"I will wait with full impartiality for the result not only because this is my role that requires me to cheer for the referees and not for the teams, but also for what I said" speaking of loyalty and fairness. This was said by President Sergio Mattarella in a brief speech at the Quirinale receiving the teams and managers of Inter and Fiorentina who will face each other tomorrow in Rome for the final of the Italian Cup.
"It will be an event of great sporting importance and this message that you will send before the kick-off will be important to show that football is not just a sport but there are many relevant components that are not separated from social life," Mattarella stressed. "I will not be able to come - he explained - because tomorrow I will receive the president of the Republic of Angola but I will try to see the game later. I am sure that it will be a meeting of high technical and sporting level and that it will be marked by great loyalty and fairness. It is very nice to see before the exchange of greetings and after the hugs between the players of the opposing teams. Certainly there will be loyalty and fairness tomorrow, without dangerous voluntary fouls and without simulations. The simulations - he added with a joke - are like a virus, like Covid that exploded all over the world, as we saw at the World Cup in Qatar. But I am sure that it is a subject that will be foreign to your meeting. I hope that the fans will also respect each other, applauding however it goes."