The rules of the game of football are 17. The referee Paul
Mazzoleni has added an eighteenth. “Common sense. My
eighteen rule is not written, it should not be interpreted. Need
feel it inside, in a small room of the heart “, he writes in
book My rule 18 (Absolutely Free Publisher,
pp. 235, euro 18), written with journalists Giorgio Burreddu e
Alessandra Giardini. A story in which the 45-year-old referee from Bergamo,
just retired, he talks about his career, his passions for
tattoos and Fortitudo Bologna Basket, of his drama:
bravely managed to pull out the red card in front
to cancer and expel him from his life.
Rule 18, common sense. What Mazzoleni missed on 26th
December at the Meazza during Inter-Napoli, when he showed the
red to Koulibaly who had applauded him later
an admonition, a gesture of anger for racist choirs.
The referee did not apply his “rule” that evening
18 and did not overlook the gesture of one of the players
more correct in the world: it expelled it. Mazzoleni, who in
an interview with the newspaper Eco di Bergamo has
recently indicated the nice and less likeable footballers (e
among the latter he added the former blue captain Hamsik),
remember: I take out the yellow card e
suddenly Koulibaly raises his hands to the sky and starts to
applaud blatantly. I apply the rules and show them
the red card. Open up the sky. The players of Napoli mi
they surround me, they scream that their companion was addressing
in the stands, those were ironic applauses against racist choirs.
That’s not what I saw: Koulibaly applauded
addressed to me, he also told me good and the regulation does not leave
space for interpretations. The referee is not one of the
actors of the game, is what must decide how
judge it, which enforces the rules and guarantees the
respect”. Mazzoleni did not expect all that clamor,
also because before the game it had been invested during
the clashes between supporters Daniele Berlardinelli, ultr varesino
then dead. The former referee recalls Koulibaly
also with Neapolitan friends who own a pizzeria a
Bergamo.
From: Il Mattino.
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