BODØ / OSLO (VG) The police needed reinforcements due to noise in the player tunnel after the match between Bodø / Glimt and Roma.
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– We received a message at 2349 and were called from the patrols at Aspmyra, says operations manager Kai Eriksen to VG.
– There were allegations of first a verbal, then a physical incident between the two coaching teams in the player tunnel after the Conference League match that Bodø / Glimt won 2-1.
He says the police received assistance from Italian police who were on the scene due to some language challenges.
–– No one was injured, and it eventually calmed down.
According to VG’s experience, there was one in the coaching team for Roma who confronted Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen after the match, and this started the riots. One of Rome’s assistant coaches is said to have physically attacked the Norwegian coach.
Roma player Lorenzo Pellegrini has a different version. He says to Sky Italy that it was Glimt’s coach who attacked Roma’s goalkeeping coach Nuno Gomes.
– First he said something to him, then he physically attacked, he says to Sky Sport Italy.
– It’s sad, because such behavior is an insult to Rome, to the players and to the support staff. It is completely shameful, says the national team player.
Sources Avisa Nordland has been in contact with say that they experienced the situation as the opposite.
The whole thing must have taken place very loudly, according to Avisa Nordland’s sources.
Knutsen has not yet commented on Pellegrini’s claim.
Knutsen criticized The Roma bench at the press conference after the match. He said there were heated discussions throughout the match.
– It’s an assistant coach who simply behaves like a fool. He starts picking on me before the match, and keeps doing it the whole match. As little “fair play” as possible. It was a special way of behaving that I have never experienced before.
Operations Manager Eriksen says neither party wanted to report, and that if something is to happen further, it must be a UEFA case. The task force leader in the police on the spot tells TV2 that UEFA is creating a disciplinary case.
Bodø / Glimt confirms to VG that there was an incident after the match against Rome, but refers to the police for further comments.
It was TV2 who first mentioned the case.
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