Passer à la recherche
background

Le Genoa et le ''strip-tease'' de la honte

Football

1 min

| Publié le 21/04/12

The fans who brought shame on Italian football by causing Genoa''s 4-1 home defeat to be suspended for 45 minutes must be punished, the head of the Italian Soccer Federation said on Monday Giancarlo Abete. Genoa fans threw smoke bombs and climbed onto pitch-side barriers on Sunday, forcing the home side to remove their shirts because the players were supposedly unfit to wear them. It''s unthinkable that the world of football can give in to blackmail by people who are identifiable and can be punished," Abete said. "Episodes should be reported to the authorities (when the clubs are victims of them). You cannot just say that it''s always the same people, otherwise you spark off mechanisms of ''omerta'' (compliance) that can damage the world of football". Genoa President Enrico Preziosi said on Italian radio on Monday that the club had used "good sense" to avoid "something worse" happening. The defeat left Genoa just one point above the relegation zone and Italy''s oldest club look set to sack coach Alberto Malesani for the second time this season and replace him with Luigi De Canio. Dur: 1''45