Serie A, 5 disqualified. Sporting judge closes the Curva Nord at the Olimpico

Sports judge’s measures after the 16th of Serie A

Five players disqualified, seven clubs fined, one corner closed: these are, in a nutshell, the measures ordered by Sports Judge Gerardo Mastrandrea in the aftermath of the 16th day of the 2022/23 Serie A championship.

Players, disqualification for an actual day of competition:
AKPA AKPRO Jean Daniel (Empoli): double caution for misconduct against an opponent.
AMIONE Bruno (Sampdoria): for misconduct against an opponent; already cautioned (Fifth penalty).
COULIBALY Lassana (Salernitana): for misconduct against an opponent; already cautioned (Fifth penalty).
HJULMAND Morten Blom Due (Lecce): for misconduct against an opponent; already cautioned (Fifth sanction).
MEITE Soualiho (Cremonese): for misconduct against an opponent; already cautioned (Fifth sanction).

Club Sanctions:
Fine of € 10,000.00: to Soc. ATALANTA as objective responsibility for having, at the end of the first half, in the tunnel leading to the locker rooms, one of its collaborators included in the list, despite not being a member, repeatedly contested the referee’s actions.
Fine of € 7,000.00: to Soc. LECCE for having its supporters, during the match, throwing some firecrackers and numerous smoke bombs into the playing area; penalty mitigated ex art. 29, paragraph 1 letter b) CGS.
Fine of € 4,000.00: to the club LAZIO for having its supporters, in the course of the match, throwing some firecrackers into the playing area; penalty mitigated under art. 29, paragraph 1 lett. b) CGS.
Fine of € 4,000.00: to Soc. SALERNITANA for having its supporters, at the 13th of the second half, throw a cardboard container containing food into the playing area, for having also thrown on the playing area, at the
43° of the second half, a small bottle of water; penalty mitigated ex art. 29, paragraph 1 lett. b) CGS.
Fine of € 2,000.00: to the club ROMA for having its supporters, at the end of the match, thrown a firecracker into the playing area; attenuated penalty ex art. 29, comma 1 lett. b) CGS.
Fine of € 2,000.00: to Soc. TORINO as objective responsibility, for having unjustifiably delayed the start of the match by about three minutes.
Fine of € 1,000.00: to Soc. SPEZIA for having its supporters, at the 31st minute of the first half, throw a paper cup containing some tissues into the playing area, which accidentally caught an employee of the
Federal Prosecutor’s Office, without any consequence; attenuated penalty ex art. 29, paragraph 1 lett. b) CGS.

Instead, this is the decision regarding the Lazio Curva Nord:

“The Sporting Judge, having read the referee’s report and the report of the collaborators of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in which, among other things, it is reported that during the entire match the supporters of the club Lazio, crowded in the ‘guests distinct south-east’ sector, were responsible in almost their entirety (about 1,000 of the 1.072 occupants), of repeated chants expressing racial discrimination against the Lecce footballers Banda and Umtiti; considering that the chants were perceived by all three collaborators of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, appropriately positioned also in parts of the stadium distant from the aforementioned Sector; considering that on the basis of the aforementioned report such behavior is attributable to the supporters of the Lazio club who in home matches occupy the sector called ‘Curva Nord’ of the Olympic Stadium in Rome; considered that, by reason of the seriousness, size and real perception of the phenomenon, such also as to force the Match Director to interrupt the game to allow the speaker to carry out the message provided for in the case of chants of racial discrimination, the aforementioned behaviors assume disciplinary relevance pursuant to Art. 28, no. 4, CGS; resolves to sanction Soc. Lazio with the obligation to play a match with the sector indicated by the collaborators of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in its report, on the basis of the information acquired by the manager responsible for public order, devoid of spectators.”