During the regional futsal (5-a-side football) competition between Clark Udine and Manzano C5 five-a-side footballvalid for the sixth round of the Serie C championship, in Cussignacco (Udine), the home team’s player Grance Shimba Olamba, enraged at having been first booked and then sent off, protested against the referee Stefano Tomasetig. Then, after leaving the pitch, he waited for the interval between the first and second half to reach the match director near the changing rooms and punch him in the face, making him lose consciousness. The referee was deemed recoverable in a few days, Clark’s president, Giancarlo Tirindelli, announced that the player had been removed from the club.
