Rocchi explains everything: “The penalty on Baldanzi, Dodo-Tavares and the steps on foot” – Corriere dello Sport

ROME – “The step was proposed by UEFA to protect football players, because they understand that this kind of interference is increasing and creating discomfort and injuries. In fact, he must not only be punished with falsehood, but also with falsehood and with warning. So much so that today we are in danger of making the ‘step on foot’ pass a ‘step on foot’ which is not the same as what we saw a few weeks ago. We can argue about hard, but that is not the typology. First there must be the competition of the ball, all that is missing is communication but it is not step by step.” The designer Gianluca Rocchiguest at “Sky Calcio Club”, speaking like this and describes the events seen so far in Serie A.

Rocchi: “The penalty on Baldanzi and the Dodo-Tavares conflict, I will explain”

“Baldanzi’s punishment? If the VAR thinks it’s foul, they’ll call it a penalty, but it’s not that category. Perhaps we are interpreting, not that we are the law written on the wall, we may have made a mistake with this intervention. Dodo-Tavares? There is a lack of attention on the part of the defender because he could stop well or try to avoid the impact. It’s a clear win, the referee and VAR see it as a misunderstanding. Today, with the rules we have today, I feel that I fully support it. You make it a question of play, but I will not go into the dynamics of the game: there is controversy and it is also a very strong intervention.”

Rocchi and the line of referees

“The fake has to be a real case but can you establish a real cheat with scale? Our main job is to train good negotiators and in the first few days they reasoned well. It is true that the modern referee is more used to a comfort zone but we are tense when we do not see them on the pitch deciding – he said – And the good referee is the one who understands the game in front of him. Then it is clear that I would prefer a match corrected by VAR than one that goes to the monitor and does not correct the decision. I ask the referees to be careful about over-communicating and to understand the dynamics of deception, without rewarding cleverness. We reviewed all the penalties given in A and B and I saw very few penalties given in excess. Maybe he defends differently or maybe less attention is paid to the defensive level.”

The case of handballs according to Rocchi

“Handballs are the referees’ main problem but the rules help us. Then there is always an element of subject matter, an explanation is not necessarily correct, it is an explanation. Returning to Conceicao’s warning for imitation in Juve-Cagliari, it is too much because the communicator is there even if it is not a penalty.