ROME. The Serie A sports judge, Gerardo Mastrandrea, rejected Udinese’s appeal and confirmed the result of the match played against Atalanta and ended 6-2 for the Bergamo side.
Udinese had filed an appeal after, due to the numerous positivity in the team group, on January 9, they had to face Atalanta with a strongly rearranged formation, losing 2-6 and asking for the match to be repeated. The sports judge, in rejecting the appeal, underlined that “the match in question, approved by this Judge, appears to have been disputed, as far as it can be questioned, according to the canons of the most complete regularity, also having regard to the minimum requirements of the Fundamental Rules of the Giuoco del Calcio (in particular Rule 3) on the number of players and the composition of the teams. The match was then duly completed, as per the referee report of the designated match director ». “The art. 48 of the NOIF, also invoked by the complainant – writes the sports judge – in the part in which it states, in paragraph 3, that ‘in all the matches of the official activity it is obligatory for the clubs to field their teams in the best formation allowed by their technical situation ‘, is clearly a rule aimed at guaranteeing the regularity and sportsmanship of the competitions, apart from the position and ranking interests, and for this purpose it introduces a clear’ obligation ‘to field the best possible formation always and in any case , which, however, cannot translate, as the applicant would like, into an alleged ‘right’ to field the best possible formation, which in this case would have been harmed by the ‘imposition’ to play. Interpretation that would lead to the paradoxical consequences of being able to contest every race played, even in the face of only one absence in the reference team “.