Turin, 22 December. (LaPresse) – "Despite the fact that the Serie A Football League had followed the complex authorisation process, which lasted several months, correctly and punctually, through the approval of the participating clubs, the Serie A Football League Assembly, the FIGC Federal Council, the UEFA Executive Committee and the Australian Federation, and had even accepted the highly questionable sporting conditions imposed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in the face of an escalation of further unacceptable demands made in the last few hours by the AFC to the Australian Football Federation and, consequently, to the Government of Western Australia and the Serie A Football League, it has become impossible to play the Milan-Como match in Perth on 8 February." This was stated by the president of the Serie A Football League, Ezio Simonelli, in a note. ‘While expressing regret at the outcome of this project, we remain firmly convinced that this conclusion is a missed opportunity in the growth of Italian football at an international level, which also deprives the many Serie A fans abroad of the dream of watching their favourite team play live,’ he added.
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