(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 24 – Lega Serie A and Philadelphia announce that the “Philadelphia Fair Play Moment Of The Season” award has been awarded to AC Milan defender Alessandro Florenzi for being the protagonist of the match during AC Milan-Lazio. episode that best represented the shared principles of friendship, sportsmanship and loyalty throughout the 2023-2024 sports season. In the pre-match of the match played at the ‘Meazza’ on 30 September, Florenzi, on the pitch with the team for the warm-up, learned that a Milan supporter was clamoring for the uniform of one of his team-mates, Reijnders. At the end of the match, the AC Milan number 42 remembered the fan’s wish and granted it by crossing the entire pitch to give him the Dutch midfielder’s shirt. “Throughout his career Alessandro Florenzi has always stood out for leadership, sportsmanship and fairness, best expressing the key values of sport – explained the CEO of the Serie A league Luigi De Siervo -. We are therefore happy to award the defender from Milan the first edition of the Fair Play award for being the protagonist of a gesture of great generosity and sensitivity towards a fan, confirming once again that he is a champion on and off the pitch.” “We are proud to present the Fair Play Moment of the Season award to Alessandro Florenzi – declared Francesco Meroni, marketing director of Mondelēz Italia – who in the AC Milan-Lazio warm-up was the protagonist of a gesture of pure altruism, consistent with the Philadelphia values.
In fact he listened to the special request of a fan who was clamoring for Reijnders’ shirt. Florenzi not only immediately accepted the appeal, but ran all over the pitch in order to take his teammate’s shirt and give it to the friendly fan. These are the small big gestures that, as the official partner of the Serie A, we want to recognize and continue to valorise”. Alessandro Florenzi will be rewarded directly on the pitch during the pre-match of Milan-Salernitana tomorrow. (ANSA).