The words of the former referee on the match director’s errors
Gianpaolo spoke on Radio Napoli Centrale during Un Calcio alla Radio by Umberto Chiariello Calvarese, former referee, who spoke about Marciniak:
“Until the VAR it didn’t exist, the referee had to blow his whistle and quickly too. Today the situation has changed, the whistle must be delayed in some situations. The assistant, when there is a potential important action in attack, near the penalty area, must wait for the action to be concluded and if he makes a mistake and raises it, he must still wait for the referee who blows the whistle at the end of the match. action. In yesterday’s case, in fact, it was the assistant who made the mistake first, then Marciniak. Was there an offside or not? For me, we have to use the conditional. The feeling is that it was regular. The conditional is a must, I repeat. UEFA silence? He didn’t clarify anything. For now nothing has come out. What is certain is that there was a huge procedural error. Marciniak will he pay for it? He will definitely go to the European Championship. Two years ago you refereed the World Cup, last year the Champions League final. The match between Naples and Milan it wasn’t his best performance. However, last night you evidently lost concentration. Technology has been an incredible epochal change, they’ve been training for a while now, but if concentration drops it can happen that they resort to the methodologies acquired from the beginning of their career, I agree. Orsato’s tears? He made 55 matches in the Champions League, a crazy number, but the last episode could have been managed better.”
