Lazio sporting director Igli Tare has claimed it would be ‘a disaster’ to cancel Serie A and said the Italian government ‘doesn’t want to help football’.
Serie A has set a provisional date for the resumption of the championship but Tare expects complications during the retreats and claims Germany has the best protocol to conclude the season.
Lazio sporting director Igli Tare has claimed it would be ‘a disaster’ to cancel Serie A and said the Italian government ‘doesn’t want to help football’.
Serie A has set a provisional date for the resumption of the championship but Tare expects complications during the retreats and claims Germany has the best protocol to conclude the season.
“We will try to win the championship if Serie A resumes, if not, we try again next year” Tare told La Repubblica. “Those who say we can’t complete the championship only for personal interests have not understood anything.
“Football gives 370,000 people a living, if it stops, it will be the fall of many and Italy will lose pieces of its history, not only sports.
“It will be a social disaster. Stopping now means, almost certainly, that we can’t resume in September either.
“Many months of inactivity would be unbearable. They envy us and think that football is only Serie A, instead there are thousands of people and families who are working. We have a duty to defend them.”
Chief medic Ivo Pulicini claimed the protocol demanding the whole group quarantine for one positive COVID-19 case is ‘truly ridiculous’ and Tare agrees with the Lazio doctor.
“I can’t think that Minister [of Sport Vincenzo] Spadafora is so irresponsible that he would do it on purpose, but there are governments in Europa that want to help football.
“Germany, Spain, England. In Italy it’s not like that, and not even in France, where they have terminated everything. I think the French government will lose many civil cases against the clubs.
“Let’s avoid a summer in court. They are making fun of us, these constant complications are ridiculous. The consequences will prove enormous.
“Economic, social, sports and psychic. People are nervous and football is therapeutic. Many of us need it. Football can be the sign of life that really starts again.
“The German health protocol is the best; many swab tests and if there’s a positive case, only he will be subject to isolation, not the entire group.
“They play and if someone decides to go home, they can, but will have to pay for his weekly tests for him and his family.
“At Lazio, after the serological tests, we all tested negative and no player has ever left Rome.”