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Italy coach Marcello Lippi says he won't call up Inter Milan
forward Mario Balotelli just to make a statement against racism.
Balotelli, who is of Ghanian descent, has been the subject of
racial taunts from fans at games in Italy for the past two seasons
and Lippi has faced widening calls to select him for the World Cup
in South Africa.
Lippi said Tuesday that "everyone knows that I am against any
type of racism. Only one race exists - the human race - but a coach
can't call a player up for that reason."
Lippi added that "when I judge that the time is right to call
him up, I will do it solely and exclusively for technical reasons,
not racial ones."
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