Napoli-Atalanta, the controversy Botta and response between parliamentarians continues

The day after the 2-2 between Napoli and Atalanta, despite the beauty of the match and the excellent performance of the two teams, the dominant theme remains the arbitration controversy unleashed by the referee Giacomelli's decision not to grant a penalty kick on a contact in area between Llorente and Kjaer. Moreover on the continuation of the action, the Bergamo drew with Ilicic.

The fiery final of Napoli-Atalanta ends up in Parliament. Gianni Pittella, senator of the Democratic Party, announces that with his colleague "Quagliariello and others we are presenting this question to the Senate". And on its Facebook page it contains the text. Spadafora writes to the Minister of Sport, "given that among the tasks of the ministry there is the institutional activity for the fight against the manipulation of sports results and the promotion of loyalty as a qualifying component of every sport initiative" and considering that the referee has " a home team's penalty was blatantly denied "and that" in a provocative way it has even refused to resort to Var technology ", Pittella and the other senators ask" what initiatives do they want to take to ensure regularity for millions of football fans and the impartiality of the Serie A championship ».

In the question – which will also be presented to the Chamber – the words at the end of the race by De Laurentiis and Ancelotti are also mentioned and it is underlined that «two hours later during the match Juventus-Genoa was assigned to the home team, at the last second of the match, at 95 ', a less evident penalty than the one denied in Naples ». "Of course there are more important things, in fact daily dealing with issues concerning the South, Europe, rights, work, environmental issues – Pittella observes – It is true, also, that football is a billionaire business that passionate millions of Italians and therefore it is right that the policy of questioning the regularity of the championship ».

Immediate reply from Senator Roberto Calderoli, vice president of the Senate. "But it is possible that with all the emergencies that Italy has and that the city of Naples has a cross-party group of parliamentarians, united by the common support for Naples, it must present a parliamentary question to a minister to denounce the risk of distorting the championship for a penalty not awarded in a match? But they have so much time to lose these colleagues? In the meantime, I would like to mention to the parliamentarians, openly and publicly supporters of the Azzurri, the respect for the referee and his collaborators and I would like to recall that the action in question was evaluated for four minutes with the Var's television instruments. Var? So we question our entire arbitration system and de-legitimize it … Monday if a penalty is not given to another team that does? Another question? And the Sunday after? Having said that, without going into the merits of rigor because what the referees decide is worth it to me, it baffles me to see that an important tool like the parliamentary question is debased for a mere question of football supporters and that time is lost to ministers for those which are bar topics. And anyway, dear colleagues, I remind you with a rather well-known song that "You can't always win" and that sport should teach values, including respect for the adversary and the referee, values ​​that go beyond the result … "

Even the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, spoke of the «Effetto Giorno» match on Radio 24. «If there is an arbitration issue? There is a question that we cannot find some peace of balance and fairness – the opinion of De Magistris -. I do not want to appear as whining because it does not belong to me, but there are some well-established predoges in football. Among other things, we now also have the technological tools so it should be easier to avoid clamorous mistakes ».

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