Donadoni supports ban
Italy coach Roberto Donadoni supports the decision to call off the friendly international with Romania after the Catania riots.
The suspension of all football in the peninsula, including next Wednesday’s international match, was ordered after a police officer was killed by a home-made bomb thrown by fans outside the Stadio Angelo Massimino.
"It’s not up to me to give advice, but the choices that were made after Friday night’s events were the opportune decisions," said Donadoni.
Donadoni will no longer have this opportunity to experiment ahead of the crucial Euro 2008 qualifier against Scotland on March 28.
"I share these choices and don’t believe that the Nazionale can be considered a separate case. It wasn’t right for football to continue, even if egotistically I must admit it takes away some very important chances for me.
"When faced with certain incidents, you can’t even stop and think, the suspension was inevitable. Now we must ensure this proves to be a decisive turn of events and make a concrete difference."
Donadoni’s old club, Milan, was involved the last time Italian football stopped to take stock of fan violence, when Vincenzo Spagnolo was stabbed to death before a match at Genoa in February 1995.
"We are talking about 12 years ago, yet here we are still talking about these things," continued the Azzurri boss.
"Perhaps not enough has been done in the intervening decade, as some incredible scenes are there for all to see. At the end of the day, we are all far too good at preaching for change, but every time fail to implement the necessary laws. We have wasted a lot of time and it cannot happen again."
Meanwhile, the dynamics of the rioting are becoming clear. Chief Inspector Filippo Raciti died as a result of inhaling the noxious fumes from a homemade bomb – perhaps teargas – that exploded in the vicinity of his vehicle when the Catania fans tried to attack the Palermo supporters who arrived at the Stadio Massimino for the second half.
"We were escorting a group of Palermo fans to the Massimino when suddenly we were ambushed by the Catania Ultra’," revealed 24-year-old police officer Salvatore Renda from his hospital bed.
"They threw everything at us. It was definitely an organised ambush, like guerrilla warfare. All of a sudden you couldn’t breathe, I felt ill and lost consciousness.
"In hospital I was told of Raciti’s death. It’s a tragedy, everyone respected him and I know his wife too. It’s ridiculous to lose your life for a football game."
Source: C4 Football Italia
The suspension of all football in the peninsula, including next Wednesday’s international match, was ordered after a police officer was killed by a home-made bomb thrown by fans outside the Stadio Angelo Massimino.
"It’s not up to me to give advice, but the choices that were made after Friday night’s events were the opportune decisions," said Donadoni.
Donadoni will no longer have this opportunity to experiment ahead of the crucial Euro 2008 qualifier against Scotland on March 28.
"I share these choices and don’t believe that the Nazionale can be considered a separate case. It wasn’t right for football to continue, even if egotistically I must admit it takes away some very important chances for me.
"When faced with certain incidents, you can’t even stop and think, the suspension was inevitable. Now we must ensure this proves to be a decisive turn of events and make a concrete difference."
Donadoni’s old club, Milan, was involved the last time Italian football stopped to take stock of fan violence, when Vincenzo Spagnolo was stabbed to death before a match at Genoa in February 1995.
"We are talking about 12 years ago, yet here we are still talking about these things," continued the Azzurri boss.
"Perhaps not enough has been done in the intervening decade, as some incredible scenes are there for all to see. At the end of the day, we are all far too good at preaching for change, but every time fail to implement the necessary laws. We have wasted a lot of time and it cannot happen again."
Meanwhile, the dynamics of the rioting are becoming clear. Chief Inspector Filippo Raciti died as a result of inhaling the noxious fumes from a homemade bomb – perhaps teargas – that exploded in the vicinity of his vehicle when the Catania fans tried to attack the Palermo supporters who arrived at the Stadio Massimino for the second half.
"We were escorting a group of Palermo fans to the Massimino when suddenly we were ambushed by the Catania Ultra’," revealed 24-year-old police officer Salvatore Renda from his hospital bed.
"They threw everything at us. It was definitely an organised ambush, like guerrilla warfare. All of a sudden you couldn’t breathe, I felt ill and lost consciousness.
"In hospital I was told of Raciti’s death. It’s a tragedy, everyone respected him and I know his wife too. It’s ridiculous to lose your life for a football game."
Source: C4 Football Italia
posted by italian calcio blog at 3:18 pm
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home