Arturo Diaconale, director of communication of the Lazio and spokesman for the biancoceleste president Claudio Lotito, spoke to QSVS on Telelombardia is Top Football 24: “My words? I made some observations, there are some companies that have expressly asked for the championship to be canceled, while other companies like Lazio ask that the championship, despite the difficulties, can be completed in such a way as to avoid general problems all over the world of football. Which could bring these problems to a series of disasters and failures of several Serie A, B and above all lower leagues. Compared to this, it is necessary to reflect on who wants to cancel everything and who instead, when the conditions are there, he wants to complete the championship. Beyond these considerations, there is another thing that pushes me to write this white and blue notebook in a private way. I do not speak on behalf of the company, even if I am the spokesman for President Lotito and the director of communication. I try to express a deep feeling that regards the Lazio fans.It does not seem to me that there is this frenzied urge to play at any cost, but an ongoing discussion to decide what to do, similar to what happens more generally. On the one hand, coping with the coronavirus emergency by supporting healthcare facilities as much as possible, on the other, by making sure that all blocking measures do not lead to a paralysis that makes recovery impossible when there will be. If the shops are kept closed for three months, the shopkeepers go bankrupt, the companies default and so on. And this also applies to the world of football. I also support my theses for the sake of truth. Why a curious phenomenon is taking place: Lazio’s interests, identified in the interests of President Lotito, are identified as selfish interests. The interests of other companies, on the other hand, are virtuous interests: either they are all legitimate and we are all on the same level, or an unacceptable hypocrisy is being done.
Is Juventus doing everything to close the season and thus win the championship? The pushes to block the championship feed ideas of this kind, but then maybe it won’t be like that and it’s all to be seen. At the same time, this is true for Lazio: it is not that if the championship resumes, Lazio has already won it. If he has to play it, the field will decide the final classification as it should be.
What are the pressures? They are those that emerge from the indiscretions and also from the statements. I want to point out only one thing, in recent weeks President Lotito has deliberately avoided making interviews and making statements, some jokes are attributed to him that I don’t know if they were pronounced and if they were they are the result of a discussion of the moment. While there are objective situations. Juventus and Inter objectively have more difficulties than other teams to resume training immediately or within a short time, because they had a series of players who left with authorization, but who at the time when they had to return would be forced to the famous 14 quarantine days.
We have not had requests from foreigners to leave. We don’t have people who want to get away, but if anything, it’s the exact opposite: the kids are aware that in the center of Formello, which is a sanitized center where there is a medical check brought to the max, there perhaps they have more guarantees than by remaining isolated in their respective houses“.
