Letter to a championship that was never born. Fake ranking due to the fault of those who had the genius to insert super cups and bizarre away games into the middle of an already precarious tournament, this time due to defined responsibilities of referees and managers of the Serie A league. The choice of the reddish ball ended up in the coal sack, like that of the match in Perth, ridiculous and clear signs of how Italian football is managed, which has already made itself known with two failures to qualify for the World Cup, leaving the epilogue of the play off against Northern Ireland, March 26. Better not to imagine a possible new debacle or perhaps it would be ideal for the revolution.
The refereeing situation does not need any new comments, the game has become complicated not due to tactical or technical issues but because the rules are written by those who do not have the competitive spirit of this wonderful game in their blood. The multiplication of judges, a cunning maneuver to increase the number of electoral votes to reaffirm power, did not make the work of the race directors and their assistants any easier.
A sudden enlightenment on offside has come from FIFA, Infantino has announced that a reform of the rule is being studied, we will return to the origins, the player will be considered offside (this means) when he is TOTALLY beyond the line of the penultimate defending defender, as happens with goal technology, the ball completely beyond the white goal line. A logical revision, therefore sensational, given the bureaucratic mentality of those who have football in their hands. To understand this system I suggest reading the interview that Zvonimir Boban gave to Nick Ames of The Guardian, a long confession to explain his negative experience which ended with Infantino (for the peace prize to Trump «Disrespectful and irresponsible. I couldn’t witness. I was surprised that he started thinking this way, too political, obsessed with politicians and all those stories») and Ceferin (at the time Boban criticized Ceferin’s «personal aspirations»; in response, Ceferin told the Guardian that Boban “does not deserve my comment”). Football must return to the players as long as they themselves stop acting, pretending, simulating, thus betraying not the referee but the public.
A year of serious commitments is about to begin, the Italian clubs and the Italian national team are called to demonstrate on the field what
which football managers and politicians have not been and are not capable of achieving, in their shared interests. We need facts and not talk, we need the ball which is different from football. The rest is fog.
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