According to Reuters, both politicians and key figures within the Italian Football Federation have reacted to Pirlo's collaboration with the Russian betting company Fonbet.
Without mentioning Fonbet by name, Pirlo now chooses to “clarify” the situation on Instagram.
“To attribute political significance to this collaboration is to attribute to me beliefs that I have never expressed and that are not mine,” he writes, adding that the collaboration was exclusively of a “commercial and sporting nature.”
Andrea Pirlo has been an ambassador for Fonbet since October, which according to Forbes has connections to the Russian regime.
