Bans Handed Down; Nothing Yet for Lazio and Juve Supporters
By: Martha | November 6th, 2007
For the most part, all the suspensions for the next round of games are the ones we expected: Everyone over the limit for yellows cards (including Pavel Nedved, Amauri, and Marco Borriello) is out for one match. Taking a longer break, though, will be Lazio’s Massimo Mutarelli who, you may recalled, picked up a late red card for his second giallo.
Refusing to leave well enough alone, however, Mutarelli waited in the tunnel for the referee and, when the match ended, continued his bitching the entire time the two were in view of the cameras — all the way down the tunnel, then up a flight of stairs, as well. To his credit, Mutarelli was pretty calm about the whole thing, but he was also very, very persistent — behavior the Disciplinary Committee likes to call “verbal abuse” — so he’ll be sitting on his ass for the next three domestic matches. Which is just super for Lazio, since they’ve only got about 12 healthy players as it is, and are now losing him for the three matches and also Gaby Mudingayi for one, just in time to visit Inter.
Though a punishment is sure to come, nothing has yet been decide about the racist chants of Lazio’s supporters, nor about the abusive banners displayed by Juve fans against Zlatan Ibrahimovic (apparently he, too, is a gypsy). The Disciplinary Committee is waiting for further input from referees and “the authorities” before they make a decision, but it’s though both clubs will face something similar to what Inter’s fans were given a few weeks ago: Big fines, and the closure of parts of their grounds for the next home matches.
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As far as I recall, I have yet to see any supporter group penalized for showing a “zingaro” (gypsy) banner. Perhaps my memory is shaky.
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I believe you, Marco, but Juve fans are definitely being investigated for their behavior on Sunday. I’m assuming it’s because of the abuse they aimed at Zlatan; that banner was the only one I could find online.
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Marco, for what it’s worth, I’ve asked around and been told that the word itself is almost always considered offensive by Italians. Again, I don’t know if that one is the banner that’s causing the problems, but it sounds like whatever the context, the use of that word meets with general disapproval.
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Well like I said perhaps my memory is shaky, but as far as I can remember despite such banners are frowned upon, “zingaro” doesn’t quite have the same connotation as the N word or making monkey sounds when a black player touches the ball. That’s just me though, I guess the disciplinary committee will decide on that.
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