Soccer-Italy FA chief wants travel ban for Azzurri fans
MILAN, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Italy fans should be stopped from
supporting the world champions abroad after minor trouble during
their 0-0 draw in Bulgaria, the head of the Italian football
association said on Monday.
A group of Italy fans made fascist salutes and threw bottles at
Bulgaria supporters before Saturday"s World Cup qualifying Group
Eight match in Sofia. Three supporters were also arrested for burning
a Bulgarian flag.
"We will not ask for any more tickets for Italy matches abroad,"
Giancarlo Abete told Radio Anch"io.
The hard line, which must be agreed with the government, follows
several years of crowd trouble within Italy which has led to heavy
restrictions on away travel for league matches.
"We are not talking about fans but people who want to misbehave and
damage the image of football and our country. The association and the
interior ministry have the first and last names of people who had
tickets."
Italy partly missed out on holding the Euro 2012 championship because
of their hooligan problem but Abete said not every fan was culpable.
"We need to see if some people got in without tickets. I"m sorry
because most of the people among the 144 (Italy fans) present in the
stadium had nothing to do with this disorder," he said.
Security is being stepped up for Wednesday"s home qualification game
with Montenegro in Lecce.
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