Italian rugby has been rocked by a racism controversy after Benetton’s Guinea-born prop Cherif Traore revealed that he had received a banana in the club’s Secret Santa.The 28-year-old, who arrived in Italy at the age of seven and has won 15 caps in the front row for the Azzurri, published a social media post which revealed the ugly episode. He wrote: ‘ is coming and as traditionally in a team, it’s Secret Santa time. Yesterday, when it was my turn, I found a banana inside my present. A rotten banana inside a bag of moisture.’
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