Lazio-Turin, appeal rejected: the game must be played

The game had been postponed due to the prohibition imposed by the ASL on the grenades to leave the city and reach Rome. The awaited decision of the Sports Court of Appeal has arrived

Even for the FIGC Sports Court of Appeal, Lazio-Turin must play. The first session of the college chaired by Piero Sandulli rejected the appeal of the biancoceleste club, following the sentence of the sports judge Gerardo Mastrandrea. Now there is only one degree for sports justice, that of the Guarantee College at the Coni.

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decisive step

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For the judges, therefore, Turin could not go to Rome on March 2 to play the game with Immobile and teammates in the presence of a prescription from the ASL on the home quarantine of close contacts after the outbreak of positivity of the English variant which broke out in the previous days (eight players grenade, two staff members and five family members). The defense of Lazio, with the words of the lawyer Gian Michele Gentile, had cited the case of the defeat of Switzerland-Ukraine at the table, but the lawyer Eduardo Chiacchio relied above all on the request for clarification that the same grenade club sent to the ASL on March 1st, at a “reasonable” distance (the adjective used by the sports judge) from the match. In fact, in the reply, the quarantine times were explained with the deadline of midnight on March 2, therefore the day of the match. The League had not authorized the postponement, but then the sports judge had ruled for the recalendarization of the match. What time will have to be fixed unless you want to wait for the last degree of sports justice.

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The motivations

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The motivations read: “As highlighted, in fact, by the Sports Judge, this Court cannot set aside administrative measures, adopted by a state authority or, as in the present case, territorial; indeed, these are administrative acts of superior source with respect to federal regulations, which yield to them ‘”. The Court also stigmatized the behaviors of Torino which it indicated as “marked by a sort of ‘cunning’ which are not, in any way, in line with the principles of loyalty, honesty and correctness which must, instead, always inspire those who he participates in competitions which, although they are professional in nature, always concern a game “.

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