When all goes well, they end their game by receiving a flood of insults, swear words and insults even to their family members. It happens that there may be threats and dangerous face to face with footballers or fans. But it also happens that their day ends in some Carabinieri barracks to report the damage to the car or, worse, in the hospital for an attack, as recently happened to a young man, in the province of Novara, hit with a fist by the coach. just expelled. The video of the vile act made the rounds of social media, sparking everyone's indignant reactions.
Refunds
This is what football referees experience especially on weekends, even in Sardinia. The island's "whistles", about 940 according to data from the Hague, the Italian referees association, travel to a football match in the regional or youth championships. They do it for passion, certainly not for money: the rates have stopped for eight years with refunds, for the matches of the championships from the Second category to the Excellence, ranging from 35 euros (for trips up to 25 kilometers) to 210 (for travel within 800 kilometers). If we are talking about youth tournaments, the daily allowances go down: from 30 to 88 euros for the junior and very young categories, from 25 to 40 for the beginners' games, with trips that can reach 200 kilometers. And for the assistants, better known as linesmen, the figures are even lower.
The cowardly aggression
The difficult job, if you can call it that, given the reimbursements, of the referee of amateur football championships has returned to the top after what happened to Andrea Felis, a young “black jacket” from Turin. During the first category match of group A between Oleggio Castello and Carpignano in Paruzzaro, in the Novara area (with the hosts ahead 2-0), he expelled the coach of the host team, Giovanni Alosi, for protests. The scene was immortalized with a cell phone. The referee was confronted by the coach who, after telling him a bit of everything, punched him in the face. As if that weren't enough, a Carpignano player seems to have said to the referee, even with gestures, "you went to look for it".
