The decision of the Prosecutor's Office after the fight between Ibrahimovic and Lukaku

The Prosecutor's Office of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) declared its investigation closed this week into the fight between the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the Belgian Romelu Lukaku. The confrontation took place in the derby of the Italian Cup on January 26, between AC Milan and Inter, and marked their behavior as "unsportsmanlike", but not racist.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office summoned Ibrahimovic and Lukaku in recent weeks to give their version of events. Thus, after a month and a half of investigations, it excluded that there were racist components in their fight, for which both players should only be fined, Italian media reported. The most incredible thing about this, and that few remember, is that they had been teammates at Manchester United.

On the brink of halftime in the Italian Cup quarter-final derby, Ibrahimovic and Lukaku exchanged a series of harsh insults and got to face each other aggressively before their teammates helped restore order. The cameras and microphones positioned at San Siro made it possible to understand the insults exchanged by the two strikers. The federal prosecutor wanted to clarify, with his investigation, if referee Valeri could hear them on the field of play before showing the yellow cards.

At first, the Sports Judge sanctioned Ibrahimovic and Lukaku with a day of suspension since the Swede was sent off for a later foul and the Belgian, for accumulating cautions for the yellow that he saw during the discussion. Anyway, that was not the last confrontation between them, and on the last occasion the Swede applauded the Belgian after a goal that sentenced the final 3-0 of the match.