Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
said Monday some 300 minor-league soccer referees had been
attacked this year alone.
"Just this year 300 referees in the minor leagues have been
beaten up. Do you realise this is madness'" he said at the
presentation of the Italian police calendar.
"There are 35,000 referees who officiate, free of charge, in
11,000 little fields on the outskirts of cities. What kind of
country is it that sends 300 boys to the hospital because they
allegedly refereed badly?"
Salvini was speaking after an attack in Rome on Sunday.
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