John Capuano
No wonder that the first act of the new Football Federation has been the cancellation of the territorial discrimination by the rules of the Sporting Code. It was enough to have read the program Tavecchio in step 2 to understand that the soft line of the club would be passed immediately and without much discussion. There was talk of “European harmonization” of strict liability and the “extension of the system of exemption and mitigating circumstances” to prevent Italian companies went to meet a higher punishment than other federations Uefa. Principle acceptable, given the impasse in which we had a year ago driven by approving rules suicide, who had delivered the club in the hands of the ultras and forced a couple of shameful reverse speeds, but at the same time dangerous signal to start at boot of a season that will be high voltage.
What things could not go on like this he had also reported the Interior Ministry . Delete, however, the territorial discrimination in Article 11 that the equating to racism , confining it in the old system of fines and warnings without a real deterrent effect, authorizing the ultras to shout victory. The curves have folded institutions and, what is worse, they did at the end of a year in which the club – with very few exceptions – are often thwarted in the name of their own desired only to be frightened in front of the consequences of the application. Who will take time to head to the leaders of the extreme fringes that stick in stadiums command them? The new Football Federation of Tavecchio has solved the immediate problem of society (as had imposed the presidents of the League with the ticket Lotito-Galliani to guarantee the result) without, however, work on the causes of the phenomenon.
You return to the dear, old, economic sanctions that the club will pay without a murmur and without recourse against those responsible. Abroad does not work that way, as he has learned the hard way the handful of fans (Italian) which caused the closure of an area of the Allianz Arena with a banner homophobic and to which the Bayern Monaco has asked the reputational damage and materials. Since we ultras disqualified were welcomed at the headquarters of retreats and events dialogue with players and managers because the latter express solidarity with their struggle. It has not happened in the Deep South, where the pressures of organized crime are mixed with impulses from the stadium, but in Milan and in many other places. Now, with the revision of the territorial discrimination and the “sanctions are not drastic but more weighted” (Tavecchio dixit) the club will continue to cultivate relationships with the usual suspects no longer be put back to the wall.
It would be nice that from the second Federal Council you were working with a rule to automate the action of recourse against perpetrators of these and other behaviors. It would be the only real deterrent available to clean up Italian stadiums from becerume rudeness and too often mistaken for folklore and traditional rivalries. The tools exist and the package of laws passed by the Government on the DASP group and differed also provided legal cover for exceptional interventions. It would be enough to want it. But perhaps it is not Tavecchio president to deal with the issue.
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