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Gravina: 'A 22-team A would be unmanageable'

3/26/2020, 5:39:41 PM


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"A 22-team Serie A? It would be an unmanageable championship": says the president of the Football Federation, Gabriele Gravina, who spoke at SkySport. "Many hypotheses have been made, but the polar star is our rules, and it is not easy to change the format of the championships", he added speaking of the stop to the championships for the coronavirus emergency and the scenarios for the recovery, among the which there are those who also think of a stop to relegations. "The hypothesis of moving to a 22-team Serie A - Gravina continued - should face a championship that will probably start already late and will still have to end in May 2021 for Europe: it would seem a schizophrenic thing to have the need to play fewer games and make an A with 22 teams. It would be an unmanageable league. " "I am worried about all football, A, B, C and the amateur world - Gravina says -. Indeed, I would start from there because it is a sector that risks losing over three thousand clubs: a disaster".