Always ahead“, that you need to have had a full life or a top-notch ghostwriter to publish your autobiography at just 23 years old.
In the book, Icardi recounts that episode thus: “I take off my shirt and shorts and give them to a child. Too bad that an ultra boss flies at him, snatches the shirt from his hands and throws it back at me with contempt. In that instant I didn't see it anymore, I would have hit him for the bastard gesture he just made. And then I start insulting him heavily: 'You piece of shit, are you bullying and bullying a child so that the whole curve can see you? (…) Having said that, I threw the shirt in his face. At that moment all hell broke loose. (…) In the locker room I am acclaimed like an idol… The managers feared that the fans might wait for me at home to make me pay. But I was clear: 'I'm ready to face them one by one. Maybe they don't know that I grew up in one of South America's neighborhoods with the highest rate of crime and street killings. How many? Fifty, one hundred, two hundred? All right, record my message, and let him hear it: I'm bringing a hundred criminals from Argentina who will kill them there on the spot, then we'll see”.
The sampling of the story seems to be that of a confused machismo. It intervenes in defense of a child, the paradigm of innocence, but it is done by threatening an entire curve to bring "Argentine criminals to kill them on the spot". And they are also hailed as heroes. It is a difficult reconstruction to follow, deeply illogical and self-congratulatory, at least in intention. Not necessarily unreal for this.
However, the Curva Nord, the one with the warmest Inter supporters, tied it to his finger, in an exclamation that started with a press release in which Icardi is defined as a clown who "has finished" with the Curva and who should give up the band captain of Inter, continued with the booing of the Inter captain and the exultation of the North at his missed penalty and closed with the worst capital, the rather threatening banner that appeared under Icardi's house: "We are here, when your Argentine friends arrive you warn us or you do it like a villain?”.
The answer to the question posed in the title, "who is right," is obviously: None, although there may be different levels of wrong. Icardi, who has been harshly scolded by the club, obviously has freedom of speech, but the reconstruction of him has something crooked, not very credible. He seems to have strayed from intentions to arrive at the caricature of the hero. The tale of a ridiculous and a little stupid knight, who perhaps wants, more than anything else, to sell a few more copies of his book than he does.
The reaction of the Curve, especially when it takes the form of a gloomy banner placed under the house of a 23-year-old boy, his wife and children, seems like the response of a criminal group when it is disrespected. And we know that lack of respect in certain circles is never tolerated and must always be paid for. In any case, they are just chapters in a story that, seen from here, doesn't seem to make any sense. And that has nothing to do with football.
Meanwhile, in the afternoon, Icardi was kept on report by the club for almost two hours: it emerged that he will still be the captain, but he will be fined and will have to withdraw the book, reprinting it without the offensive phrases towards the fans.
