MILAN — The Italian Soccer Coaches’ Association is pushing for Israel to be suspended from international competition over the war in Gaza.

Ahead of Italy’s crucial World Cup qualifiers against Israel in the next two months, the AIAC says “Israel must stop. Soccer must also take action.”

The AIAC has written a formal letter to the Italian soccer federation, to be forwarded to European and world soccer’s governing bodies, calling for Israel to be suspended.

Gabriele Gravina, the president of the Italian soccer federation, is also senior vice president of UEFA.

“The AIAC Board of Directors unanimously believes that, given the daily massacres, which have also resulted in hundreds of deaths among managers, coaches, and athletes … it is legitimate, necessary, indeed a duty, to place at the c

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