Football: Roma writes to Lega A and asks for clarification on the postponement of Juventus-Napoli

2021-03-13T21:52:27.800Z

Roma wrote a letter to the Serie A football league asking for clarification on the "reasons of sporting interest" that led to the displacement of the match between Juventus and Napoli. According to Roma, the move is devoid of "adequate justification", an "unmotivated" choice except to favor the Napoli calendar. Roma also adds, according to what Adnkronos learns, that "requests for postponement must be submitted at least 15 days before the match. We ask you to know when the request was made and if you received it within the time allowed by the regulations" . Roma also asked for the "postponement of Rome-Naples" scheduled for March 21 at the Olympic stadium. The letter from Rome was sent to the Lega, to president Paolo Dal Pino, to Luigi De Siervo, and to the head of competitions, Andrea Butti. "Dear Sirs, we are amazed to learn of the publication of your Official Communiqué N.219 of 12.03 2021 (Attached) with which the postponement of the" recovery of the match of the 3rd first leg of the Serie A Tim Juventus-Napoli Championship has been arranged, originally scheduled for 17.03.2021, at 6.45 pm, as established in your previous Official Notice N. 205 of 03.03.2021 (also attached) ", reads the letter from the Giallorossi club." 1203 2021, we learned that the postponement decision was adopted by the President of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A 'at the request of the clubs Juventus Fc and SSC Napoli "." We are aware that, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Art. 29 of the Statute and Regulations of the LNPA in force, the President can order the change in the date of an official competition following a request from one or both of the companies involved. However, from paragraph 4 of the same Art. 29, it is clear that requests must be made in writing at least 15 days before the date on which the championship match should take place. We therefore ask you to know when these requests were forwarded by the two clubs in question, in order to ascertain the regularity of the obligations ", asks Roma." We ask you, above all, to inform us of the appropriate reasons of sporting interest which, as is known, must be the basis of your provision for referral by way of derogation. At present, in fact, it is completely devoid of adequate justification except for the implicit one of favoring the SSC Napoli calendar which should have met the undersigned company on the following Sunday 21 March "." It is clear to you, since you are responsible for managing the calendar of the Championship, that with your decision you are relieving SSC Napoli from the commitment to play the match against Juventus, already officially scheduled for 17 March, allowing it more preparation time for the next match against AS Roma and saving its players ( some of which, moreover, under a warning) while, as you know, the same AS Roma is engaged on March 18 in the evening match of the Europa League in Kiev, Ukraine with the return expected in the very late night between Thursday and Friday: all this however without having the chance to play on Monday due to the Uefa window scheduled for February 22 ", continues the letter from the Gialloross club or. "All this information was obviously known to you even before the decision to move the game which, in the absence of clear sporting reasons, appears to have been taken with the sole intent of providing an unfair (and peaceful) advantage to SSC Napoli at the expense of AS Roma with evident conditioning of the regular outcome of the Championship. In the absence of a reply from you with regard to even one of the above requests, the violation of the aforementioned Art. 29 would therefore be evident. We therefore trust in your understanding and in your urgent adoption, on your part, of the most appropriate corrective measures. Otherwise, we reserve every action to protect the undersigned Company and the Shareholders and our Fans in the offices and jurisdictions that will become more appropriate ", adds Roma. "In the alternative, given the proximity to the second leg of the round of 16 of the Europa League Shakhtar Donetsk-Roma, which will be held on 18.03.21 at 18.55, we formulate a formal request for postponement to a date to be determined. , of the match of the 28th day of the Serie A Tim Roma-Napoli Championship, currently scheduled for the day 21.03.21 at 20:45. Best regards ", concludes the Roma.