03 October 2016 San Dionigi the Areopagite Comments | Letters to the editor | Church | Life | Family | Headings | Dossier | World | Popotus Who we are | Subscriptions | Contacts Chronicle | Politics | Culture | Economy | Shows | Sport | Science & Technology | Video | Photo BOLOGNA | MILAN | ROME Avvenire Home Page > Sport > We'll give you the slow motion Sport Leather stories We'll give you the slow motion Massimiliano Castellani September 30, 2016 Facebook twitter google + mail font print (Photo Ansa web) TOMORROW GOES TO THE “VAR” ON THE FIELDS OF A From tomorrow with the two advances of the seventh matchday of Serie A, Pescara-Chievo and Udinese-Lazio, in Serie A the experimentation of the “Var”, the Video Assistant Referees, much more simply, the Moviola on the field. Green light to technology from the sidelines. Italy had been chosen last April by the Alphabet, the International Board, the parent company of any changes to the football rules, after it had formalized its willingness to host the slow motion experimentation process on the pitch. As expected by FIFA, the first year of testing will be in a certain sense "armored", offline to be clear: the primary objective will in fact be to calibrate the mechanism from a technical point of view. The second year, on the other hand, will be dedicated to running in a small number of matches: the referee on duty can ask for help from the TV images, The moviola always enters the field in October. It was October 22, 1967, in fact, when a "puff of plaster" on the San Siro goal line set in motion that "machine" that for half a century has been animating the discussions of the national sports bar. “Send Heron forward… No, go back. Freeze the image. Happy. Is that ball in or out of the goal? ... Out. Okay, it's out! ». This was the Beckettian dialogue between the two founding fathers of moviola on TV during the sporting Sunday (Rai 1), Carlo Sassi and Heron Vitaletti. The offending “ghost goal” was that of Gianni Rivera in the 1967 derby, Inter-Milan 1-1. "The white cloud was proof that that goal was not to be given, but the referee D'Agostini had trusted his linesman and validated", remembers Carlo Sassi, born in 1929, who even turns 87 on purpose, the 1st. October: the day of the debut of the experimental "Var" ( Video assistant referees) - aka the slow motion on the pitch - in Serie A. "If used wisely, the slow motion can be a valid support - explains Sassi -, but pay attention to a fundamental aspect: the referee must remain the central figure, the man also in sport it comes before the car ». Difficult to pass the concept on to those who have now made football a mainly television show, therefore destined to become more and more technological. "In fact, the dream of a former Milan manager has come true, who told me about thirty years ago:" Sassi, we have electronic scoreboards at San Siro, so let's take advantage of them, let's show the slow motion episodes during the game". I replied that he was crazy and that in case of a contested goal during a derby we would have caused a civil war ... This slow motion on the pitch will be useful as in the beginning to demonstrate the "goal-no goal", but let's remember that in football the variables are many. For example, a contested goal can be the result of a foul action started in the middle of the field, and then in that case what we do, do we suspend the game every five minutes? ». Legitimate doubt of the pioneer, with his brother Heron Vitaletti (1930), of that "machine" which at the beginning was viewed with suspicion, as much as the current slow motion in the field. «In Rai the engineers did not agree because of the unclear images. We worked on film with at least two technical steps after being sent from the fields to the Rai headquarters in Milan. The referees were with us, Concepts Lo Bello was our first fan, when in a Milan-Juve he did not concede the penalty to Bigon for Juventus' foul Morini came to Domenica Sportivaand after the slowdown he admitted: “Morini was smarter than me”. The journalists of the printed media, starting with Gianni Brera, loved us less: they ran the risk that their piece published in the Monday edition could be denied on Sunday evening by slow motion - continues Sassi -: if they had written about a valid goal and instead he had been marked offside, or a penalty awarded to a "diver" of the time (like Chiarugi, but there were many others who usually misled the referee and the press box). Sometimes we too were displaced, after all on the fields there were at most a couple of cameras, not twenty-thirty now, which follows the player right into the shower ». At the beginning of the 70s, the third man, “The Voice” by Cormons, was added to the Sassi-Vitaletti tandem: Bruno Pizzul, born in 1938. «The novelty of slow motion on the pitch I take it sub judice. It