A record 13-match disqualification occurs in the Pordenone provincial Youth Under 15 championship. The protagonist is a young football player from Calcio Bannia. The territorial sports judge uses a heavy hand, at the end of a kind of investigation based on the collection of information and explanations of the incident, given by the game director in the “additional” hearing on Monday 14 October , at the headquarters of The Delegation of FIGC in Pordenone.
INSIGHTS
THE BACKGROUND
We return on Sunday 6 October, the second first leg of the championship. The Corva – Calcio Bannia match ended with the locals winning 1-0. Afterwards the sports judge approved the result with reservations about the disciplinary measures against the young protagonist, who is therefore “suspended from all activities pending further investigation”.
RECONSTRUCTION
The 13-match ban, including 3 for attempted assault on the referee, has a detailed reconstruction of what happened after 90 minutes of play. “At the end of the match, inside the pitch – we read in the official press release issued by the Federation – the Calcio Bannia player approached the referee and later spoke to him with a racially discriminatory phrase, which was specified in the scoresheet and in minutes. of the hearing”. Hence the eviction notice. “After this decision – we further read – in the presence of various players from both teams, the player under the age of 15, again to the director of the game, shouted a no respectful phrase, repeating the same racially discriminatory phrase”. Several players from both teams were in the vicinity and during the hearing the referee clearly stated that he was “very hurt by the mentioned sentences”.
It is not enough. Return the calendar to that black Sunday Sunday for the whole planet, especially the youth players, we read: “Next, the player tried to attack the referee, without success, thanks to the intervention of the players of both teams and the manager of Calcio Bannia who accompanied him to the changing rooms”.
THE REACTIONS
The company led by Nicola De Bortoli, in the days immediately after the incident, officially apologized to the entire Federation and the “Crescentino Fini” Referees Association of Maniago: section of origin of the “target” match director . Bruno Rucco, sporting director and right hand of the manager of the Biancoceleste academy Cristian Morson, as lapidary as he is clear: «We know that the boy made a mistake and the disqualification imposed on him is the price he will pay. We haven’t made the internal steps yet, but coming to train without playing I think is a big back stone. What’s more, he realized what he did, just a few minutes after returning to the locker room.” Christian Vaccher, former referee and new deputy vice president of the regional LND, as well as a native of Bannia, did not y doubt: “I will not go into the merits of the sentence, but I know that the club immediately apologized. I know this fact, which also deals with social issues, especially at the ethical level. This is not an easy task for managers. If on the one hand we have to protect the referees, on the other hand we cannot mark a child who has made a mistake. This, not only at the level of football, or sport in general, but also as a civil society. We need to make sure that mistakes are always transformed into growth factors. “