Italy's Traore calls out team mates over 'offensive' Christmas present

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Italy's Traore calls out team mates over 'offensive' Christmas present
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A Black Italian rugby player accused his team mates of racism on Wednesday after they gave him a 'rotten banana' during a 'Secret Santa' anonymous gift exchange.

Rugby Union - Six Nations Championship - Italy v Wales - Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy - February 9, 2019 Italy's Cherif Traore looks on REUTERS/Stringer

Cherif Traore wrote on Instagram that he received the unwanted present, inside a rubbish bag, during a Christmas dinner with fellow Benetton Treviso players. Benetton Rugby said in a statement they had "always condemned with the utmost firmness any expression of racism and/or form of discrimination" and the incident involving Traore "has nothing to do with sport".

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