On the evening of 2 April 2025 at San Siro the former referee was on the phone with one of his collaborators and cited the referees’ officer of the Nerazzurri club. Here’s what happened.
In the documents of the investigation into the world of refereeing there is an interception in which, with former referee Gianluca Rocchi on the phone, reference is made to an Inter member. It’s about Giorgio Schenone who is in charge of the referees in the Nerazzurri club.
It is April 2, 2025, the day on which, according to the reconstruction of the public prosecutor Maurizio Ascione, Rocchi would have spoken in the heart of San Siro with other refereeing representatives about the appointments of Inter’s subsequent matches and of the choice to “shield” the unwelcome Doveri, preventing him from being designated for the possible Italian Cup final and in the championship sprint matches against Napoli, and to send the more welcome Colombo onto the field.
The appointments of Doveri and Colombo with Inter
To reveal it is Republic. The dialogue would not be direct between the referee and Schenone, only evoked, but between Rocchi and one of his referee collaborators. According to prosecutor Ascione, this is the basis of the hypothesis of sports fraud in collaboration with other people which appears in the notice of investigation sent to the head of referees on 25 April.
It should be remembered that Duties he subsequently refereed not only the Inter-Milan Italian Cup semi-final second leg derby on 20 April, but also Parma-Inter in the championship on 5 April, three days after the match at San Siro, and who had been designated by Rocchi shortly before (1 March) for the Napoli-Inter Scudetto match and a few weeks earlier for Fiorentina-Inter: in all 4 appearances for the Nerazzurri plus the one in the Italian Cup. A normal rotation for any club.
ColumbusOn the other hand, considered by the prosecutor Ascione to be appreciated by Inter, he refereed Inzaghi’s team only twice in the championship. Less than average for a top whistle in the rankings and in the consideration of the designator. In any case, the revelation of the presence of the name of an Inter member provides a first answer to one of the so far unanswered questions of the investigation. It should be clarified that Schenone is not under investigation.
