A control room led by Valentina Vezzali, Undersecretary for Sport of the Draghi government, in contact with the CTS, the Ministry of Health and the State Regions conference. This is the technical-political body which from today will be entrusted with the task of coordinating the interventions of the Local Health Authorities in order to avoid the repetition of the decision-making chaos that blew up four matches of the 1st Serie A return match and also puts at risk the regular performance of the 2nd. This is the political intervention hoped for by the leaders of the League and the clubs to have clear criteria not left to the unpredictable and different interpretation of the individual local health authorities.
Among the supporters of this political mediation at the central government level is the CEO of Inter, Beppe Marotta, who referred to this passage in his statements to Sky and Dazn on the sidelines of the Nerazzurri match not played in Bologna. for the stop imposed by the Emilian ASL on the rossoblùs: “We are witnessing something quite anomalous. The fact, for example, that Verona goes to play with Spezia with 11 positives while other teams have been stopped with a lower number of positivity. The objective of the Lega Council is to have a discussion with the Sports Department, and therefore with the government, which in turn must then confront the CTS and the Ministry of Health, to ensure that there is a clear decision “. For Marotta the solution is clear: “I think that in the field of sport the third dose of vaccine must be mandatory, which covers, in principle, the heavy risk of suffering from Covid. When it becomes mandatory, I feel calm in saying, this is what the doctors say, that the risk is minimal and therefore it is no longer the case to do quarantines, as today, and therefore I would say that the progress of the championship it would have a great fluidity “. Faced with this rain of postponements, the Nerazzurri manager does not rule out changes to the international calendar: “We will evaluate in the next few days whether to ask Uefa and Fifa to move the next national team windows to June”.
Football counts on Valentina Vezzali’s sensitivity also with respect to the rigorism of Minister Speranza who yesterday even wanted to stop the championships, a line rejected by other members of the government. This just a few days after the introduction of the de facto obligation of vaccination for professional athletes (without having actually foreseen it at the regulatory level). In Serie A practically all footballers are vaccinated and many have already taken the third dose. Without forgetting that a little over a month ago the obligation of a super green pass and subsequently of the Ffp2 mask was launched for spectators at the stadium. Meanwhile, the Serie A League has adopted a new protocol which provides for the obligation to play the match in the event of the availability of 13 negative players (at least one goalkeeper) between the first team and the Primavera, limited to players born before 31 December 2003, therefore of age with the beginning of the new year. It is valid from today. A decision that goes hand in hand with the possibility of appealing to the TAR against the local health authorities that block the games. But the real key for football managers is politics. Task entrusted to the control room led by Valentina Vezzali to obtain from the government univocal guidelines from all the ASL of the cities of the Serie A teams.