Italian national soccer team coach Cesare Prandelli has revealed that the nation's team at next summer's World Cup finals in Brazil will be banned from using Twitter and other social media.
According to Metro.co.uk, the ban comes after AC Milan and Italy striker Mario Balotelli used his Twitter feed to distance himself from a suggestion by an Italian newspaper that he should see himself as a role model in the fight against the Mafia, when the Azzurri trained on Monday with a club that was stripped of its organised crime ties.
Prandelli said that new rules will come into force and they will be more stringent.
Balotelli's tweet prompted a leading anti-Mafia campaigner to label him an 'imbecile', while Italian soccer federation president Giancarlo Abete sympathised with him for always being in the eye of the cyclone, the report said.
