David Miliband resigns as vice chairman of top club Sunderland after it chooses Nazi-saluting Italian Paulo Di Canio as its coach
British Jewish politician David Miliband resigned as the vice chairman of an English soccer club Sunday, in protest at its appointment of a self-described fascist as its manager.
Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, said he could not continue as a vice chairman and a director of Sunderland football club because it had named as its new manager Paolo Di Canio, an Italian player turned coach who gave a Nazi-style salute at a game in Rome and expressed empathy for Italy’s fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
“I wish Sunderland AFC all success in the future,” Miliband stated. “However, in the light of the new manager’s past political statements, I think it right to step down.”
Miliband joined the board of the club two years ago, after narrowly losing a race to lead Britain’s opposition Labor party to his younger brother Ed. Labor under Ed Miliband is now far ahead of Prime Minister David Cameron’s ruling Conservative Party in opinion polls, and well-placed to win the next British general elections in 2015, which would give the UK its first avowedly Jewish prime minister. David Miliband announced earlier this month that he would quitting as a member of parliament to helm a major NGO in New York, the International Rescue Committee.
The Miliband brothers are the children of Polish Jewish immigrants. While Ed contentedly identifies as Jewish, broke a glass after his civil wedding ceremony in 2011, and has reportedly said he feels he has lost out by not involving himself more in his religion, David has described himself as “an atheist” with “huge respect” for people of faith.
Di Canio was named Sunday to take over at Sunderland, after the club sacked its well-regarded coach Martin O’Neill as it battles to avoid relegation from English soccer’s top Premier League.
A former Italian international, Di Canio was a controversial player with an explosive temper, who gave the Nazi salute when playing for Lazio at a game in Rome (and was banned for a game and fined as a result) and declared openly in 2005 that, ”I am a fascist, not a racist.” In an autobiography, he wrote of Mussolini, “His actions were often vile. But all this was motivated by a higher purpose. He was basically a very principled individual.”
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