Lúcio Correia, professor of sports law, argues that the Government and the League of Clubs have a passive attitude towards the cases of violence and intolerance in football that have been repeated in recent days, also lamenting the “impunity” of the clubs .
in the forum TSFLúcio Correia pointed out that both the Government and the League have fulfilled their role of legislating and regulating violence in sport, but the task cannot be taken for granted, because “these social phenomena are not phenomena that are revealed only in what is in the law and regulations”.
In his opinion, there are still issues to be resolved, such as the purchase of tickets, the physical separation of fans “which is not always clear and not all stadiums have the same conditions as the so-called great ones of Portuguese football.” “.
“Here we have several issues. We cannot say that we have done our part and that we have nothing else to do”, he sums up, considering the incidents with children that have occurred in recent days in the country’s soccer stadiums to be “unthinkable”.
At the same time, underlines Lúcio Correia, football is dominated by a “sensation of impunity” of the clubs in the face of “irrational and often illegal behavior on the part of their fans.” An example of this, he says, are the various sanctions of the Disciplinary Board that then go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and that, for some reason, “are withdrawn or modified.”
“The day there is a severe sanction, with a direct application in which the clubs learn that the behavior of the fans must also be regulated (…) so that everyone understands that, when they go to the stadium, there are behaviors that they have to continue, things will be different”, he believes.
Over the weekend, an FC Porto fan and his daughter were forced to change seats after receiving insults at the Estoril Praia stadium. The Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, João Paulo Correia, and the president of the League, Pedro Proença, repudiated the fact and promised to continue fighting “mercilessly” against this type of situation.
Estoril Praia reacted through a statement, regretting what happened and sending an apology to the Porto fan for the situation his daughter is experiencing.
This case, which relaunches the debate on violence in sport, comes days after the stoning of the family car of Sérgio Conceição, coach of FC Porto, and the episode in which a boy was forced to take off his Benfica shirt at the game against Famalicão. .
Source: TSF
