Rocchi: “For us, recovery time is a problem”. Guida: “Stop wasting time”

During the evening of the 25th Vannucci Memorialdirectly from Viola Park in Florence, there was space for a short sketch on refereeing, with a specific focus on the actual time and the recovery time, with the referee as the protagonists Mark Guide and the referee designator Gianluca Rocchi. Below are their statements.

Says Guide: “At the moment our options are to try to reduce time losses as much as possible, especially in dead actions and therefore speed up the resumption of the game. This is something we are trying to work on.”

Rocchi then echoes him: “We would solve a problem, for us the recovery time is a problem. There have been games of 44 effective minutes against others of 62. If it arrives, it would be an important structural change, with a timekeeper, but it is not up to us but to the IFAB. It is not just Serie A”.