Public, piracy and tax reform, Vezzali active on all fronts for ‘return to normality’

After the summer with the Azzurri successes at the European Championships and at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, the Undersecretary of Sports Valentina Vezzali is ready to tackle all the issues on the table and in particular the return of the public in the stadiums in increasing numbers, the theme of sports facilities thanks to the PNRR, the fight against piracy and tax reform, as he underlined in an interview with Adnkronos in view of the Council and the National Council of Coni in which he will participate tomorrow. “Does Serie A ask to be heard by the Government on the return to 100% capacity in stadiums? Taking up the requests of the world of sport, I immediately made a commitment to expand the capacity in stadiums and arenas. Dialogue with the CTS it is constant and continuous, it is our priority to get everything back to normal “, explained Vezzali on the request of Serie A, reaffirmed today by the president Paolo Dal Pino, to return the capacity in the stadiums to 100%. “I understand the economic hardships especially for indoor sports, which is why I am working in parallel on a series of support interventions for the whole sector”, added Vezzali, referring to all the sports facilities. A theme that we want to address also thanks to the funds that will come from the NRP. “I want to take this opportunity to improve the sports facilities of our country and to make” sport for all truly accessible to all “, underlined Vezzali, who also responded to the requests of the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina.” The requests are absolutely acceptable, tomorrow I will talk about it in the National Council, I am putting in place a Government task force that will put a hand once and for all to the tax reform for the whole world of Sport, therefore also for football, but we cannot but ask football for cost control and adequate internal reforms that justify the government’s efforts by using public money. The sector must be supported, but at the same time it must be consolidated in a sustainable way. “Another very important issue in sport, especially football, is that linked to piracy.” We are gathering the right information to convene a table with Lega Serie A. , the competent police forces and operators, to work and find an immediate formula to stem the phenomenon of piracy, but at the moment sport thanks to streaming broadcasts is a driving force for the digitization of the country, we must support this development. Sport is also this. Innovation! “, Vezzali stressed to Adnkronos, who also spoke of the change in distribution of matches with Dazn.” Football is one of the most followed events in our country, it is not up to the Government to judge whether, with regard to its transmission, whether or not an appropriate choice has been made, what I can say is that, as for the rest of Europe, the change in the distribution of matches by preferring the streaming mode is a revolution that is allowing our country to accelerate its technological development, like every innovation there are problems, I trust in a quick solution “, he underlined about some transmission problems of Dazn complained by the fans in this beginning of the season, where he has the exclusive of 7 matches and the co-exclusive with Sky of the other three. (by Emanuele Rizzi)