Milan - Italy coach Marcello Lippi appears to have reversed his decision to take part in a domestic campaign against racism. His role as reader of excerpts from a DVD to be distributed in Italian high schools was uncertain Wednesday after the ANSA News agency quoted him as disagreeing with Moni Ovadia, a director of Jewish origins who is producing the DVD.
"I told Ovadia that I would take part in a DVD for the schools against racism in general, not against Nazism," Lippi said. "He said instead that I was to read (excerpts) from Primo Levi about the Holocaust or something similar.
"In 40 years of career I never took a political position and I don't intend to do it now."
Ovadia said he had been clear with Lippi, who is free to give up a project which also involves Italian actors and singers.
"I just want to say that Nazism was the most criminal expression of racism," Ovadia said. "It's strange to set a limit to the debate on racism."
