New referees, Rocchi: “How explanations to the fans and VAR on call work”

“Let me be clear, I am not in favor of the hypothesis that the referee speaks at the end of the race, there is no lucidity shortly after the game. But let’s do this: if you deliver a prize when the referee is the best on the field, well, we will begin to speak after the races …”. Gianluca Rocchi, can and B designator in the fifth year, smiles, a little joking but when we then talk about the relationship between referees and benches it becomes serious. Very serious. “I repeat everything: if the dialogue is on one side only, if the search for the dialogue itself does not work between referee and coaches, well, we will be repressive. I ask dialogue, always: if I get someone who screams it is not good as an image of football and then I become repressive and I take all responsibility for it”. Then he underlines: “Thenouncementthat is, the announcement of the VAR decision to the public? From today we will do exercises, we will put some crates on the field to start understanding how the situation is. Also in this case we will take care of communication, which is uniform and clear “.

It is not a spaceship

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Daniele Orsato, a new Can C design that will have for the first time in history the “Football Video Support” or “Var Light” for the first time, which will give the technicians to have two calls to review actions deemed … spoiled by a foul or something wrong. “This – says former international referee Orsato – is a further possibility of communication between benches and referees: if the coaches are quiet, we hardly see flooding or screams; and this” video football support “will help the relationship between technician and referee component. And this tool is not a spaceship but it is a computer with an operator who will have to carry on the images back and forth, the coaches will request a revision. The coaches are involved as they were involved. Race officers: so you will no longer have to see protest scenes.

We are not the Bronx

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At the start of the new season of the referees (40, while 74 will be the assistants and 24 employees-specialists in the VAR) the staff has been reduced. “The reduction of the staff – says Antonio Zappi, president of the Hague – is a precise project that aims to the emergence of quality: it has obviously been shared with Gianluca Rocchi, all to guarantee qualitative numbers”. The number one of the referees is keen to underline the finish line achieved in the legislative field: the referee equated to a public official in the event of violence suffered, stuff that will break through in the penalty. “You know what the legislative result was thanks to the government and all the political forces, the first appeal I want to do is never forget that the races in Italy are 600,000 and that the episodes of violence are relatively few, but that it never passes a minimization of the problem. We need everyone so that the law does not turn into punitive but in deterrent. The concern of being arrested must do not happen. It is a jungle or the Bronx: our referees must be safe “.