It’s football chaos in Serie A, the orange ones will disappear. How many are needed for each race

From the much despised orange balloon to the location of Milan-Comopassing through the final of Super Cup to the controversies against the referees. The president of Serie A LeagueEzio Simonelli, guest of ‘Radio Anch’io Sport’ on Rai Radio 1, addresses the football themes more topical.

It starts with the ball: “We received a lot of right decisions protests on this, there are people who can’t see it for the color blindness – admits Simonelli -. We have asked our supplier to advance the supply of new balls. For each match you need 25 balls, there are 500 balls a week plus those we give to the teams for training. They have put into production all new balls with a color that you can see, but it will take some time before we can replace this one orange: an unfortunate choice. We will return to yellow or white“.

Milan-Como: the Perth hypothesis has been eliminated

We then move on to Milan-Como after the possibility of a trip to Milan was definitively cancelled Perth, on Australian soil. “It will be done San Siro on the first available date – explains the president of the Lega Serie A -. Milan left the Italian Cup and the match will be placed as soon as possible on one of the Wednesdays in which San Siro will be free from Champions League Inter. I don’t want to get into controversy with Minister Abodi. Talking about superficiality when for months our offices have been in continuous dialogue with the leaders of European and world football seems ungenerous to me, it is a bit like exploiting what happened to tell the public what it wants to hear. As a fan, I can understand that playing a match 13 thousand kilometers away from us would have been anomalous, penalizing the fans, but it was a choice not of the League but of the interested clubs. The League only brought a series of proposals to the table and Australia’s was by far the most advantageous. But the conditions later proved to be impracticable. In my opinion, it was AFC’s intention from the beginning not to want this match to be played. They didn’t want Italy to be the first to break this taboo and the door was barred. From the point of view commercialthis is a missed opportunity.”

Arbitration controversies and credibility of the system

Another ‘hot’ topic, some disputed arbitral decisions from some clubs: “We will respond as to all communications of various types that arrive from the clubs, PEC or non-PEC, after having analyzed them in the inappropriate places. On the fact that the credibility of the championship is undermined, I can’t find it. It’s needed respect for the referee class which plays a delicate role” explains Simonelli, referring among other things to protest letter against arbitral wrongs sent by Lazio to the Lega Serie A, after the goal awarded to Davis in the final minutes of Udinese-Lazio on Saturday.

“It is not my task to discuss technical facts – continues Simonelli – Last night I had the opportunity to hear the designer Rocchi for the happy new year and told me that tomorrow evening will be up Open Var a broad and detailed explanation will be given on goal contested by Lazio. As president of the League, I can only confirm the total trust in the work of the refereeing class and questioning it strongly undermines the credibility of the system and is not tolerable. It may be that a club feels damaged by some episodes, but as we know the refereeing errors they are part of the game of football just like the errors of the attackers, defenders and goalkeepers and as such they must be accepted without prejudice.”

“If we then believe, as written in the letter, that it is ‘a sequence of episodes which, due to frequency, nature and impact, can no longer be archived as coincidence’ then the matter is different. If we maintain that there is a drawing behindthe road is that of report to the competent offices“.

Future of the Italian Super Cup

Last topic, the Super Cup: “We no longer have the constraint of the double semi-final. Next year it will be played there Coppa d’Asia a Riad and the Saudis, despite still having a contracted edition, have already said they will give up. We will be free to choose the location and format. My idea – Simonelli anticipates – is to return to classic formula: unique ending between championship winner and Italian Cup winner. If we go towards the single final, the date could also be at the beginning of the championship, as in the past. But they are choices that concern the League councilas well as the location of the final”.