FIGC chief Gabriele Gravina has rejected talk of discrimination against football, assuring ‘the horizon offered by the government allows’ the season to restart.
The situation has been clouded further by the FIGC’s medical protocol to safeguard players and coaches being deemed insufficient, but Gravina is ready to cooperate with authorities to make amendments where necessary.
FIGC chief Gabriele Gravina has rejected talk of discrimination against football, assuring ‘the horizon offered by the government allows’ the season to restart.
The situation has been clouded further by the FIGC’s medical protocol to safeguard players and coaches being deemed insufficient, but Gravina is ready to cooperate with authorities to make amendments where necessary.
“We’ve always said that we’d like to restart once the conditions have been met, and the horizon offered by the government allows us to do that,” he told reporters.
“We’re convinced of the path that we’ve taken because it’s a serious and responsible one, the only one that serves the general interest of the system and Italian sport which, for several reasons, would also be damaged by abandonment of the Serie A season.
“Our medical and scientific commission has drawn up a very rigorous protocol, as did all the other sectors that want to restart, but we’re ready to integrate it and modify it by implanting the guidelines of the commission, CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee) and recognising the FMSI (Italian Sports Medicine Federation) as a scientific reference to harmonise everything.”