Righi (president of Lega volleyball): “Club in enormous difficulty, nobody takes care of us”

“I am very worried because there is little attention to the problems and financial repercussions on the world of volleyball but also basketball. Our clubs have not been making money for three years and nobody wants to take this problem in hand. Our clubs are getting into debt. , while the Minister of Culture Franceschini manages to get for cinemas, theaters and museums, one billion euros for lost revenues, instead there are no sports, we only talk about football, but we are in enormous difficulty and continue to do business because they asked us to continue and do it because probably two years was to close and say goodbye to everyone. So we can’t go on anymore “. This is the harsh comment of the president and CEO of the volleyball league Massimo Righi at Adnkronos, on the difficult moment that the world of volleyball is going through due to the covid. “Reduction of capacities? We are very worried about any government decisions. Already with 35% our clubs lose 65% of collections”, continued Righi who also talks about the issue linked to the ASL problem. “We have had many discussions and referrals with the Local Health Authorities. We have a different theme, lower media coverage and different methods of approach. We try to resolve issues with the Local Health Authorities. I have had several discussions but we have resolved them, with us the Local Health Authorities they were aware and collaborative. In football the interests are so great that maybe the dynamics are different. ” “More than a year ago we sent our teams an experimental mask made by the Polytechnic of Turin, a mask that was used at the time by marathon runners who had an aerobic effort certainly higher than our athletes, to be able to play with the mask when we were in full swing. pandemic, in the first wave, but the players wore it and said that there was no breathing and it was impossible to play in those conditions. Since the scientific evidence was not such as to be able to force them we gave up. Now I have to say that from three o four months the players in training wear the mask, that of Vibo Valentia is the first case in an official match but since October the masks are used in training as a form of self-protection “, explained the president and CEO of the Lega Volley Massimo Righi at the Adnkronos, regarding the use of the mask by the Vibo Valentia team in championship matches with Modena and Milan. “In the game it was Vibo Valentia who used it first and also an A3 player who even used an Ffp2 and in fact made a lot of effort. We don’t put it as an obligation because we don’t want to pass misleading messages, since we try to have everyone the players registered with three doses of vaccine as soon as possible, and we are running for this, to have at that point a sort of group bubble. But at this moment among the players of Vibo there are those who have a pregnant wife, those who live with the elderly and prefer to protect themselves in this way, but also in other teams quite frequently “, added Righi.