ACQUI TERME – Once again violence in the football fields of the lower categories. What happened on Saturday afternoon, January 17, 2026, after regional under 16 derby between Acqui and Novese, tells thesenseless attack accomplished in the middle of the field after a match that was well finished. “A premeditated attack” explained the Novese coach, Angelo Liberati. While the team was in fact returning to the cars a group of peoplein the middle of the field, “waited for our players and then the parent of a footballer kicked an athlete in the stomach while others, friends of some parents, began to throw punches and violent blows“.
A real brawl he has The coach was shocked and the Acqui management was also saddened. “We have I immediately apologized for what happened and we immediately collaborated with Novese to reconstruct what happened – he explains clearly Federico Roveraresponsible for the technical area of Acqui. It’s difficult to comment on this crap – he points out”. A story that Liberati himself, “in many years of football“he claims to have never seen. The brawl would have taken place after the aftermath of the first leg match. “I comments on social mediaespecially some threats on those platforms appear to have triggered this absurd reactionwhich resulted in the attack – said Rovera. A glimpse of the times that is even more serious after what happened because in trying to collect testimonies our players themselves struggled to explain to us what had happened for fear of retaliation“. The two companies are trying to collect other testimonies to prevent it from happening again although, Rovera points out again, “It is difficult to imagine that scenes of this type could occur on football pitches, especially with adults as protagonists“. The fight ended with the intervention of the police. With a post on Facebook, Novese condemned the incident and accepted the apologies of the Acqui company.
