Daniele Orsato speaks, new referees of the Serie C referees. He will have to manage the novelty of the Football Video Support, which is not the VAR on call but could be the first step to get there
He stopped the role of the referee of the field on 1 June 2024 in Bergamo, complete with a final honor catwalk of the players of Atalanta and Fiorentina. He had collected applause and honors even around Europe, he always allergic to the limelight. Deca director decisive, almost physical in the interpretation of the role and task. Daniele Orsatofresh designator of the Can C with door on the future at the helm of the referees of the top flight.
Will happen, sooner or later. Impossible that Italian football does not fully exploit its experience in the wake of the work that Gianluca Rocchi is making, in turn called to reconstruct a group that has gradually lost all the points of reference and has had to start from scratch. As? The talents are there and Rocchi is developing them, as Orsato will do in the coming months in Serie C with the aim of bringing someone (“but I said that Serie A is not for everyone and they have to understand it”) on the upper floors.
Daniele Orsato, the sensations of the approach to the new career as a series C designer?
“The truth is that I would have paid my pocket if I could just imagine achieving these emotions, to achieve the goals we have set ourselves for this start of the championship. It is a fantastic feeling, fantastic emotions, wonderful guys. I could not expect more”.
Is that what he had in his head the day he stopped?
“The day I stopped had promised that the referee within me on the field would died at that moment and that I would transfer my experiences, my skills, my emotions to the youngest. Because football and sport is emotion and to my boys (the referees of the C series) I recommended, I recommend and always recommend the courage to decide without thinking about error and consequences”.
How do you talk to young referees in front of a monument? Is there a temptation to tell what has been done and how?
“No, absolutely. They don’t hear me say” I didn’t do this “or” I didn’t do this “, I bring to them teachings on what they have to try to put in place because the key is all here: if they are convinced that the things that are taught work will make a qualitative leap”.
What climate is there around the Serie C referees, the first row of that province that also tells many critical issues from the point of view of security?
“In terms of our association, they have a peaceful climate to be able to make their best and make decisions. I am convinced that the collaboration that will be installed this year with the companies, thanks to the introduction of the Football Video Support, will lead to greater collaboration between referees and coaches”.
Why?
“The coaches will be a sort of added men’s quarters, they will have the great opportunity to be able to make a call to analyze an episode that in their opinion has been judged wrongly by the referee”.
Football Video Support is the novelty of the year. It starts in Serie C and in the female division. Do we begin to say that it is not correct to imagine it as the VAR on call often evoked?
“No, it is not the VAR on call and it is a video support to the referee. We will control all the nets automatically, it will be the task of the fourth man who will have a screen with an operator positioned in the middle of the two benches on the sidelines. There should be an irregularity, if the infringement is factual, for example a player who assigns with one hand, the fourth man will tell the referee to cancel the network. As, for example, the existence of an alleged foul in the action that leads to the net, it will be up to the race director to position himself in front of the monitor and decide “.
And then there are the two calls available to benches
“The coaches have a badge they can deliver to the fourth man by activating the process of reviewing the screen. If they have been right, the call will be returned. Otherwise the field decision will be confirmed and the badge will be withdrawn”.
He expects to be the beginning of a cultural change in the relationship with the coaches and their staff
“I am convinced that this cultural gearbox has already been there in the past. I lived it before in person as a referee on the field and always recommended at the end of the game to all the coaches to be patient with the younger referees. Often the technicians take it with their boys at the beginning of the career, but underneath they know they have to make them experience. Also applies to the referees. If we have a little patience and we will be able to make them mistake, Repeat the same errors more “.
Many times in recent times it has been said that we are at the year zero of the referees sector in Italy: is it so?
“No, absolutely. We may have had difficulties in generational changes, but I believe that they are not the referees to miss or make mistakes. We have many more responsibilities as managers. If we have not prepared referees in the past years, we probably have to do an examination of consciousness, because perhaps we have made something more wrong with us”.
Daniele Orsato is missing to be on the pitch?
“No, I never missed the field. The only thing I missed, I always said, on Thursday the call of Fabio, the secretary, who gave me the game. The designation is something that the boys expect and I expected with anxiety, the number that appeared on the phone. I don’t miss the rest, but not because, because I switched on immediately when I closed my career: I went from the ego to them. I did it immediately. “
