Refereeing supervisor Andrea Gervasoni spoke to investigators for 4 hours in the present day and insists he’s ‘100 per cent certain the VAR audio for Inter-Roma was not manipulated.’
Italian soccer is coping with yet one more scandal after chief Serie A and B refereeing designator Gianluca Rocchi was positioned
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Up to now there are additionally one other 4 figures underneath investigation, all from the refereeing world, and the interrogations started in the present day in .
Whereas Rocchi refused to attend, former referee and till not too long ago VAR supervisor Gervasoni, who suspended himself following the investigation, did sit down for a four-hour assembly.
Gervasoni solutions questions in referee investigation
VERONA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 03: Referee Andrea Gervasoni through the Serie A match between and at Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi on November 3, 2013 in Verona, Italy. (Picture by Claudio Villa/Getty Photographs)
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“I put myself on the disposal of the Justice of the Peace and now I’ll wait. I gave all of the solutions that I wanted to,”
He and his lawyer Michele Ducci confirmed that they have been particularly requested about two matches.
“We talked about Salernitana-Modena, however we clarified that Gervasoni was in a unique constructing. He was following Serie A, not Serie B video games, so he didn’t intervene in any means.”
MILAN, ITALY – OCTOBER 05: Yann Aurel Bisseck of in motion through the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on October 05, 2024 in Milan, . (Picture by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
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One other query was in regards to the Inter-Roma match final season, when a penalty was not awarded to the Nerazzurri for ’s shirt tug on Yann Bisseck.
“On this case too, we clarified that Gervasoni was not concerned,” mentioned his lawyer. “The footage additionally clarifies it. All of it occurs in 15 seconds, there wouldn’t even be time to intervene.
“They requested us a fast query about that and nothing extra.”
The incident was proven on DAZN Italia tv programme Open VAR, the place the footage of the VAR is performed with actual time audio from the referee and people within the sales space.
Nonetheless, it’s reported the footage proven lasted solely 37 seconds, lacking 50-60 seconds from the unique clip.
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Gervasoni himself then spoke to the reporters about these allegations.
“I’m 100 per cent certain the audio for Inter-Roma was not manipulated. However we didn’t see the clip in the present day.”
TURIN, ITALY – OCTOBER 17: Referee Andrea Gervasoni alerts a foul through the Serie A match between Torino FC and at Stadio Olimpico di Torino on October 17, 2015 in Turin, Italy. (Picture by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Photographs)
When it got here to the supposed assembly at San Siro on April 2 the place Rocchi is accused of colluding with unknown figures to ensure Daniele Doveri was not assigned to large Inter matches, Gervasoni’s lawyer distanced himself.
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“That was not within the accusations and we didn’t speak about it, so I don’t know who was there on that April 2 assembly. We all know nothing in regards to the presumed favouritism for referees, as a result of these weren’t put to us. We aren’t Rocchi.”