The Italian who ran onto a World Cup pitch wearing a T-shirt in support of Ukraine and Iranian women is a football player with a history of similar stunts. Mario Ferri, 35, who calls himself "The Falcon", interrupted the Portugal-Uruguay game on Monday when he sprinted on to the pitch wearing a blue Superman T-shirt with "Save Ukraine" on the front and "Respect for Iranian Woman" on the back. He also carried a rainbow-coloured flag adorned with the words PACE, meaning peace in Italian. "I'm BACK," wrote the footballer on his Instagram page, where he describes himself as a "modern pirate". Ferri said he wanted to send "important messages", including for Iran "where I have friends who are suffering, where women are not respected". "FIFA banned rainbow captain's armbands and human rights flags in the stands, they blocked everyone, BUT NOT ME, like a Robin Hood," he wrote. "SAVE UKRAINE. I spent a month in the war in Kyiv as a volunteer and saw how much those people are suffering," he wrote, adding that "breaking the rules for a good cause is never a crime". Italy's foreign ministry confirmed Ferri had been briefly detained following the pitch invasion, before being "released by...
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