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Salvini disapproving of men-only stadium rule

(CNN) Matteo Salvini, Italy's hard-line interior minister and deputy prime minister, says the decision to play the Italian Super Cup match between Juventus and AC Milan in Saudi Arabia is "disgusting" due to the restrictions placed on female fans.

Salvini, leader of Italy's far-right League party, condemned the fact that sections of the King Abdullah Sports City stadium for the January 16th game will be reserved for men only.

In a Facebook Live video , Salvini, a Milan fan, said: "That the Italian Super Cup is played in an Islamic country where women can't go to the stadium if they're not accompanied by men is a sadness, a rubbish, I won't watch the game.

"Where are the Italian feminists and [Laura] Boldrini (former president of Italy's lower chamber and women rights' activist)? I don't want a similar future for our daughters in Italy."

The organizers of the game, Serie A, defended the decision to hold the game in Saudi Arabia and contradicted Salvini's claim that women couldn't enter the stadium without a man.

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