In Italian football, where those who make mistakes always stay in their place, restoration start from referees: despite a less than brilliant management in the last seasons, the technical bodies of theAia have all been confirmed. Starting from Gianluca Rocchiloyalist of the federal president Gabriel Gravinawho will remain the designator of the A league even for the next two years.
The signal sent by the Football Federation the day after the European disasterwith President Gravina glued to the chair thanks to a practically unassailable power system, it is very clear: change is forbidden, the same must be maintained at all costs.established order. And it is the same principle that has been adopted by the top brass of the whistles. Rocchi’s confirmation was actually quite announced. Not that he enjoys unconditional trust inside and outside the movement, on the contrary: his well-known closeness to Gravina, who also wanted him as Aia president (but he would not have had the same maxi-salary who earns as a designator), is a double-edged sword, just as some of his comments have not pleased everyone.
Not to mention the discontent widespread by fans due to the total lack of self-criticismReplacing him would have been a strong message, of great discontinuity towards the recent management and also the political interference of the Football Federation. Instead there were no dramatic changes, also due to the lack of alternatives. The only name that could be used was that of Daniele Orsatowho is however still busy at the moment Europeanswhile the Federation was pushing to have the nominations immediately, and in any case would not have done any harm to his colleague and friend Rocchi.
Even more surprising, however, is theimmobility of the positions in the lower categories, where several high-level names had been circulating. Orsato himself, for example, could have been an important resource and started a path as a designator from Series Cif only his return from Euro 2024 had been waited for, or Stephen Braschi. For the 5-a-side football there was talk of Alessandro Malferamong the best futsal referees, so much so that he has refereed the Champions League Final Four and the European Championship final in the past. Nothing, everything remains as it is: Maurizio Ciampi in Can C, Alexander Pizzi in the amateurs, Francesco Falvo in futsal. Only the technical sector changes, where instead of the criticized Matthew Trefoloniwho has chosen to take a step back (and for whom there is talk of an assignment with the Federation anyway), arrives Anthony Damato. Between crossed vetoes and the pressures of the FIGC, the prevailed spirit of conservationeven from the minority that in theory should have pushed for change.
The result due to this stalemate says a lot about the climate on the eve of the now imminent elections. The association has been torn apart for months by tensions and split into at least three factions: the majority of the president Charles Pacifici and his deputy Alberto Zaroliclose to Gravina; the opposition that refers to the former president Alfredo Trentalange e Duccio Baglioneand then a third proposal that refers to the managers Michael Affinito e Antonio Zappia managerial figure currently in charge of Veneto. A situation of total uncertainty, exacerbated by Gravina’s move to anticipate the federal elections on November 4, forcing all components to vote first in turn.
After the FIGC had already tried to change the electoral rules, only to then have to fall back on a solution of compromise (not to Universal suffrageyes to the expansion of the vote to a thousand delegates), one of the first effects of which is the two-year term of the designator Rocchi, a role greatly feared by the Serie A patrons, to whom the contiguity with Political power takes away transparency and credibility. Today it is really difficult to imagine who will be able to take over the disastrous association of whistles, with the spectre of commissionership (so a further invasion on the impartiality of the referees) always on the horizon. Anything but a revolution.
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2024-07-04 17:04:23
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