The stadiums are full again and with them the old problems re-emerge.
From clashes between fans to episodes of racism, passing through intimidation of football players: 2023 has already been guilty of many of these situations and the AIC report, however surveyed on the 2021-22 season, represents, according to Minister Abodi, "a cry of alarm".
In fact, there have been 121 cases in which players have been subjected to offences, threats and intimidation.
In 85% of those collected, the leagues most at risk were the professional ones, with Serie A in the lead given almost 7 cases out of 10 (68%).
A trend that, if for the president of the assocalciatori, Umberto Calcagno, is "scary", for the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina,
and Minister Abodi obliges everyone to make a more careful reflection.
In particular on cases of racism and violence, inside and outside stadiums.
The unanimous chorus was that of a tightening of the sanctions for the subjects involved because "the daspo is no longer sufficient" said Gravina first.
Words which were echoed by those of Abodi who added that "the certainty of punishment" is also necessary, inviting us not to look only at the lessening clashes inside the stadiums "but also at what happens outside the stadiums".
For this reason, among the wishes expressed by the president of the Federcalcio in the presence of Paolo Cortis, president of the National Observatory on sporting events, there was that of a "
For the moment, however, the concerns raised in the past by the privacy guarantor on the use of facial recognition remain and for this reason Abodi, in the meantime, has asked everyone to tone down ("because today we reap what we sow"). and to the clubs to sever "equivocal relationships with the fans".
It is no coincidence that black footballers are the first target of cases of racism (39%), followed by those from the Balkans (11%) and Latin America (8%).
To these are added the numbers cited by Gravina and which concern the referees with 151 cases of violence suffered from the beginning of the current season to the end of January.
Just think of the most recent one by Cissè in the second category.
"We have to create a system and fight this form of boorish culture that must be expelled from our system"
concluded Gravina who does not forget the violence that comes by digital means and for which he hoped for "a drastic intervention".
Social networks, in fact, in 9% of cases are confirmed as a tool for exercising hatred, violence and intimidation, with bad performance, followed by racism, which remain the main motivation for these behaviours.
