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Dear friends and dear friends of Tuttosport,
it won’t be short. There is no use fooling ourselves that Juventus-Naples don’t last long, with Aurelio De Laurentiis, who is sharpening the claws of his lawyers to unleash them even in the ordinary court (did someone say Tar?), he runs the risk of closing the matter in months and certainly not tomorrow, when the sports judge decrees the 3-0 in favor of Juventus and, most likely, Napoli’s penalty spot, guilty of not having appeared in Turin. That decision will be valid to draw the ranking immediately, but will be challenged by Napoli for what will be a long battle. On the other hand, soccer institutions, Serie A League first of all, but also the Figs, are determined to occupy the position, aware that ensuring the smooth running of the championship is the Piave line beyond which there is the concrete prospect of an economic implosion of the football system in Italy with the failure of the clubs and the risk of breach. dramatic for the whole movement. And behaviors like those of Napoli, also repeated by other clubs, would not allow the championship to arrive at Christmas.
But in the meantime, the focus is on legal-political battle between Lega Serie A and Napoli. The positions are clearing and everything revolves around the ASL decision to prevent the transfer of the blue team to Turin. Let’s try to clarify this point because it is fundamental.
Could ASL intervene?
Yes of course.
Should ASL intervene?
Not necessarily, especially if Napoli had adhered to the FIGC-Government protocol which is, in effect, a rule and guarantees Naples the ability to come out of fiduciary isolation to play the game. Provided that Napoli had proceeded to create the so-called “bubble” for the group of teams, after the news of the first positive (Zielinski) or, even, after the news of the positivity of the Genoese.
Did Napoli create the bubble?
It seems not, although it still cannot be said with certainty. If he had not foreseen the creation of the bull, Napoli would have violated the protocol and, therefore, would be subject to new sanctions, but above all the violation would have created the impediment to reach Turin.
What is the bubble?
It means bringing the whole group of the team together (thus not only the players, but also the technical staff, the doctor, the warehouse workers and any other personnel) in a defined structure and point it out to the sports and medical institutions. This is what Juventus did, for example, when it discovered the positivity of two employees (who were not part of the coaching staff, but of the team group).
If he Naples would not have created the bubble, it would have triggered the intervention of the ASL, obligatory because the players would no longer be “professional athletes”, protected by the FIGC-Government protocol, but free citizens, who are prohibited from traveling, because they are considered at risk, later narrow contact with a positive. The crux of the matter is therefore to establish whether Napoli has followed protocol carefully. Failure to follow it would already be an offense in itself (punishable by penalty points) and which, furthermore, resulted in the impossibility of traveling (the application of the protocol would have allowed it). The Naples, for its part, will bring the theory of “legitimate impediment“to get to Turin: why Asl Napoli 2 Transfer is prohibited, according to a document presented by the club. And the League, like the FIGC, will charge Napoli for the non-application of the protocol also in this case: why ask the ASL for an opinion given the existence of a specific protocol only to be applied? It will not be easy to resolve the issue.
Under the profile of sports justice Napoli’s guilt is evident and clear but, once out of that channel, how can an ASL decision be challenged in a general emergency pandemic situation? Of course, the protocol is a government rule in all respects and as such could be respected, but the protocol itself contains cracks in which local health authorities can insert themselves (curious, however, that local health authorities from Campania, the Napoli team intervened for the first time and not for Primavera or Salernitana, games usually at home in similar situations).
However, the battle in ordinary justice could also lead to another outcome. And who knows, Juventus-Naples it could even be played on the field later. If required. Because, in the meantime, the championship may have been absorbed by a chaos of postponements, linked to appeals to the local ASL for not playing games in which one feels penalized with absences.
If the conduct of the matches is regulated by the ASL instead of the FIGC-Cts protocol, the championship cannot end. If two Covid-positive players trigger a similar legal battle, despite the existence of a regulation agreed between all clubs and, moreover, already applied by at least four teams in other matches (including Napoli-Genoa), it is not possible think about the collective management of the Covid emergency in football. If the question posed by a club is no longer: “How do I play the game?“and instead:”How can I not dispute it?So he COVID-19 He beat Italian football and we talk about it again at the end of the pandemic.
Last thought on the protocol, which many argue should be modified. Perhaps improve, making it more impervious to interventions by local authorities and allowing only one national health authority (the Ministry of Health or, at least, the CTS) to prevent the regular functioning of the parties. For the rest, it is the protocol that, with very few differences, the main European leagues and UEFA apply. And, so far, no problem.
P.S.. And the Juventus? Juventus go ahead and think about the trip to Crotone, after the break. Juventus has absolutely nothing to do with this matter, it is an interested spectator because it was Napoli’s rival, but certainly not an actress in the matter. Everything he had to do he did, showing up at the stadium, as requested by the League, which had not postponed the game, and respecting the rules. Even those of the “bubble”, fired immediately after the news of the two positives in the team group (anonymous because they are not part of the team, nor of Pirlo’s coaching staff).
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