Top Volleyball Player Mulls Quitting Italy Team Over Racism
顶尖排球运动员因为种族歧视考虑退出国家队
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*Egonu comments after playing on bronze-medal winning team
*Volleyball star was born in Italy of Nigerian descent
ByAlessandro Speciale
2022年10月16日 下午6:53 [GMT+8]Updated on2022年10月16日 下午9:33 [GMT+8]
An Italian volleyball star is considering quitting the national squad over
racist attacks after helping her team take third place in the world
championships.
一名意大利排球明星在帮助他的球队赢下世锦赛季军后，因遭遇种族歧视，正在考虑退出
国家队。
“This is my last game with the national team,” Paola Egonu, a 23-year-old
born in Italy of Nigerian descent, was heard telling her manager in a video
posted on Twitter on Saturday. She spoke after the team’s 3-0 victory over
the US to secure the bronze medal. “You can’t understand. They asked me why
I am Italian.”
“这是我在国家队的最后一场比赛”Egonu，一名23岁出生于意大利的尼日利亚裔球员，被
一则于星期六发布在推特上的影片录到，这样对他的经纪人说。他说这段话时，他的队伍
才以3：0赢过美国拿下铜牌。“你不懂。他们问说我为什么是意大利人。”
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi later called Egonu, a two-time Olympian,
on Sunday to express his support.
意大利总理Mario Draghi于稍晚的星期日致电Egonu（两届奥运选手），表达他的支持。
Egonu later clarified in TV interviews that she wants to take a “pause,”
and that she’ll consider whether to rejoin the national team at a later
stage.
Egonu稍后在电视访问上澄清，他只是想要“暂停”一下，同时他也会考虑未来再参与国家
队征召。
The athlete, who now plays for a top team in Istanbul, has often been a
lightning rod for public frustration when Italy’s team lost a key game, as
was the case earlier this week in the world cup semifinal.
现正效力于伊斯坦堡顶尖球队的Egonu，时常是意大利队输掉关键比赛时，失望大众发泄不
满的对象，一如这周早前的世界杯（应该是指世锦赛）四强。
“It makes me laugh reading people who ask why I am Italian,” Egonu said in
an interview with Sky Sport. “I ask myself why I represent such people.”
“我看到有人问我为什么是意大利人时，真的笑出来”，Egonu在接受Sky Sport的访问时
表示，“我自问为什么应该代表这种人出赛。”
Italy’s sports is rife with racism, with Black players routinely subjected
to booing and chants from fans of rival teams. Beyond sports, the only person
of color to have been appointed a government minister, Cecile Kyenge, was
regularly targeted with racial slurs while she served as minister for
integration almost a decade ago.
意大利运动界充斥着种族主义，尤其黑人运动员必须面对敌队粉丝的嘘声，已经是常态。
在体育界以外，作为意大利唯一一位曾被任命为部长的黑人政治家，西西莉‧坎基十年前
任职社会融合部部时，亦时常面临具种族歧视色彩的诋毁。
The attacks against Egonu signal “a stereotyped, racist mindset,” Italy’s
anti-racial-discrimination office said in a tweet. “It’s called racism,
they are called racists,” outgoing Equal Opportunities Minister Elena
Bonetti said after Egonu’s comments.
意大利的反种族歧视办公室在一则推特中表示，攻击Egonu的言论是“一种标准的种族主义
思维”。机会平等部部长Elena Bonetti在Egonu的声明后这样说：“这是种族主义，他们
是种族主义分子。”
Egonu was already the subject of attacks after she announced she was in a
same-sex relationship in 2018.
早在2018年，Egonu就已经因为公开他当时的同性亲密关系，而饱受攻击。
The right-wing coalition that won last month’s Italian election chose as
speaker of the lower house an ultra-conservative known for hard-line
positions on LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage, as well as for his
admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After their phone call, Draghi said Egonu was “a pride of Italian sport”
and that she’ll have “future opportunities to other trophies wearing the
national team jersey,” he said on Twitter.
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看到国外已经吵翻天，还没有人分享，先贴过来。只翻了一部分，如果版友有兴趣，
再慢慢翻完。所以季军战Egonu心情不好不是大家的错觉，而是他真的处于很大的压力之中
。此外，四强垫底的美国队也是被美国乡民各种批评，砲火猛烈到退休的成员或亲友忍不
出来缓颊。
原来国球是赢球到处都有......运动员竞技已经够难了，还要面对乡民、甚至酸民的
语言，真的很辛苦Qwq