Duties: “Var gives me peace of mind. Female referee in Serie A? Barriers dropped”

Daniele Doveri was practically the referee of the Scudetto: Milan and Inter, Inter and Milan in the last five league games: for him, 17 seasonal appearances, most of all. Guest of “30 ° Minuto” in the studios of Italia 7, the 44-year-old match director and president of the referee section Roma 1 dealt with various topics. Also, as anticipated by Gazzetta dello Sport And Corriere della Sera, the strong possibility that in the next Serie A the female referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi may make her debut. “Ferrieri Caputi is doing well and will take away some satisfactions also in Serie A – said Doveri -. For me the referee must be good, regardless of gender. No pushes have been given for the squad quotas, barriers have been removed” . Then, a problem that re-emerged in the final stages of the championship: “Refereing the team of your city? It would be a big step forward from a cultural point of view. For example, it happens normally abroad”.

Var and report cards

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Then, here’s the Var-theme. “Once you had to manage the frustration of the players. Today you have a colleague who confirms some episodes and you feel much calmer, because if you make a mistake you are called. But it also gives the players great peace of mind. It facilitates the development of the matches. to be able to correct a decision, to me, makes me feel very calm. The relationship with the technicians? The approach is not to be intrusive when they do their job, if a coach gives technical instructions I do not go to tell him that he is outside the technical area of a meter. Then sometimes the benches transmit nervousness and there we have to take action “. An age-old and … feared theme: the votes. “The report cards to us referees? We leaf through the newspapers and our eyes fall on us – says Doveri -. Our preparation? During the week it is part of the preparation to understand the mood of a team and the tensions of a dressing room, to better prepare for the ‘appointment. We also study the game tactics and the characteristics of the various players obviously for what concerns the referee level “.

Double membership

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Daniele Doveri returns to the championship (“A pleasant championship because practically until the last few days all the goals were open”), to the protagonists (“Over the years I have noticed that the players are much more interested in the rules and are much more competent”) and on the idea that The Hague is carrying out on the double registration of referees-players. “I think that sometimes problems and protests arise from not knowing. Giving some guys the opportunity to know the rules and how to live a game by changing the perspective, makes those same guys understand the difficulty of the role and that the ‘referee is not an enemy but one who lives their same passion “.