Steven has spoken
Completely agree. If I were him, I would have let Marotta to continue barking at the enemies (FIGC and Juventus).
Know your enemy. I believe the enemy here is
Lega Serie A, formerly known as Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season. This is where that muppet Paolo Dal Pino is President.
FIGC [Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio], The Italian Football Federation also known as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. They have actually recommended Lega to start the Serie A 1 or 2 weeks earlier, due to Euro 2020. So they also seem to be unhappy with Lega Serie A.
The FIGC have, according to ANSA, opened an investigation on Inter President Steven Zhang’s attack on Lega Serie A chief Paolo Dal Pino. In case this is why you`ve meant FIGC is the enemy - no, they just do their job now.
Inter are defending Steven in what is reported as an appeal to Serie A “to firmly demand maximum protection of the public health of the entire community - fans who fill the stadiums, footballers, service staff, media and managers involved – as indicated by the institutions.
“The immediate reopening to the public planned for last Monday aroused concern as well as the sudden change in position taken by the Lega Calcio and the subsequent intentions that emerged in relation to the organisation of the next rounds,” said the ANSA source.
the chambers and meetings where decisions are made (if there's going to be that meeting of all clubs).
Yes, Marotta already confirmed there is a meeting today in the afternoon. However, the meeting between the 20 Serie A clubs scheduled for today in Rome to discuss a new look schedule incorporating the recently postponed matches might not take place at all according to a report in today’s print edition of Gazzetta dello Sport.
Zhang: 'Don't mess with the calendar'
Inter President Steven Zhang has argued that he will “continue to insist” that “safety comes first” and tells the Lega to “not play around with the calendar”.
After reports about the Federal Prosecutor’s Office opening an investigation on the Nerazzurri patron’s attack on Lega President Paolo Dal Pino, he has decided to speak out in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I wanted to make my voice heard,” Zhang told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “For me it really is important, especially in this moment, that the people who decide will put the health and safety ahead of everything.
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Health is the most important thing to consider, before any other interest. You can’t fiddle with the calendar and risk people to crowd in a stadium, endangering safety and health.
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All this is not a game and it’s not a joke. It’s not acceptable that you take even the slightest risk when it comes to health and for this I feel, as President of a football club and part of the sport industry, I have a mission and the responsibility of telling people the truth and making sure the correct message is passed.
“To let the fans know, whether they support Inter, Juventus, Milan or any other team in Italy or around the world, that health and safety comes first and that we must take all the precautions and be very careful.
He continues to argue against the Lega for tampering with the calendar and has claimed it gives the wrong signal.
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I think someone doesn’t know or someone else is not doing it,” he said. “I don’t accept that you play around with the calendar of competitions, changing dates at the end or making a game seem more important than safety.
“Sometimes you have to oppose the desire of the masses to follow an event if it’s not safe. We should always put public safety first and then everything else is secondary, it comes later.
“There is no match, game, tournament regularity that comes before health. I will continue to insist and underline these issues both in public and on social media.
“Contagions are growing rapidly. We must not panic, but have great responsibility and attention: safety and health first of all.” :datass:
“The new look schedule? We have exercised an impulse action that I consider necessary in a time of difficulty.” - FIGC president Gabriele Gravina was also asked about what he made of Inter president Steven Zhang’s outburst against Lega Serie A president Paolo Dal Pino. Zhang took to social media platform Instagram and did not hold back as he slammed Dal Pino for his handling of the situation and even personally insulted him as he called him a clown.
“I do not agree with what he said. Everyone is responsible for what they say. His reasons are asserted in a correct institutional dialectic. Moreover Inter both in the Lega and in the Federation are represented by excellent directors. Dal Pino exercised his prerogatives and took responsibility for them as others should do.”
Gravina then went on to insist that the show must go on: “Closed doors mortify values such as sharing and the joy of the sporting event itself but football cannot stop. We must move forward whilst respecting the ordinances.”
10 years of FIF
