ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We will respond as to all communications of various types that come from clubs, Pec or not Pec, after having analyzed them in the appropriate locations. On the fact that the credibility of the championship is minata, I’m not. It takes respect for the arbitral class that plays a delicate role.” Thus Ezio Maria Simonelli, president of the League Serie A, host of Radio Anch’io Sport on Rai Radio 1, on the letter of protest against the arbitral twists sent from Lazio to League Serie A, after the goal validated to Davis in the final minutes of Udinese-Lazio on Saturday.
“It’s not my job to argue about technical facts – continues Simonelli – Yesterday evening I had the opportunity to hear the designer Rocchi for good wishes and anticipated that tomorrow evening on Open Var will be given a wide and detailed explanation on the goal challenged by Lazio. As president of League, I can only confirm the total confidence in the work of the arbitral class and question it strongly, this yes, the credibility of the system and is not tolerable. There may be that a club feels damaged by some episodes, but as we know arbitral errors are part of the football game as well as the errors of attackers, defenders and goalkeepers and as such should be accepted without prejudice.” “If then it is believed, as written in the letter, that it is a sequence of episodes that, by frequency, nature and impact, is no longer archiveable as randomness” then the speech is different. If it is claimed that there is a drawing behind, the road is that of the complaint in the competent offices”.
Definitively dismantled Milan-Como in Perth, the minister for sport and young Abodi spoke of superficiality: “I don’t want to get into controversy with Abodi. Speaking of superficiality when for months our offices were in continuous dialogue with the leaders of European and world football seems naive to me, it is a bit of instrumentalizing the incident to tell the public what it wants to hear. As a fan, I can understand that playing a game of 13 thousand kilometers from us would have been abnormal, penalizing for fans, but it was a choice not of the League but of the clubs concerned. The League only brought on the table a series of proposals and that of Australia was by far the most advantageous. But the conditions then proved impractical. In my opinion, it was the will from the start of the AFC not to want to play this race. You did not want Italy to be the first to break this taboo and the door was landed. From a commercial point of view, this is a lost opportunity.”.
“If you could reverse the two matches between Milan and Como and play that at San Siro on January 15? It’s not easy to find these boxes with TV. If you did not make that change, it is because it was objectively difficult to do so.” Where and when you play Milan-Como is still not decided: “At this point you will do in San Siro on the first useful date. We will have to wait on January 31, when the Champions League playoffs will be decided to determine when San Siro will be free from Inter and one of those Wednesdays will be placed the race, as soon as possible”. The future of the Supercoppa: “We no longer have the double semi-final bond. The next year the Asian Cup will be played at Riad and the Saudis, while still having a contracted edition, have already said they will renounce. We will be free to choose place and format. My idea is to return to the classic formula: only final between winner of the championship and winner Coppa Italia. If you go to the unique final, the date may also be at the beginning of the championship, as in the past. But they are choices that concern the council of League, as well as the place of the final”.
As the League can help Gattuso in view of the playoffs to conquer a pass for the World Cup is soon said: “From all clubs, there is the utmost will to help Gattuso. Moving a championship day is very difficult, the calendar is very tight. On the internship companies gave their availability. For our part we will try to do everything possible to help the ct, if it deserves it”.
On the proposal to anticipate at 20 the start of the games: “I am convinced of my idea. On the fact that it can be realized soon I have some doubts, there are strong resistances. These are the TVs that have to convince themselves.” The complaints on the orange ball: “We have received so many fair protests on this, there are people who cannot see it for Daltonism. We asked our supplier to anticipate the supply of new balloons. For each game you need 25 balloons, 500 balloons a week plus those we give to the teams for training. They put in production all the new balloons with a color that you can see, but it will take some time before you can replace this orange: a choice not happy. You will return to yellow or white.”.
“Is the Serie A at 18 teams a definitively dismantled hypothesis? It’s not just about Serie A, but the whole professional football movement. On 15 January the Federation convened a working table with leagues on the reforms of the championships in Rome.” At Riad he discussed the photo of De Laurentiis sitting on the steps of the stadium and not in the tribune authority at his side: “If there was any diplomatic drooling? No, absolutely. She was in the royal box, she left her place at her daughter Valentina. He took a normal place in the forum: Since the semi-final had gone well for Naples, he preferred to sit there. No one dawns.” Simonelli, finally, reveals what he wishes for Italian football for 2026: “The answer is simple: that the National finally leads us to replay the World Championship and that then we can make a World worthy of our tradition.”.
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