Disappointment as Senegal Captain Suffers Racist Abuse During Serie A Game

• Khalidou Koulibaly has suffered racist abuse in Napoli's Serie A clash against Atalanta on Sunday in Bergamo
• The Senegal captain starred as Napoli defeated their host at the Atleti Azzuri d'Italia stadium on matchday 31 of the league
• The Senegal Football Federation has sent words of encouragement to their captain after the abuse he suffered

Senegal captain Khalidou Koulibaly suffered racist abuse during Napoli's Serie A clash against Atalanta in Bergamo on Sunday.

The defender played a key role as the Serie A title chasers defeated their host 3-1 at the Atleti Azzuri d'Italia stadium.

The Senegalese Football Federation revealed their player suffered the abuse and in a post on Twitter, sent words of encouragement to their AFCON winning captain.

"As with their sad habits, some bergamaschi supporters, from Atalanta de Bergamo, have again repeated their human nonsense by uttering despicable and racist insults aimed at our captain and leader Kalidou Koulibaly," wrote the Senegalese Football Federation.

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"These brainless idiots have no place in a stadium. Force yourselves Kalidou, the Senegalese people support you wholeheartedly and stand as one man to be proud of your courage, your bravery, your exemplarity and your belonging to our race and our country," continued the federation.

The Federation then showed support to Koulibaly as he stood firm in the face of abuse.

"Captain courage, they will never reach you. You yourself said it during the reception at the Palace of the Republic after our victory at the CAN: "We are killed but we are not dishonored". Senegal and Africa are proud of you.

"You are the intractable defender of our color, our identity and our culture. That's why you're the most beautiful and the strongest."

Khalidou Koulibaly led Senegal to their first ever AFCON success earlier this year after the Teranga Lions defeated Egypt on penalties in Cameroon.

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Khalidou Koulibaly consoles Egypt defender Abdulmoneim

Earlier, Sports Brief reported that veteran defender Khalidou Koulibaly could not help it but to console young defender Abdoulmoneim of Egypt after Senegal's AFCON victory over the North Africans.

Ahmed Abdoulmoneim shed tears of pain after seeing his side lose to Senegal on penalties in the final, but Koulibaly quickly moved to him to inspire after showing glimpses of a promising future at the Nations Cup.

In a video posted on Twitter, Koulibaly in seen given a hug to the defender as he showered him with words of encouragement.