Silvio Berlusconi has promised his gamers at AC Monza a “bus full of w****s” in the event that they gained in opposition to Serie A giants Juventus on Sunday.
In a surprising upset, they secured a 2-0 victory in Turin, courtesy of first-half objectives from Patrick Ciurria and Dany Mota.
Monza, a third-division membership earlier than Berlusconi’s takeover in 2018, are of their first-ever season within the high flight of Italian soccer.
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Speaking at Monza’s Christmas social gathering, Berlusconi mentioned: “I have given the players extra motivation and I have told them that if we beat Milan, Juventus, one of these big clubs, I send them a ‘bus full of sex workers to the locker room’.”
He is finest identified for his three stints as Italy’s Prime Minister between 1994 and 2011 as a right-wing chief.
A video of the speech was broadly shared on social media, and the staff’s social media channels cheered them on with a tweet of the staff bus.
Berlusconi confirmed the remarks, and mentioned after the victory that “over 100 people have already called me and they ask me to fulfil my commitment.”
The assertion has been criticised by different Italian politicians.
Senator Daniela Sbrollini slammed the remarks, calling them “the usual misogynist language from Berlusconi: a joke in bad taste that leaves you speechless.”
Berlusconi has a historical past of vibrant language and controversy.
In 2008, he mentioned that feminine politicians from the fitting had been “more beautiful” and that “the left has no taste, even when it comes to women.”
In 2009, his spouse wrote an open letter expressing her anger at his alternative of younger, engaging feminine candidates (some with none political expertise) to symbolize his social gathering within the European Parliament elections, later submitting for divorce and saying she couldn’t “remain with a man who consorts with minors.”
In 2010, after being accused of involvement in juvenile prostitution, he advised a Milan viewers: “I am a man who works hard all day long and if sometimes I look at some good looking girl, it’s better to be fond of pretty girls than to be gay.”
In 2013, he was discovered responsible of paying for intercourse with an underage prostitute and of abusing his workplace, being sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public workplace for all times.
His conviction was quashed on attraction a yr later.
Originally printed as Berlusconi guarantees staff intercourse employees in the event that they beat Juventus
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
