Serie A, the new ranking after Juve-Napoli

No more than three to zero and no more penalty points. With a pronouncement without recourse, “decision without postponement”, the Sports Guarantee Board chaired by former minister Franco Frattini rewrites the Serie A ranking and recovers a fragment of the calendar, that Juve-Napoli of October 4, the night of the discord and endless controversies. Napoli’s appeal is accepted in its entirety to the delight of president Aurelio De Laurentiis, also this afternoon in the Coni Hall of Honor, and lawyer Mattia Grassani, who is the first to rejoice at the decision: “Davide’s victory against Goliath, you can’t risk your life for a match. ” Therefore, the ranking changes and now we have to work to find the right team to play: the possible date of January 13, with the consequent postponement of the Italian Cup commitments, has lost height in the last hours, the League he will study the situation and decide what to do. The story, judicially, stops here. Also because the Football Federation had not been formed in the College, while Juventus immediately decided to stay out of the matter, renouncing to assume a role since the sentence of the Court of Appeal for Sports.

Preordinata

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The sports judge Gerardo Mastrandrea, after a complementary investigation, had embraced the thesis of the lack of force majeure, the only hypothesis not to choose the automatic no-presentation-3-0 line at the table. In the first instance, the dividing line had therefore triumphed at two moments in history. The correspondence between Naples and the local health authorities would have had two different phases: one without making the exit ban explicit, only that the other, on Sunday at 2.13 in the afternoon, would have prescribed isolation but with the logistical impossibility of being able to go. to Turin at that time of day (the match was set for 8:45 p.m. with a 45-minute tolerance for kick-off). The Court of Appeal for Sports chaired by Aldo Sandulli had gone even further: Napoli’s election would have been “voluntary, if not predetermined.” Hard tones. On the other hand, in some way also stigmatized by the national sports prosecutor, the lawyer Alessandra Flammini Minuto (Ugo Taucer, sports attorney general was also in the room), who represented in the absence of the FIGC lawyers, the only A potential antagonist of the Naples appeal and who instead censured the second-degree decision: “It seems to me that they have taken the longest step.

DeLa and Pirlo

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Grassani, along with Professor Enrico Lubrano, had submitted a brief to deny the lack of willpower. Even the decision to cancel the flight on Saturday and the swab tests on Sunday morning at the Turin hotel was exclusively technical. “And on the other hand, if this had not been there, we would not have repeatedly contacted the local health authorities,” Lubrano said. “There wasn’t even a one in a million reason not to play.” The Napoli president, for his part, also referred to the footballing moment of the match: “I had every interest in meeting Pirlo at that moment – said De Laurentiis at the trial – because he was at the beginning of his coaching career and so I couldn’t bring a dangerous Juventus to the pitch so much. ”So we’ll play, when we don’t know yet.