Vincenzo Spadafora, minister of sports Italian, he assured this Monday, after a meeting with the Serie A League and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), that at the moment the championship “does not run the risk” of being blocked, but encouraged that the rules provided by the health protocol be respected with “care”.
“At the moment we are not running this risk,” said Spadafora, upon leaving the meeting with the federal president, Gabriele gravina, asked whether there is a risk of a new interruption of the A series.
“It was a very useful meeting, as always in a collaborative environment with Gravina. I am convinced that the protocol is correct, and it must be respected with the utmost care. It is obvious that we are in a particular situation, and this is valid for an important industry like football. In these months we must have the ability to change our decisions depending on what happens, “he said. Spadafora, in statements to local media.
The meeting of Spadafora with the president of the Serie A, Paolo Dal Pino, and with that of the FIGC, Gabriele gravina, it occurred at a delicate moment for Italian football, with Genoa registering up to 22 cases of coronavirus infection and the Naples who received the ban to travel to Turin to face Juventus this Sunday.
The Local Health Finance (ASL) in charge of controlling the Naples prohibited him from traveling to Turin as a precautionary measure, after the Neapolitan team registered three cases of contagion (two players and a staff member).
There was particular apprehension about the Naples because his previous rival, the Genoa, had seen their number of infected rise vertically, up to 22 people.
Faced with the impossibility of traveling, the president of Naples, Aurelio De Laurentiis asked his Juventus counterpart, Andrea Agnelli, to postpone the match, but he replied that the approved health protocol has “clear rules” and that there was no reason not to dispute the match.
So, Naples could lose the game by a “political” 3-0, although the southern club defends that he did not travel “due to force majeure.”
Spadafora He assured this Monday, upon leaving his meeting with the league president, Dal Pino, that he analyzed “the general situation” of football and that “above all” he spoke of “the future and industrial vision.”