Figc-Dazn agreement, one day a week on TV what is said on the field – Corriere.it

Like in American football (They’ve been doing it in America for years was the title of an old comedy by Maurizio Micheli): starting next season, viewers will be able to listen to what the referees and the Var staff say to each other on the key episodes of the matches.

It won’t happen live yetbut Serie A is a candidate for a rather interesting product, as the president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina explained on Monday: «Together with Dazn we have launched an innovative project: we will be the first federation that from the beginning of the championship will broadcast, on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday depending on the closure of the day, the audio related to the episodes that they have been matter of discussion or which in any case require clarification”. So, a kind of “moviola” seen from the point of view of those who manage the field, the referees.

«It will be a very interesting product, above all because it shows how complicated it is to follow the action of the game by the referee – continues Gravina in the analysis – we will do it because we have nothing to fear, neither we, nor the Hague, nor the referees: we want there to be as much transparency as possible. Some pills have already been registered, there is a first product on which we are working».

He will also be among the Var staff next season
Marco Serra
, the match director who was the protagonist of a sensational dispute last year with the Roma coach José Mourinho, who had just been resigned from The Hague: «Serra’s change was exclusively for technical reasons. It didn’t depend on the dispute with Mourinho – explained the designator of CAN Gianluca Rocchi – Even if he had made a mistake, and we told him that it wasn’t 100% in that circumstance, he then stayed home for a few weeks and had a process which was then concluded.