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Yesterday, on the eve of the press conference of the Alps Hockey League, the 'HC VALPELLICE sent to the president of the Federation, Gios, an open letter expressing his perplexity & agrave; to take the lead and puts on the table its demands to the Federation.
Monday 30 May 2016 12 minutes reading time
Also in the statement posted on the website of the company & agrave; it is read:
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Dear President, in relation to the latest answers to our questions, places to Sector Head Hockey Thomas Teofoli, we hereby communicate to our disappointment and our perplexity & agrave; about the new AHL project.
We feel strongly penalized by decisions taken by the Federation regarding the next season. First of all, we agree that the Federation does not give up on organizing the Italian League Serie A, with the assignment of the title of Champion d & rsquo; Italy, forcing cos & igrave; societies & agrave; the top flight to have to play a compulsory cross-border tournament to be able to compete all''assegnazione the league. Two seasons ago, the same Federation had in fact imposed on the teams of & rsquo; then A2, who had asked to participate in the Championship Austrian INL, to play simultaneously with Italian teams who had freely decided not to take part in this tournament. The latter to memorize options They had had the opportunity & agrave; to play for the Italian title of A2 series, contrary to what would happen to us if we could not participate in the AHL. Our company & agrave; It would in fact have the chance & agrave; to compete with the other teams of the top division of the championship series A, but this possibility & agrave; becomes subject to participation in the AHL, cos & igrave; as reported by Mr. Teofoli.
We learn also that if a top-flight team canceling their participation in the AHL Championship, potr & agrave; just sign up for the series Championship B but, in this case, would lose sports rights to return to Serie A, if it does not win the cadet championship. This condition, although dictated by the regulation, & egrave; It was to memorize options in the past he evaded several times and even today, the Federation has proposed the & rsquo; introduction of some Wild Card, to increase the number of teams in Serie A who wish to participate in the cross-border tournament without winning the Serie B. Then we would feel properly have this opportunity & agrave ;, Since & eacute; our eventual relegation to Serie B would not be dictated by our will & agrave; (Cos & igrave; com '' & egrave; however in the past for other companies & agrave; like Pontefract, l & rsquo; Alleghe or Milan), but from causes beyond our control.
We believe that a change cos & igrave; important, which entails enormous difficulties & agrave; logistics for companies & agrave; Northwest, to be considered sustainable, should have as its ultimate goal in raising the competitive level, apparently not achievable with teams of a second alloy. Should involve a clear number of EU players, combined with some foreign, condition sine qua non for the growth of local young people from all hoped.
We also believe that a proposal of this magnitude should have been planned and defined well in advance, giving the club a chance & agrave; to promote the tournament with the sponsors, the media and the public. There we find to May 28, without knowing the details of the format, the rules for the composition of the roster, tuition costs and the teams that will participate.
In this state of great uncertainty, proven by the latest responses, our company & agrave; He feels strongly discriminated against and penalized, both sportingly and economically, by federal choices. Gi & agrave; in the past, unfortunately, we had to accept reluctantly parting with the Bolzano Italian Championship, a choice that has generated all the companies & agrave; remaining heavy economic damage; at this time, we in the Valpellice, only the northwest team, we even find ourselves without the Italian Championship and forced to participate in a tournament where you do not yet have definite information and final.
& Nbsp; We also believe that the title of Champion d & rsquo; Italy is to be won by Italian teams playing in the national territory, in an Italian Championship, with clear and defined regulations and not through formulas uncertain and unforeseeable costs. The same goes for the trophy of the Italian Cup, for the federal choice, it would be the prerogative of the only teams in Serie B. This trophy should be in our opinion attended by all the Italian teams, cos & igrave; as is the case in France, which sees the participation of over 60 teams. Try to imagine what would happen if in football could not participate in such event the teams in Serie A. Juventus and Milan would not have played the & rsquo; last final of the Italian Cup, played a few days ago at the Olympic Stadium in Rome and difficult stages they could count much of the public, sponsors and visibility & agrave; media.
Our movement, due to questionable choices and the progressive lowering of the technical level of the championship, due to the reduction in the number of foreigners, has inevitably blamed heavy reductions of the public, sponsors and visibility & agrave; in stadiums, contrary to what is happening in our neighboring states to France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. These choices have generated severe economic contractions and put in great crisis many companies & agrave ;, some of which have had to cos & igrave; give up the top division or even the formation of a senior team. Reducing the number of teams has as inexorable consequence the decrease of young athletes who continue their career hockeistica to get one day to play in Serie A. These choices have generated today's scenario, which sees the end of the Italian league, the geo location the reduced hockeistico movement Veneto and all & rsquo; Alto Adige, resulting in necessity & agrave; to compromise with other federations to organize a championship. We therefore ask that the Federation takes into account our demands, which are summarized in these few points: 1. Possibility & agrave; to participate in the Italian League Serie A (having the rights), without having to take part in the Tournament AHL; 2. Possibility & agrave; to participate in the Italian Cup, of which we are the current holders; 3. Receive very quickly all official information about the league format, number of games, game days, foreign teams participating and precise rules for the composition of the roster, to decide which sporting event to participate with a senior team for the season 2016 -2017; 4. In the event that our company & agrave ;, based on the answers to the previous point, would choose not to participate in the AHL for the 2016-2017 season, we guarantee not to lose the sports rights acquired to date in order to take part, in a pi & ugrave future; Of course, the Italian league top flight; Waiting for one of his kind reply, we take the & rsquo; opportunity to extend our pi & ugrave; Yours sincerely. HC VALPELLICE
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