Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 20:34 / Updated Tuesday, August 19, 2025 21:11
The Association of Italian coaches (AIAC) is pressuring the Italian Football Federation (Figc), requesting “the temporary suspension of Israel from international competitions”. By a letter, Aiac asks Figc to mobilize and notify UEFA and FIFA to take measures against the national team that Squadra Azzurra will meet at Debrecen over three weeks, in the first group of preliminaries for CM 2026.
The Italian football coaches ask in a letter to President Figc, Gabriele Grărina, to mobilize for Gaza and to send UEFA and FIFA to temporarily suspend Israel from international competitions.
The Aiac president, Gabriele Grărina, is the head of the revolt against the aggression of the Israeli army in the Gaza strip / Photo: IMAGO
The notification reaches the federation with a short time the double of the double confrontation of Gennaro Gattuso's national one in the qualifications at the World Cup year. ANSA agency, which announced His mobilization initiative in favor of the Palestinian people, speaks of “a not only symbolic action, but a necessary choice, which responds to a moral imperative, shared by the entire management group” of the Association led by Renzo Ulivieri.
Aiac: “We can't only think about football, turning our head elsewhere. We don't think this is the right message”
“The values of humanity, which support the values of sport, require us to combat the actions of oppression with terrible consequences,” explained Ulivieri. “We cannot only think of football, turning our head elsewhere. We think it is not correct,” the Vice -President Camolese gave him justice.
“Too many innocent dead! Among them, and many athletes. An additional reason to look for combating actions at international level and in our sector,” added Vice President Vossi. “The world is in flames. Many peoples suffer, like the Palestinian one. Indifference is not admissible.”concluded Vice President Perondi.
“We need concrete actions as the tragedy in Gaza”
Here are passages from the text of the letter AIAC: “A football match, preceded by the national hymns, can only be considered a football match? What is happening in the Gaza strip, with serious repercussions in the Westordan and Lebanon, can simply be considered one of the 56 active conflicts in the world, which should benefit from the same attention and the same reaction?
The terrorist massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, with over a thousand innocent Israeli victims and taking 250 hostages, can justify the rail genocidal reprisals of Israel, who caused tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, until they were announced?
All these are questions that the Italian Association of Football Coaches and put and ask everyone now, including in the perspective of the following matches that will oppose the Italian national, on September 8 and on October 15, to the Israeli …
Images to the disaster in Gaza, bombed non-stop by Israeli Aviation / Photo: IMAGO
Concrete actions are needed as the tragedy in progress. It is no longer the time for moral persuasions to the Netanyahu government, which obviously closed the ear to the calls addressed from several parts, including large -scale street demonstrations and important protests of their own people.
This confirms that objective criticisms and protests do not make the eye of Hamas terrorists and, above all, do not hide unresolved anti -Semitic impulses. We strongly assert it: in front of the Holocaust, we are all Jews forever and no one wants to delete the memory book sign.
But history has not stopped at that horror and interrogates us today, without exception. Let us not forget that the biblical expression “eyes for the eyes” remains a formula entrusted by God to Moses, so that the reaction to a evil suffered is not disproportionate. This is true for each individual and, more so, for a democratic state ”.
