28-year-old Traore was born in Guinea but has lived in Italy since the age of seven and plays at the highest level where he reached the Italian national team.
He got a shock from the rotten banana.
- Next to the racist gesture, I was most saddened by the fact that most of the players present laughed, as if it were normal, says Traore about the incident, which he first wrote about on Instagram.
Normally, Traore does not act when he is subjected to "joking racism" so as not to make enemies.
- I did not decide to keep quiet this time to prevent something similar from happening in the future, says Traore.
After the incident became known, the club Bennetton Treviso gathered the team that apologized.
According to Traore, it was all a result of one player's "idiocy".
- I have accepted his and the team's apology, says Traore.