Yet another summer of poisons and penalties in Serie C, where once again the football played risks being relegated to the background, buried under a mountain of penalty points, sentences and appeals.
A script that Italian football knows all too well and which once again recurs punctually.
Serie C Penalty Chaos
La Triestina, in Group A, will start with -9 points. A very hard blow for an ambitious team and today it finds itself entangled in a Kafkaesque situation. Registration in the balance and a very heavy burden to carry around from the first day. But if in Trieste they cry, in Lucca they don't laugh: Lucchese will in fact have to pay an incredible -14, a blow that effectively condemns the team to a championship of extreme suffering, if not to a relegation almost announced before it even started. Things aren't going much better for Trapani, newly promoted and immediately forced to deal with a -8 that risks making the next championship bitter too, after the disappointment of last championship with the failure to reach the play offs.
Next championship already conditioned
But what is the point of a championship where you start with handicaps of this magnitude?
Separate chapter for the Foggia, in Group C, still pending the next hearing on June 19. An affair that is keeping an entire fan base in suspense and that adds further uncertainty to a club that risks not registering.
The problem, however, is broader: how is it possible that every summer Italian football, especially Serie C, turns into an open-air sports court, with rankings overturned at the table? What credibility does a championship have where some teams start out already condemned to chase for corporate faults? It is yet another sign of a system that is leaking from all sides and that, instead of protecting sporting value, continues to let itself be overwhelmed by opaque management and late decisions. And those who pay, as always, are the fans.
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