Serie A proposed to ban the use of the 88th game number due to the connection with the greeting of neo-Nazis

In the near future, the teams of the Italian Serie may be banned from using football shirts with the number 88. The national coordinator for anti-Semitism under the Prime Minister of Italy, Milena Santerini, proposed such a ban.

According to the official, the number 88 is a coded neo-Nazi greeting Heil Hitler, since the letter H is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet. Santerini is confident that the ban on the use of this number will protect the moral and ethical values ​​of the sport.

“Symbol 88 is the propaganda of death, suffering, transcendental violence and an ideology that introduces the concept of “grades” for people. Therefore, we call on Serie A to stop the use of jerseys from the number 88 by teams. Even if such a ban is not introduced, we call on the teams to voluntarily stop using this number,” said Santerini.