Less than a week after the triumphal end Euro 2020, which brought back theItaly on the roof of the continent after 53 years, the new season of A league has already experienced its first official act, the draw of the calendar of the 2021-’22 championship. All the news of the new Serie A calendar
As is known, for the first time in history the order of the second round matches will not follow that of the ascending phase of the tournament. A novelty that fans will have to learn to live with and that puts Serie A in line with the other top leagues Europe, who have long since adopted the so-called “asymmetrical”.
However, this change does not seem to worry too much, at least for the moment, the presidents and managers of the teams of the top league, if it is true that the dominant theme during the ceremony of the draw of the calendar was that concerning the reopening of the stadiums already in view of the first day of August 21-22.
Reopening that the presidents would like total, with the 100% of the capacity, after it had been made official in recent weeks by sources of the Government the possibility of starting “only” with 25%. Too little for companies hard hit on the balance sheet by almost a championship and a half played behind closed doors, with all the consequences of the case at the box office level, read match day and season ticket campaign.
Thus, as reported by ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ and as already clearly mentioned by the president of Lega Dal Pino, the companies are ready to ask the Government for a 100% reopening immediately, through the use of the Green Pass. Arm wrestling in sight since the Government does not want to go beyond 50% for the first few days, but on the sidelines of the birth of the new season the clubs of the top league found themselves in similar positions also on another “historical” theme, that of league reform.
As reported by the ‘Corriere dello Sport’, in fact, a dossier signed by Deloitte has long since arrived on the tables of the managers of the top league, which provides for a reform of the format of A league to be adopted by 2024. More than a reform it would be a real one Revolution, foreseeing not only the reduction of the participants from the current 20 teams to 18, as it had been from 1988 until 2005, but the introduction of playoff to assign it scudetto he was born in playout for the relegation.
As for the latter, we go towards one or two direct descents in B, with playoff between the third from last in A and the third (or second, in the case of only one direct relegation) in Serie B, a model already in place in Germany.
As for the playoffs, a formula with four, six or eight participating teams is being studied. Still to be defined would be the structure of the post season, with a tennis scoreboard, in the case of four or eight participants (respectively with semifinals or quarters) or with two groups of three and possible final among the winners. The revolution is ready, but for sure it would be something revolutionary, not yet implemented in any of the top leagues in Europe. It is destined to divide the big front.
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OMNISPORT | 15-07-2021 08:07
