Italian football's new policy of ordering partial stadium closures to punish anti-Naples chanting has backfired and needs to be reconsidered, Serie A president Maurizio Beretta said in an interview on Wednesday. The sanctions have been implemented as part of new guidelines which were originally intended to crack down on racial discrimination. "The problem is not the rule, which is something we have received from UEFA, but the way it is implemented which is very limited," Beretta told Gazzetta dello Sport.
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