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Not everyone is Hugo, Zamparini is not one of them. There are many extreme fan organizations in Palermo, and many of them are also connected with the Palermo club, doing illegal things such as scalping. On the surface, laws and regulations prohibit clubs from selling tickets to extreme fan organizations, but many clubs still turn a blind eye under pressure.

This is true for teams in the north and teams in the south!

There was an incident in Rome. During the game, there was a rumor that a Roma fan died on the match day. Roma’s extreme fans immediately incited fans to make trouble in the stadium and demanded that Roma stop the game. Totti went to say it but it was useless. In the end, the game was interrupted for a long time until the news that the Roma fan died was confirmed to be false news.

Totti said to Spalletti at the time: “They don’t let us play. If we continue to play, they will kill us!”

This incident fully demonstrates the power of the extreme fans organization. Hugo actively promoted the real-name ticket system more than a year ago. This is very useful for combating Trapani’s extreme fans, but it is not very useful for other teams, because those extreme fans have fixed stands, no one dares to sit in their seats at will, and these extreme fans do not buy tickets themselves, but through organizations!

If you don’t sell tickets to them, you will wait for empty stands. Big clubs don’t want to break up with extreme fans. Generally, they have the most fan groups. Offending too many means economic losses.

Small clubs dare not be enemies with extreme fans. Hugo’s friend Franza had to succumb to the extreme fans organization because they are no different from the mafia.

In the 22nd round of the league, the entire Sicily seemed to be in a state of tension. In order to avoid accidents in the weekend game, Catania applied to the professional league and the Football Association for an early home game against Palermo.

Although Catania was very careful, it still had a big problem on the day of the game. Because of the controversial penalty of the referee, Palermo took the lead. Catania fans began to make noise in the stadium and attacked Palermo fans through the barbed wire.

They threw fireworks into the stadium and burned things in the stands, making the scene full of smoke, like a war. The game was forced to be interrupted. The riot police arrested dozens of fans in the stands to quell the dispute and allow the game to proceed smoothly.

In the end, Palermo won the game, but the story did not end. During the stadium riot, a policeman was hit in the face by a paper bomb made by Catania extreme fans while performing his duties. He was then trampled by fans in the riot. After the incident subsided, he was sent to the hospital but could not be rescued and eventually died.

Fan riots are not uncommon, and some fans have died as a result, but that situation is far less shocking than a policeman, because the police represent the national power agency. The special nature of Sicily means that killing a policeman here will definitely be traced to the end, and the impact will only be greater.

The president of the Football Association announced the indefinite postponement of the league at the first time. This result was not what the clubs wanted. After all, Sicily is Sicily. What does it have to do with us? ! But the clubs had to accept such an arrangement. Such a suspension requirement can be guessed with one’s toes that it was the government’s intention. This is a politically correct issue.

Palermo President and Professional League President Zamparini condemned such a violent conflict at the first time. He is an outsider and was originally afraid of Palermo’s extreme fans. This time the incident became a big deal, and Zamparini immediately took the opportunity to fire.

“This is the darkest day for Italian football. If this environment is not improved, the future of Italian football is bleak!”

Hugo is in Rome, not in Sicily. He learned about the incident through Catania President Purvirenti. After the incident, Purvirenti first thought of looking for Hugo. His influence in politics and business is very limited, and he is afraid that this big board will hit his buttocks.

The only person he could find was Hugo. Hugo had a certain influence in the political, business and football circles. Former Prime Minister Berlusconi had a good relationship with him, and the current Prime Minister Prodi also had a good relationship with Hugo. Since Prodi came to power, he had met Hugo three times, at least they were familiar with each other. Purvirenti hoped that Hugo could speak in front of the government because a policeman died in this incident, which would inevitably rise to the political level and set off a huge storm.

“I owe you a favor! Gigi, you have to help me anyway!” Purvirenti asked Hugo.

This matter could be a big or small matter for Catania Club. The big one was that his position as chairman would end. If the investigation went on, the intricate relationship between the club and the extreme fan organization would be uprooted, and Purvirenti’s chairmanship would probably end.

But it could be a small matter. This matter happened in the stadium. Every time there was such a derby, the main force of security was the police. The security personnel of Catania Club were simply powerless, so it might be reasonable that the responsibility could not be completely attributed to Catania Club.

That’s what Purvirenti thought anyway, and he hoped Hugo could help.

“Haha!” Hugo sneered, “Antonio, you’re too naive. Now a policeman has died. If nothing unexpected happens, this incident will soon become the focus of the football world, and it’s also a political event. Can you guarantee that those extreme fans are just for controversial penalties?! Don’t they have political demands?!”

Hugo didn’t believe it. As far as he knew, nine out of ten extreme fan organizations were politically biased, either left or right, and it wouldn’t be that simple. So the darkness of Italian football also came from this, and political forces infiltrated the football world.

“Who can tell clearly now?!” Purvirenti said.

“They are not even afraid of the police, and you still can’t tell clearly?! Not many people have the courage to attack the police!” Hugo just heard Purvirenti’s description clearly. Purvirenti said that those angry fans directly attacked the police, and not only one policeman died, but also several policemen were injured. Hugo probably felt that this might really be related to politics, and this group of fans might take the opportunity to cause trouble.

“What should I do?!” Purvirenti said stupidly. This guy was originally a capable businessman, doing a thriving shipping business, but now he is “scared to death” when encountering such a thing. He is really timid.

“Oh, what are you afraid of? The worst outcome of this is that you give up Catania. Can you be sent to prison?!” Hugo comforted.

Indeed, no matter how big or small the situation will be, the worst case for Purvirenti is that he will be ordered to quit the football circle, and the probability of such a situation is too small, unless Purvirenti is really doing something that seriously violates laws and regulations.

“When something like this happens, our professional league must make some statements! Antonio, do you hate those bastards of extreme fans?!” Hugo thought of something in his head.

“Do you think I want to mess with those bastards?! They are all villains, controlling the stands, threatening me that if I don’t cooperate with them, they will turn the stadium into an empty stand and will bring down the club!” Purvirenti gritted his teeth and said, his words expressed the helplessness of many teams. Big clubs are not easy to control, and small clubs are even harder to control. Catania’s extreme fan organization is like the emperor of the club.

But many bosses, although they hated it, tolerated it. Why? Because in the final analysis, cooperation achieved a win-win situation. Club bosses are all related to other people and understand cooperation best. If Purvirenti had not been involved in this incident, he might have felt that cooperating with extreme fan organizations was no big deal. Catania club did not lose any money anyway. The ones who really suffered were just the grassroots fans. Most of the money of the extreme fan organizations was taken from the grassroots fans.