into the Italian Referees’ Affiliation, alleging an ‘irrefutable injustice’ of pushing some officers out regardless of good performances within the remaining spherical of the season.
The scandal had , who was accused of giving unrealistically excessive scores to referees who he favoured, pushing others down the rating.
GENOA, ITALY – JANUARY 27: Referee Dino Tommasi indicators a foul in the course of the Serie A match between UC Sampdoria and Pescara at Stadio Luigi Ferraris on January 27, 2013 in Genoa, Italy. (Picture by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Photographs)
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The decrease the rating, the less large video games they’re assigned going ahead, or may even be pushed out of the record fully.
Rocchi stepped down following the launch of that investigation, however the identical accusations at the moment are being levelled at his substitute, Dino Tommasi.
New referee chief, identical allegations
FLORENCE, ITALY – MAY 23: Gianluca Rocchi former Italian referee and referee designator for the Serie A and Serie B championships in the course of the FIGC Corridor of Fame Occasion on Could 23, 2022 in Florence, . (Picture by Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Photographs)
AIA consultant for the Aquila area, Guido Alfonsi, contacted the identical investigative crew wanting into Rocchi and alleged irregularities within the remaining spherical of the 2025-26 season.
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He claims that the chiefs assigned to guage the referees have been swapped on the final minute with no motive given.
They then gave a really low rating to referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi for Lazio-Pisa, subsequently pushing her out of the highest 25, and in flip shoving Fabrizio Dionisi out of the record fully.
This allowed Antonio Rapuano to stay within the record of prime referees.
On the finish of each season, the AIA has to dismiss 5 referees, and if they’ve been working for over 10 years, they have to stay within the prime 25.
On this case three have been dismissed on account of age (Abisso, Piccinini and Pezzuto), plus Massimi and Dionisi.
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If Ferrieri Caputi had obtained a greater rating for Lazio-Pisa, then she would’ve been twenty fifth and Rapuano could be dismissed as an alternative of Dionisi.
“The strategy of Dionisi’s dismissal raises perplexing questions,”
“The rating of 8.40 to Ferrieri Caputi is the one factor that might’ve no doubt precipitated the dismissal of , the oblique sufferer of this plan.
“All of the associates noticed what I may outline, with out worry, the consummation of an irrefutable injustice. It’s clear that the vote of 8.40 given to Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi was actually ordered from above, seeing as her efficiency was freed from errors.”