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There must be, somewhere, a secret manual on how not to behave in the face of incidents of discrimination, and everyone in Italian football must have read it.The episode of Francesco Acerbi and Juan Jesus is unfortunately just the umpteenth confirmation of a system which, despite numerous precedents, seems to react every time as if it were the first. Racism in football does not only concern Italy.The difference, however, lies in the response Monday 18 March was exemplary from this point of view.While the controversy surrounding the racist epithet allegedly addressed by the Inter defender to his Brazilian opponent had been going on since the previous evening, in the morning Acerbi's agent, Federico Pastorello, spoke at the TransferRoom Summit in Rome supporting that in reality there had been no racist insult, and that the story had been "badly reported".In the early afternoon, the FIGC he announced the exclusion of the player from the national team, currently involved in a co...