Inter President Steven Zhang has argued that he will “continue to insist” that “safety comes first” and tells the Lega to “not play around with the calendar”.
After reports about the Federal Prosecutor’s Office opening an investigation on the Nerazzurri patron’s attack on Lega President Paolo Dal Pino, he has decided to speak out in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I wanted to make my voice heard,” Zhang told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “For me it really is important, especially in this moment, that the people who decide will put the health and safety ahead of everything.
“Health is the most important thing to consider, before any other interest. You can’t fiddle with the calendar and risk people to crowd in a stadium, endangering safety and health.
“All this is not a game and it’s not a joke. It’s not acceptable that you take even the slightest risk when it comes to health and for this I feel, as President of a football club and part of the sport industry, I have a mission and the responsibility of telling people the truth and making sure the correct message is passed.
“To let the fans know, whether they support Inter, Juventus, Milan or any other team in Italy or around the world, that health and safety comes first and that we must take all the precautions and be very careful.
He continues to argue against the Lega for tampering with the calendar and has claimed it gives the wrong signal.
“I think someone doesn’t know or someone else is not doing it,” he said. “I don’t accept that you play around with the calendar of competitions, changing dates at the end or making a game seem more important than safety.
“Sometimes you have to oppose the desire of the masses to follow an event if it’s not safe. We should always put public safety first and then everything else is secondary, it comes later.
“There is no match, game, tournament regularity that comes before health. I will continue to insist and underline these issues both in public and on social media.
“Contagions are growing rapidly. We must not panic, but have great responsibility and attention: safety and health first of all.”
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