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Italy fans banned from matches by FIGC

  • 13-10-2008 6:38pm
    #1
    jimmyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭


    The Italian Football Federation have announced they will not take up their allocation of tickets for away fixtures following events in Sofia.

    A section of the travelling support threw bottles at the Bulgarian fans and made fascist salutes and chanted fascist slogans.

    Three Italian fans were also detained by police after burning a Bulgarian flag.

    FIGC president Giancarlo Abete has condemned those involved and, although authorities cannot prevent fans from travelling to away fixtures, they can stop them from gaining entry to the stadium.

    "Until we have certainties and we are able to verify certain things, we will not ask for any tickets for Italy's away games," said Abete.

    "I feel great bitterness and pain for what has happened. Everyone knows the process to isolate these individuals is long but this is a dark episode.

    "I believe with all the technological means available we can now identify those individuals.

    "I don't believe they are fans but individuals who are prone to delinquent behaviour with the intention of damaging the image of our nation.

    "But we have all of their names and we will punish them."

    The incidents come just a month after the Italian government announced measures to stamp out hooliganism.

    The game in Italy has been plagued by the problem in recent seasons, with the start of this year's Serie A campaign marred by unruly behaviour.

    Italy's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, recently launched an advertising campaign against violence in football.

    The world champions host Montenegro in Wednesday's World Cup qualifier in Lecce.

    Their next away game is in Montenegro on March 23, 2009 and they will visit Dublin for a game against the Republic of Ireland in October next year.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/3189068/Italy-fans-banned-from-away-fixtures-by-IFA-after-trouble-in-Bulgaria-Football.html


Comments

  • #2
    YeatsCounty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭YeatsCounty


    Didn't know the Northern Irish football association had that kind of power.

    Anyway, this measure by the FIGC probably won't last until Italy travel to Dublin.


  • #3
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    LOL. If they were Brits, the outrage on The Latest Fascist Shame would be in warp factor time. :D


  • #4
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Credit to the English, banning orders and the general threat against fans that if they insist on dancing shirtless in continental fountains they will be denied football to the extent the elecric board will pull their supply during every televised national match means the hooligans abroad problem is largely gone away. IIRC there was only large scale trouble at one of their WC games in 06, which fairs fair is some improvement on their previous.

    Still, if they blanket banned all fans there would be an uprising.


    It has been in club football there for years but is national team violence a relatively new thing in Italy? Cant recall any major trouble before.


  • #5
    estebancambias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Yeah well they say that that 'type' don't follow the national team. Anyone think 500 Italians is a amazingly low number to take to a match in Bulgaria? Shocked how that figure is.


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