Acerbi, what the FIGC regulation says about whoever refuses the national team

The day after the “Acerbi case”, Italy armored in the Technical Center of Coverciano in search of tranquility and maximum concentration in view of the “playoff” for the Friday World Cup in Oslo. As a program, it was already expected that none of the Azzurri would talk and that the afternoon training would not be open to the press. The Acerbi affair, at least in this respect, did not produce earthquakes, but medically it was felt. Nothing dramatic, but in short … rather makes the thought bitterly smile that the first race of a qualifying group can already be decisive or that a defeat would risk at least to heavily condition the rest of the blue path. To force us to play the other matches, including the return one in Italy against Haaland and companions with their shoulders to the wall. That’s why, at the height of a self -regulatory season from the point of view of the energies and with the Interists who arrived tried by the disappointment for the mockery in the championship and the debacle in the Champions League final, the CT Spalletti would have gladly made for the Acerbi case. Both because the absence of the former Lazio plant forces him to look for an alternative plan to mark the center forward of the City, one of 40 goals in the 41 races played with the national team shirt, both because a unpleasant bickering was created thanks to the response via Instagram of the Nerazzurri to the explanation of Lucio on the non -arrival in Coverciano di “Ace”.

What happens now

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It remains to be understood what the developments of the story will be, provided that there are. In Coverciano the topic is considered “exhausted” with the explanations given by Spalletti and there is no desire to comment on the defender’s reply, played as a real attack on the coach. The Certaldo coach will talk again on Thursday, a handful of hours from the Oslo’s challenge, and at that moment his goal will be to direct any nervous energy of those present on the challenge to Haaland and his companions. Talking about the absent would not give him any kind of advantage. Easy to imagine that even the companions of Acewho will begin to speak in the conferences scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday in Coverciano, they will try to dribble the topic. Who, on the other hand, at least on terms of regulation, could return to the issue is the FIGC. Article 76 of the Federal internal organizational rules in paragraph 2 provides that “the players and footballers who, without proven and legitimate impediment, deny their participation in the activity of the national teams, of the Lega representatives as well as the representatives of the committees, are passable of disqualifications to be discounted in official tenders of their company. In such cases, the federal president, the presidents of the leagues, the president of the sector for the youth and school activity, Presidents of the committees and divisions, have the power to report footballers and footballers – and the clubs, where these contribute – to the competent disciplinary bodies, for the purpose of a possible referral “. This is the key paragraph together with the next, the number 3, which inhibits the footballer “to take part, with the team of the company to which they belong, in the official race immediately following the date of the convocation to which he did not respond”. Inter from mid -June to mid -July will play the Club World Cup in America, but it is an international competition. In case of disqualification, it should be taken for granted in a “Domenistica” competition. Or at the first of the championship of 23-24 August. The no to the convocation, however, is at the beginning of June. Certainly not “immediately following” at least in temporal terms. However, this is not an event that will occur.

Ball in Gravina

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And now what can happen? The federal prosecutor, reading the Noif, cannot act independently and for the FIGC the story is closed. From a player who in 2021 won the European Championship with the blue shirt such a behavior was not expected, but in via Allegri nobody is interested in following this story. Also because Acerbi is not a footballer to whom to give a teaching in view of the future, a young man to make up with a disqualification perhaps of a day in the championship that the convocation in the national team cannot be refused. Given his identity card, filtered by the Federation, Francesco has chosen to close his experience in blue in the least indicated and now everyone’s thoughts, including federal managers, are concentrated on beating Norway. Even without immature.