Serie-A chief apologises for anti-racism ape artwork

The imagery by artist Simone Fugazzotto featured threeapes with different colour eyes and detailing.

"We realised it was inappropriate," the league'schiefexecutive Luigi De Siervo said in a statement on Tuesday.

Italian clubs AS Roma and AC Milan have criticised the choice of imagery that the league initially said: "aims to spread the values of integration, multiculturalism and brotherhood".

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Fugazzotto, who usesapes in much of his work, defended his creation, saying "we are all monkeys".