"I'm sorry. I reacted the wrong way to a provocation. I'm sorry, I'll treasure it. I'm not looking for extenuating circumstances, I should have reacted differently. We are educational models": says the Inter coach, Antonio Conte, about the events at the Juventus Stadium.
"Everyone has seen and heard the truth but my reaction was wrong," he added.
In the meantime, the Football Association's Prosecutor's Office has moved. She was the first to clarify the dispute, with an exchange of gestures and insults, between the president of Juventus, Andrea Agnelli, and the Inter coach, Antonio Conte, who animated last Tuesday evening at the Allianz Stadium. of Turin. The head of the office, Giuseppe Chinè, has launched an investigation "relating to the behavior of Juventus and Nerazzurri managers and members during and at the end of the second leg of the semi-final of the Italian Cup. The fourth official, Daniele Chiffi, has been called up. ". Precisely the intervention of the latter, in the heat, was invoked by Conte saying: "I think he saw what happened throughout the game". On the other hand, the sports judge did not make any decision as in the documents at his disposal, including the referee's report, there was no indication of the heated dispute. There was also no provision against the managers Fabio Paratici and Gabriele Oriali, who were also involved. A story on which Conte does not want to joke, so much so that he refuses the Golden Tapir that 'Striscia la Notizia' wanted to deliver to him. Bonucci acknowledged that it was an "unpleasant episode", but urged everyone to "emphasize less". "Agnelli and Marotta in the assembly today were calm, without any tension - he said leaving the Assembly of Lega Urbano Cairo - These things happen for the adrenaline of the field". The word goes to the FIGC Prosecutor. It will now be necessary to ascertain whether the incidents have been assessed in the inspectors' report: in that case the Prosecutor could acquire the videos necessary to reconstruct the offending exchanges, escaped from the race director, but still audible due to the absence of the public. The purpose of the investigation is to ascertain any violations of article 39 of the Code of Sports Justice, which governs seriously unsportsmanlike conduct, or possibly 4, on the principles of loyalty, correctness and probity. The reconstruction of the facts is diametrically opposed. According to the Inter side, Conte was heavily insulted ('coglione, clown') throughout the first half. The technician's middle finger towards the grandstand, captured by the television images upon returning to the locker room, would therefore have been a reaction to the offenses. For Juventus, however, it would be the Nerazzurri coach who lit the fuse with his gesture.