Lega Serie A brand Maldini’s claims of interview censorship as ‘false’ in statement | OneFootball

Lega Serie A has responded to Paolo Maldini’s claims that there was censorship in the recent interview he carried out with the organisation.

Maldini took the decision to denounce, through his lawyer, the censorship of the interview he gave to Radio Serie A on Thursday, May 9.

That was reported by press agency ANSA and the interview in question was with journalist Alessandro Alciato.

The journalist actually put several stories on Instagram saying that he had been ‘pressured not to air’ the interview, but there is no knowledge as to who that pressure was from.

ANSA wrote that ‘in light of the well-known censorship of his interview on Radio Serie A last May 9th’, through the lawyer Danilo Buongiorno, Maldini has ‘announced that he has already appointed his lawyer to protect himself from such serious behaviours unjustly suffered’.

Serie A refuted the claims, saying (via Calciomercato.com): “Lega Serie A specifies that the news spread is false as the full interview was broadcast twice on the radio on 9 May and, from the outset, the complete unedited version of the same was sent to all the newsrooms so that they were fully aware of it. Neither does the circumstance that pressure was exerted not to broadcast the interview correspond to the truth, as it is easy to verify since the publication depends only on the League itself.

“That interview, after being broadcast in full on the radio and after the most significant excerpts had been published on the League’s official social networks, was also published, again in full, on Serie A’s YouTube channel, where it remained until the afternoon. Following many negative comments, including to the protagonist of the interview, the Lega Serie A, in total editorial autonomy and in deference to a typical practice in the management of social channels and normally adopted in the past to circumscribe similar negative sentiment, placed the aforementioned interview in “unlisted” mode. On Friday morning, as soon as the controversy subsided, the interview was made accessible again on the League’s official YouTube channel, where it can still be viewed in its entirety.”