World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. After receiving a ban in for making a fascist salute towards Lazio fans, Di Canio claimed : "I am a fascist, not a racist".
With the straight arm I don't want to incite violence and certainly not racial hatred. In his autobiography, Di Canio also described Mussolini as "basically a very principled, ethical individual" and claimed that the former dictator - who allied with Nazi Germany during World War II - was "deeply misunderstood". Subscribe here on iTunes. Paolo di Canio fired as tattoo reveals fascist sympathies the world already knew he had.
Kevin Beirne. Paolo is not a fascist and he never has been. Certain things he has said and done — the salute with the Lazio fans for instance — have to do with his compulsive tendencies, which in turn reflect his psychological history, particularly as it relates to extremes of enthusiasm, mood swings and depression. As a young man, he was one of the few hard-core Lazio fans, the Irriducibili, who would travel to away games: in those days most ultras had little enthusiasm for travel.
It was the best feeling in the world. He was five yards away. He wrote a memoir, unfortunately untranslated, called Il Ritorno The Return , which described his emotions when he signed for Lazio for a second time. When I looked around the dressing room, I thought that the lump in my throat might choke me.
I was overwhelmed. I wept and I trembled. My heart pounded. I lost the ability to speak. I kept on crying like a baby. I am not a man who cries a lot. But that day, everything was different. You make strong bonds very easily. His unusual — some would say pathological — capacity for loyalty was demonstrated at clubs other than Lazio, notably at West Ham United. Sir Alex Ferguson, I once told the Italian, told me that he had tried to sign the striker on two occasions. Who knows what effect working under Ferguson might have had both on his collection of medals, and on his temperament?
I could never have let down my team-mates, and especially the supporters, at West Ham United. They were the people who gave me the chance to feel at home. I had to finish my career in a place that I respected and a place that felt like home.
West Ham, as he told me repeatedly, was very special. But he developed a deep affection for Britain in general.
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