Sacchi, no suspension after Monza-Inter

The words of Gianluca Rocchi

On the sidelines of the presentation of semi-automatic offside, Gianluca Rocchi, designator of Serie A referees, returned to talk about Monza-Inter. “At the basis of everything is that referees and assistants must wait to blow the whistle. Curbing the instinct is a very complex thing: they must not only curb the instinct, but postpone the whistle. The flag is always repairable; when the referee blows the whistle, protocol dictates that there is no longer any chance to intervene. What happened was an accident, we put it in this category.”

There will be no suspension for referee Sacchi: “I suspend someone only if he breaks our internal rules. Maybe he will be on the bench more but he will be back on the field as soon as possible. Everyone makes mistakes. It will serve him as experience, the skill is to recover afterwards, to return to the field as if nothing happened. I know it is difficult to accept but we have budgeted that when you invest in young guys you can pay in terms of injuries. I don’t have a day counter, if I see him ready I put him back on the field. If he tells me he’s okay, and he’s already told me, I’ll let him referee. Besides, there was no one who created problems in the tests recently in Rome. Then if one has a 9 performance and one a 6 we will send the one who got a 9 on the field.”