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Football: semi-automatic offside in Serie A from 27/1 – Sport

Semi-automatic offside, reforms and second teams. Gabriele Gravina indicated January as the month to give a new imprint to Italian football, without forgetting the tensions of the last period, many of which arose from the D’Onofrio case which threw the AIA into chaos. And if the semi-automatic offside today the Council only had to make it official (he will start in Serie A on January 27 and therefore in conjunction with the first day of the second round), on the subject of reforms Gravina does not believe that we have yet gone to checkers.
In fact, the number one of the FIGC had asked A, B and C for a proposal by Christmas “in the sign of understanding”, “but three different projects have arrived on the table” he underlined today: the three leagues had discussed the points of contact, especially between A and B, and had presented their ideas awaiting the synthesis in the FIGC council. Gravina still does not see the desired “agreement” but underlines that this is not all to throw away. “There remains a positive comparison between the components – he added in fact -. And from 15 January, or after the clubs have returned from the Italian Super Cup, we will face the issue of reforming Italian football day after day and I hope that a shared proposal will come out of it “.
With this in mind, the second team discussion was also postponed to January, so that a broader reflection can be made to be included in the system reform. The objective remains the same: to bring costs under control and “as a federation we will take over with clear action to provide clubs with useful tools in this regard and to improve revenues”.
The background to all this was yesterday’s resignation of Alfredo Trentalange as president of the AIA. “You have arrived after several comparisons and talks with myself”, Gravina kept specifying. In fact, the papers revealed “very clearly that from 6 March 2021 to 6 September 2022 D’Onofrio was first in prison and then under house arrest and came to Rome three times. Did he escape? Three times he came to Rome without I don’t know whether they’ll report him for evasion, but he certainly didn’t have permission” continued Gravina. Following these events, “I spoke at length with Trentalange, to make him understand that there are forms of objective liability to be ascertained and that the situation was quite critical, we already have various tensions and adding more would not be right”.
Continuing his reasoning on the D’Onofrio case, the president of the Football Federation recalled how the former arbitration attorney was appointed “while he was under arrest and this seems to us to be of unprecedented gravity”. “He had also had a permit to cure himself of gambling addiction – he added – And I’ll stop here. But we had to give an answer”.
Just as an answer awaits you from the Government on the subject of the 1% levy on football bets which he defines as “a sacrosanct right”. The transition from 3 to 5 years of Melandri, betting, the introduction of tax credit and the amendment of law 91 for the introduction of semi-professionalism are instead the other needs of the world of football expressed to the Minister of Sport Abodi.

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