Rosetti the Uefa chief refereeing officer looks at them in a bad way but leaves without a word.
Heavy atmosphere around the Romanian referee.
The poor English of the Neapolitan journalists shows a big limit of the environment around the Neapolitan team.
Let’s look at the numbers of the game, the only thing that matters.
During Milan-Napoli there were 29 fouls, 16 (Milan) and 13 (Napoli) .
The yellow cards were 9 : 6 Napoli and 3 Milan. 2 yellow cards in 4 minutes for Anguissa the Neapolitan player sent off with a red card (as a sum of 2 yellow cards).
That means that, approximately every 5 fouls there was a yellow card for a Milanese player. (16/3)
On the contrary approximately every 2 fouls there was a yellow card for a Neapolitan player (13/6).
While a yellow card every 5 fouls is reasonable it seems excessive to give a yellow card every 2 fouls.
And that does not take into account Milanese player Leao’s terrible attitude of kicking and destroying the corner flag which was not even sanctioned by the referee.
Why not just demote him when UEFA is treating him as a 1st category referee anyway?
For such a behavior Kovacs should be closer to an exit from the UEFA list.
Do you really think so? seems to ask me my retired referee friend who sits in from of me.
You should understand the politics of UEFA referee organization.
What are you talking about? you are asking my reader.
Well let’s go back to mid March 2023.
Less than a month ago (15-17.03.2023) there was the first UEFA Referee Symposium in Bucharest the Romanian capital.
Rosetti was there together with Rocchi the chief Referee officer in Italy as participants in the Symposium.
The lecturers at the symposium were members of the UEFA Referee Committee: Roberto Rosetti, Björn Kuipers, Vladimir Šajn, Carlos Velasco Carballo and Dagmar Damková.
The main objective of the conference was “to present the latest information on the application and interpretation of the Laws of the Game, teaching methods and familiarization with the latest materials that can be used in the training of referees.”
UEFA choice to appoint Kovacs, the Romanian referee, for Milan-Napoli game in Champions League is a clear sign that Romania is considered a country with high quality referees.
Maybe Kovacs was among those referees put on the list way too quickly because suddenly a high number of referees stopped internationally. In fact Rosetti himself declare during the Bucharest conference:
“"We have a major problem with the declining number of referees across Europe. We are here together to discuss the strategy for the future in order to support the referees, those who start this activity".
Rosetti gave a brief characterization of Romanian refereeing, which he says "benefits from high-quality education": “ I think the results are obvious, Romanian referees are doing well. At the last EURO, there were two Romanian referees on the field, and this is not a coincidence.
It's just the result of hard work. Istvan (Kovacs) and Ovidiu ( Hațegan) deserved to be there and they were there! We want quality, and at the moment Romanian arbitration offers us this quality" .
I believe it is optimistic to believe that there will be any UEFA criticisms against the Romanian referee especially after the close relationship between the Romanian federation and UEFA referee organization.
UEFA credibility?
I believe there should be more and more transparency on the appointments of referees and on their behavior on the field.
Uefa should enhance its credibility with the appointment of fair referees if football wants to continue being a successful and popular sport.
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