MILAN (ITALPRESS) – At last everyone at his home. As already happened for Villarreal-Barcellona, who would have had to play in Miami before the players revolt that led the Liga to march back, also the Italian export project abroad of the A naufraga series. An unexpected twist since just last Thursday, on the occasion of the first semi-final of the Supercoppa in Riyadh, it was the same Ezio Maria Simonelli, number one of the League, to announce that Milan-Como, match of the 24th series A, taking advantage of the unavailableness of San Siro for the opening ceremony of the Winter Games of Milan-Cortina, would have played in Perth, Australia. After the free way – not without reluctance – of the Uefa, also Fifa and Afc (the Asian Confederation) had given the ok, but putting conditions – on all that of the arbitrator who would have been Asian – that in the end had been accepted in via Rosellini. “Collina has given me guarantees on Asian arbitrators, has quality whistles to report for the match. We will accept this condition, then we will develop the rest,” Simonelli said.
And so the project carried out in via Rosellini seemed to be near to the arrival at the port, despite the perplexities of players (mylanists Rabiot and Maignan first, with the ad of the League De Siervo who had responded hard to the former Bianconero), employees of the work (“I hope it is an opener according to what will be the future of football, especially Italian, and not a simple isolated case. Otherwise, it would be a problem”, the words of Allegri) and politicians (“a fesseria”, the comment tranchant of Salvini). Among other things, the Federal President Gravina also stressed the need for “some reflection to be done. We must find a balance between the Federations, we are not opposed and we are not favorable, we just want to understand what is put and what is received”. But to blow up the bench was the Asian Confederation, to which Australia is affiliated, which has pulled too much rope, to the point to push the League and Government of Western Australia to take a step back. There will therefore be no one that would be the first match of a European championship never played outside the national borders “due to the financial risks that it was not possible to contain, the honest approval conditions and the complications of the last minute outside the control” of the two parties.
“We were sure that this first world event would take place in Perth – the regret of Rita Saffioti, Sport and Recreation Minister – It is disappointing, but it is the right decision: we were not willing to expose Western Australia at an unacceptable level of risk.” Amareggiato Simonelli, who, remembering how they were accepted “even very unshakable sports conditions imposed by the Afc, in the face of an escalation of further and unacceptable requests added in the last hours by the Afc towards the Australian Federation and consequently the Government of Western Australia and League Football Serie A, became impossible to dispute the match Milan-Como in Perth next February 8”. For the number one of the League “an opportunity lost in the project of Italian football growth at an international level” even if there are those who rejoice. “We are at the commies,” he immediately returned to the charge Salvini, known as a reddish fan.
“Milan-Como? Things go as they have to go, I take note, respect for the roles, I feel to represent the interests, not only of the organizers, but also and above all of the fans, are an indispensable component, irreplaceable, the reason for the success of football and sport in general”, is instead the comment of the Minister of Sport, Andrea Abodi, during the press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers. “I understand the need for increased revenues, we must all give every support to free financial resources – he added Abodi – In this case the heart was thrown out beyond the obstacle with a certain lightness, perhaps before it was necessary to start from the final subject that should give permissions. We recapture this game, because it was certainly not lost, without controversy, with great serenity, we also welcome Milan-Como and see where it will be played”.
SIMONELLI “AFC CI CHIEDEVA COPERTURE FINANZIARIE”
“We had already accepted requests that from a non-digestible sporting point of view, or use arbitrators that were not ours, to bring for the first time the championship abroad and to do as a starter. Then, after this effort, further requests came, I called urgently a League Council which assessed them as unacceptable. The Afc had asked the Australian Federation of Financial Covers, the Federation asked the Government of Western Australia that asked us and we said that we could not give any financial coverage and at this point we gave up.” He told the microphones of Italia1 the president of the League of A, Ezio Simonelli, commenting on the waiver to let Milan-Como play in Perth. “When will you play? It will depend on a series of pitfalls and how the Champions play-offs will be, we will see the availability of San Siro, because he will play there. It will be necessary to wait on January 31 to see who will play at home on the various weekends and then fix the recovery at the first useful date”.
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