Former AC Milan youth star Seid Visin has killed himself after suffering years of racist abuse, with the 20-year-old penning a heartbreaking letter about his traumatic experiences

Seid Visin, a former young player for AC Milan, committed suicide following years of racist harassment.

in the age of 20, Visin, a player for the youth academies of Benevento and Milan, was discovered dead in his Campania, Italy, house.

He was adopted by Walter and Maddalena in Nocera Inferiore, Italy, after moving there as a young child from Ethiopia, where he would pursue his football career.

However, Visin made the decision to give up playing football in 2016 in order to concentrate on his academics; he only continued to play five-a-side football with Atletico Vitalica.

A 20-year-old Italian footballer who played for the youth academies of AC Milan and Benevento has died by suicide after suffering persistent racist abuse.

Seid Visin died at his home in Nocera Inferiore, Italian media reported.

In a heartbreaking letter written by Visin, the young player said the abuse he suffered had destroyed him.

“Everywhere I go, I feel the weight of people’s sceptical, disgusted and scared looks on me. I’m not an immigrant (…) remember everyone loved me,” Visin wrote.

“I had managed to find a job that I had to leave because too many people, especially older people, refused to be served by me, as if I wasn’t already uncomfortable.

“They blamed me because many young Italian (white) people couldn’t find jobs. Something has changed inside me, like I’m ashamed of being black.”

Visin, who was of Ethiopian origins, moved to Italy when he was seven years old.

Visin, who played at the youth academies of AC Milan and Benevento, was born in Ethiopia but as a child moved to Italy.

He was adopted by a his parents Walter and Maddalena in Nocera Inferiore and went on to pursue his dream of becoming a footballer.

However, the promising young player decided to instead to focus on his studies as he retired from the sport in 2016 – but continued to play five-a-side with Atletico Vitalica.

It was the club who announced his tragic death as he is reported in Italian media to have taken his own life at his family home in Nocera.

And the racism he suffered in life has come into the spotlight after a heartbreaking letter he wrote was read aloud at his funeral on Saturday, reports Corriere.

“Now, wherever I go, wherever I am, wherever I am I feel on my shoulders, like a boulder, the weight of people’s skeptical, prejudiced, disgusted and frightened looks,” he wrote.

Visin explained he had felt the increase in the racism he suffered was fuelled in part by the numbers of migrants settling in Italy.

He recounted a story while working as a waiter when an elderly white woman refused to be served by him.

The young man heartbreakingly said he felt like he had to “prove to people, that they didn’t know me, that I was like them, that I was Italian, that I was white”.

He wrote it was if he was “ashamed of being black, as if I was afraid of being mistaken for an immigrant”.

The letter was first penned in January 2019 and was sent to some of his friends and his psychotherapist, reports Italian media.