The drafts from the Serie A League: “The clubs want the 20 teams”

Dal Pino reveals the orientation of the majority of clubs including Udinese “Those who do not play in Europe or are afraid of relegation” will not vote for the reduction

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Other than Serie A with 18 teams, as would like the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, who is pursuing the idea of ​​a “restructuring” of Italian football starting from the top, so that all categories can be recalibrated in cascade, especially in the number. Up there the clubs do not agree with the number one of the Federation, the president of the Serie A League, Paolo Dal Pino, revealed yesterday in clear words, saying that “those who do not play in Europe or are afraid of relegation” now as now – to say never, never – he would vote for the two teams fewer than the 20 competing for the scudetto, a number of participants introduced in the 2004-’05 season, that of the first historic Udinese Champions League qualification.

Yes, Udinese. The Juventus club has never publicly expressed its orientation on the issue, also because those of Dal Pino, spoken yesterday to the microphones of Rai for “Radio Anch’io Sport” were actually the first at an official level and come from the top of the League Serie A almost to clear a hot topic on which the clubs are confronting each other internally, informally: “The FIGC has left us the decision to organize a championship at 20 or 18, our clubs are discussing the number of teams”, he confirmed the president by putting a sign on the path. “Right now it seems to me that the balance is hanging on the decision to stay at 20. The next meetings will tell which is the best direction.”

The realities that are touched by the struggle for salvation, those that, except for sensational surges, can aspire to a place in the cups. Dal Pino plays the role of the champion of small clubs: «They are the heart of our championship and can be the most beautiful sporting message». Someone will say, after reading these words, that it was taken for granted, given that the current president of the Serie A League is indicated by many as the referent of the funds that would have liked to take over 10% of the media company in exchange for 1.7 of billions of euros, money that almost all small clubs would like to divide immediately, in spite of Atalanta, Fiorentina, Inter, Juventus, Lazio, Naples and Verona who have blown the agreement.

Dal Pino’s, however, is an exercise in balance, so much so that yesterday he then defended Dazn (a choice of the big names) and clamored for the extension of the deadlines of six months of contributions in 2021, a measure rejected by the Government in in spite of the “14 billion in contributions” in recent years. An exercise destined to last also in the discussion of the next assemblies on the number of teams. –