“To say that everything happened is not a way of saying in this game.” A sensational epilogue in the final scudetto of the hockey playoffs on the men’s track: the Venetians of the Trissino won Race-4 to the penalties against Lodi (9-7) and became champions of Italy for the fourth time in their history. However, a ghost goal was decisive, a penalty transformed from the number 5 Lodigiano Alessandro Faccin (irony of fate: from 2014 to 2022 at Trissino) who was not validated by the referees because the ball then came out. The protests of the Giallorossi players and the approximately 2,000 spectators present at PalaCastellootti are useless. It does not appear that the net was pierced: it is more likely that, for the heat and for the power impressed at the time of the shot, the ball has slightly deformed and crossed the shirts of the door. A similar situation had also occurred last September in the Under 19 world final held in Novara between Spain and Portugal. After the 5-5 of the regulatory times (the Lodi, below 2-1 in the series, led 5-1 to the interval) and the 7-7 matured at the end of the extra time, the penalty of Faccin would have drew the challenge again after the goal of the other former Giulio Cocco. Of the Portuguese Alvarinho the final seal on the Bluceleste Scudetto. (Rai images)
