Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's
centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party said Italian soccer should
take a knee not only for anti-racism moves but also for a
19-year-old rising star of Afghan football who died falling off
a US transport plane after trying to cling to its landing gear
in a desperate bid to flee Kabul.
"At the age of 19, Zaki Anwari was a great promise of Afghan
football," said FI no.2 Antonio Tajani, former European
Parliament president.
"To flee the Taliban he tried to cling to the wheels of an
American Boeing leaving Kabul.
"He wanted a better future but found death.
"Let soccer take the knee for him too," as well as for the Black
Lives Matter movement.
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