Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis slams the Lega Serie A, and calls on Maurizio Beretta to resign.
The Supercoppa Italiana was played between Lazio and Juventus in Shanghai over the weekend, but attracted criticism over the pitch and television coverage.
Napoli won the trophy in Doha last year, and the Partenopei patron reveals he refused to play the Bianconeri in the Far East.
“It’s embarrassing what happened,” De Laurentiis told Radio Kiss Kiss Napoli.
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis slams the Lega Serie A, and calls on Maurizio Beretta to resign.
The Supercoppa Italiana was played between Lazio and Juventus in Shanghai over the weekend, but attracted criticism over the pitch and television coverage.
Napoli won the trophy in Doha last year, and the Partenopei patron reveals he refused to play the Bianconeri in the Far East.
“It’s embarrassing what happened,” De Laurentiis told Radio Kiss Kiss Napoli.
“[Last year] I refused to go to China, they wanted to play in Italy, then I suggested a home and away leg. It was then decided that we’d go to Qatar, which is on another organisational level compared to China.
“The Chinese people are wonderful, but they need time to grow. The Lega Serie A is one of the most disorganised things I’ve ever seen.
“The President [Maurizio Beretta] can’t lead, he’s on [Lazio President Claudio] Lotito’s leash. I’ve always wondered – why do Lega officials have to take some of the money from the Supercoppa?
“When I went to Beijing, I saw that they lacked organisation. Why didn’t the Lega check on the organisation in Shanghai two months ago?
“They acted too late, especially on the issue of the pitch.
“In Portugal [where Napoli drew a friendly with Porto], we couldn’t watch the Supercoppa because the television rights weren’t sold in that country, which is absurd.
“I was forced to hack into a RAI feed, that’s absurd, what I did was illegal, it shouldn’t happen because this is a very feasible thing, it’s very simple, because the Lega does not protect its product.
“Beretta must resign, and Lotito should no longer have more of a say [than others], there are 20 teams in the Lega Serie A!
“They invented a voting system where the Lazio owner controls everything, [prime minister Matteo] Renzi should be vigilant on this too.”