can be providential for the actions that take place in the penalty area, but I am puzzled as to its function of determining whether it is offside or not. The risk is that with the presence of the technological means the line assistant feels authorized to never raise the flag for fear of making a mistake. The abuse of the vehicle must be calculated. I believe that slow motion can be used two or three times per game, but if five or six cases discussed within ninety minutes are revealed, then it becomes a cinema. Which then is what someone is asking, the cinema: the slow motion employee who moves from the field to a studio inside the stadium where you work as the director of the television shootings. After all, the desertification of our stadiums confirms that the atavistically lazy Italian prefers to watch the match directly from his seat, and football is reduced to a mere television show ». Sassi, Vitaletti and Pizzul are the latest followers of live television journalism, commentators accustomed to sniffing the grass of the field from their station and then running to Corso Sempione to assemble the images to give to those Italians of the past who on Sunday they left their wife alone "to go and see the football match." "Vitaletti scored more goals than Milan - smiles Sassi - When we followed the match at San Siro from the stands I had to avoid my knees under the table because Heron kicked in synchrony with Rivera and his teammates' shots on goal". The brave Heron remained with the heroic deeds of the "Abatino" or at most those sad afternoons and scighera (of fog) in which "this Rivera no longer marks me", as Enzo Jannacci sang disconsolately in Vincenzina and the factory . «Slow motion as a TV test can have an educational function and is an antidote to simulators, but from here to taking it as a means to make football an exact science I find it ridiculous. The fascination of football lies precisely in the error, the technical one of the player and sometimes also in the poor referee's mistake in good faith ", says Vitaletti. Scientific football is hostage to the cameras and the Network, the one inflated by social networks. A football that has lost its narrators, its masks and those characters who had transposed the Italian comedy into a stadium. “Someone then passed easily from comedy to tragedy. I also received death threats from Inter fans who thought I was from Milan and vice versa - says Sassi - just for saying what I thought of a foul seen in slow motion. I didn't have a favorite team ... or rather no, out of friendship with an extraordinary man like the president Domenico Luzzara, I secretly started rooting for his Cremonese. Yet at the first home match in Serie A for Cremonese, when they won with Torino 2-1, I went to slow motion and said quietly: I'm sorry for Toro, because the penalty kick for Cremonese wasn't there ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». out of friendship with an extraordinary man like the president Domenico Luzzara, I secretly started cheering on his Cremonese. Yet at the first home match in Serie A for Cremonese, when they won with Torino 2-1, I went to slow motion and said quietly: I'm sorry for Toro, because the penalty kick for Cremonese wasn't there ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». out of friendship with an extraordinary man like the president Domenico Luzzara, I secretly started cheering on his Cremonese. Yet at the first home match in Serie A for Cremonese, when they won with Torino 2-1, I went to slow motion and said quietly: I'm sorry for Toro, because the penalty kick for Cremonese wasn't there ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». Yet at the first home match in Serie A for Cremonese, when they won with Torino 2-1, I went to slow motion and said quietly: I'm sorry for Toro, because the penalty kick for Cremonese wasn't there ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». Yet at the first home match in Serie A for Cremonese, when they won with Torino 2-1, I went to slow motion and said quietly: I'm sorry for Toro, because the penalty kick for Cremonese wasn't there ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». because there was no penalty for Cremonese ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». because there was no penalty for Cremonese ». Pizzul used the same frankness for a penalty awarded to Juve against Cesena. «Cera doesn't touch Bettega, but she lets herself fall. The next day, very angry Boniperti phoned me and for three months the Juventus players avoided Rai cameras in protest. Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. Once upon a time football was like this ... ». Press silence until Juve won the Scudetto and I received an invitation for the celebration dinner in Turin. 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