Udinese, Marino: “A martyrdom. It’s not football, it looks like a bar tournament”

“It was not a match, but a martyrdom”. These are the bitter words of Pierpaolo Marino at the end of the match between Udinese and Atalanta, won 6-2 by the Orobics. “It is impossible to make a technical comment, for the simple reason that there has been no match. I’m here, instead of coaches and players, because what could they comment?”.

“A disgrace”

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The director of the technical area then commented on the management of the delicate pandemic situation linked to the growing Covid cases in the team group. “The players and the staff were forced to gather on Sunday morning as in the bar tournament, some barely negative after two weeks of stoppage. On the bench there were young players from the Primavera who have been stopped for 20 days. Udinese’s critical situation is under for all to see. In 44 years of profession I have never seen such things. It is a situation of great embarrassment, whoever decides does not care about the situation in Udine. The result that will remain in the annals will be remembered as a disgrace, but the players and the coach were heroes, good at doing what they could “.

the attack

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The manager attacks “We just have to ask ourselves why all this happened. It is said that in this way we want to save the broadcasters, but what spectacle was there today? Today there was no Udinese on the pitch that they had before Christmas beat Cagliari 4-0, we had to send players who were in quarantine onto the pitch and now we’ll see if there will be any consequences for their health. ” And then: “On the day of the match against Fiorentina – concludes Marino – two of our other players were positivized: ASL did well not to let us leave, we would have risked infecting our opponents as well. way you want to save football “.