{"id":447,"date":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/italy-serie-a-asks-gov-to-lift-gambling-ad-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","slug":"italy-serie-a-asks-gov-to-lift-gambling-ad-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/index.php\/italy-serie-a-asks-gov-to-lift-gambling-ad-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY: SERIE A ASKS GOV TO LIFT GAMBLING AD RESTRICTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">Football league asks government to remove ad and sponsorship bans to help generate revenues during the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">Italy.-\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #1d2f5f;\">Serie A<\/span><\/span><\/em>, Italy\u2019s premier football league, has asked the government to relax its gambling advertising rules to help the sport recover from the COVID-19 crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">According to\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Calvinayre<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0Serie A has asked for the prohibition on gambling advertising and sponsorships to be lifted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">The sponsorship ban alone, which took effect last summer, is projected to cost Serie A teams around \u20ac100m in lost revenue on an annual basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">But with the Coronavirus crisis leading to matches being cancelled, the league and its teams are set to be hit even hard due lost revenues from ticket sales and concessions in addition to TV fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">GaLand-based gambling operators have been offered some financial assistance from Head of State Sergio Mattarella, after he signed the \u2018Curia Italia\u2019 decree, an economic relief package to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #1d2f5f; letter-spacing: .25pt;\">Today, Italy has passed China in terms of Coronavirus related-deaths with a total of 3400 in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"author__bio\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p class=\"comment-form-comment\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"comment\">Comment<\/label><br \/>\n<textarea aria-required=\"true\" cols=\"45\" id=\"comment\" name=\"comment\" placeholder=\"Message\" rows=\"8\"><\/textarea><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-author\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"author\">Name<\/label><input aria-required=\"true\" id=\"author\" name=\"author\" placeholder=\"Name...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-email\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"name\">Email<\/label><input aria-required=\"true\" id=\"email\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-url\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"url\">Url<\/label><input id=\"url\" name=\"url\" placeholder=\"Website...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-cookies-consent\"><input id=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\" name=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"yes\"\/> <label for=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\">Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.<\/label><\/p>\n<p class=\"form-submit\"><input class=\"submit\" id=\"comment-submit\" name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\"\/> <input id=\"comment_post_ID\" name=\"comment_post_ID\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"15208\"\/> <input id=\"comment_parent\" name=\"comment_parent\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football league asks government to remove ad and sponsorship bans to help generate revenues during the Coronavirus outbreak. 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