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21 November 2019Tension to training in Brescia: during an exercise the technician Grosso removed from the Balotelli field. The attacker with his head down went to the locker room from where he soon left to leave the sports center of Torbole Casaglia in the car. All while the session was still in progress.

Meanwhile, the FIGC national appeal court has suspended the closure of the East Armchairs sector of the Bentegodi stadium in Verona, decided by the sports judge for racist choruses against Mario Balotelli during the Verona-Brescia match. The Court ordered a supplementary investigation to examine the appeal presented by the Venetian club, suspending the sanction in view of the Verona-Fiorentina match on Sunday. The Court has deemed it necessary to carry out a preliminary investigation "to pinpoint the sector of origin of the racial discrimination chants as well as their perception and size" and invited the Federal Prosecutor to "carry them out within twenty days to allow the procedure to be defined within the time normally provided ".

"I am very disappointed". The president of the Football Association, Gabriele Gravina, has thus expressed to his collaborators his disappointment for the decision of the sports court of appeal of the FIGC to suspend the closure of a sector of the stadium of Verona. Gravina, after the decision of the sports judge Mastrandrea, had positively evaluated the sentence considering it in line with the Figc's policy of combating racism in football.