Gabriele Gravina, president of Figc

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04 March 2020 '' Taking into account the provisions issued and the further indications received by the government to deal with the Coronavirus emergency and safeguard public health, in order to avoid the interruption of the sports competition, as well as to ensure its performance and allow its conclusion, Until further determination, the FIGC has arranged with a specific provision that all matches organized by the Serie A League be played behind closed doors ''. This was communicated by the FIGC.

Gravina: "We lose sharing and joy of the sporting event"
"Closed doors mortify values ​​such as sharing and the joy of the sporting event. But football can no longer stop. We must go on, respecting the ordinances": the president of the Federcalcio Gabriele Gravina said in an interview with Corriere della Sera , commenting on the repercussions of coronavirus on calcium. "We adapt in the interest of the general interest. We must go on following the directives of the government" adds the number one of the FIGC. As for the way in which the Football League is managing the situation, Gravina says: "I renewed the invitation to unity and a sense of responsibility, both within the League and outside. Only by being all together can problems be solved and it grows. It is precisely in this spirit that in the summer we asked to bring the start of Serie A forward by a week or two. If the League had listened to us we would not have found ourselves in this situation ". Finally, a jab to the president of Inter Zhang who in recent days has addressed very harsh words to the president of the football league Dal Pino: "That of the president of Inter is a language that does not belong to me, nor do I share it. Everyone is responsible for this he says. His reasons are asserted in a correct institutional dialectic ".