ROME (AP) — After five cases of racist chants in eight rounds of Serie A Cheap Liverpool Soccer Jerseys , the Italian soccer federation is considering employing advanced listening devices used in anti-terrorism operations to identify offending fans.Federation president Gabriele Gravina has detailed “a passive radar device that uses directional microphones to determine the source of the noise. It can immediately determine who is making a racist chant — or it can illustrate the trajectory of fireworks.”Gravina adds that the tool being considered requires two panels per stadium section, is not overly expensive and is made by an Italian company.He said the only obstacle is Italy’s privacy laws, “because (the device) can also listen to private conversations inside the stadium.”The federation is coordinating with the Interior Ministry with the aim of testing the tools during Italy’s European Championship qualifier against Armenia in Palermo, Sicily, next month.Offensive chants have been aimed this season at Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan), Franck Kessie (AC Milan), Dalbert Henrique (Fiorentina), Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) and Ronaldo Vieira (Sampdoria).Lukaku Cheap Manchester City Soccer Shirts , Kessie, Dalbert, and Vieira are all black. They were targeted with monkey chants. Pjanic, a Bosnia international who is white, was called a “Gypsy.”But the Italian league and federation have not consistently handed out penalties to the clubs whose fans were responsible or the offending fans themselves.“This device allows you to perfectly distinguish a single voice,” Gravina said. “We would like to use this tool so that people who want to ruin the dignity of Italian and international football know that they can easily be identified and therefore punished.“Our protocol is very strict but at times we can’t identify in detail those responsible,” Gravina added. “So we need to rely on technology.”Gravina first detailed the possible use of the devices in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica on Monday and added further detail in a news conference. Major League Soccer is lifting its ban on signs and banners featuring an anti-Nazi symbol for the remainder of the season and the playoffs.A handful of fans in Portland were prohibited from attending matches this season after challenging a ban on the Iron Front, a symbol with three arrows pointed downward and to the left that was first used by an anti-Nazi paramilitary group in the 1930s. The league had said the emblem violated a ban on political displays included in the MLS fan code of conduct adopted this season.MLS maintained the symbol is political because it has been appropriated by antifa Cheap Manchester United Soccer Jerseys , loosely organized militant groups of anti-fascists that sometimes engage in violence. Supporters’ groups maintain the Iron Front represents opposition to fascism and persecution — a human rights issue, not a political stance.Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders supporters’ groups, as well as the Independent Supporters’ Council, protested the ban, and some fans across the league continued to use the symbol on flags, banners and signs at games.Both sides met last Thursday in Las Vegas to find a resolution. An additional conference call was held Tuesday afternoon.MLS President and Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott said in a statement the league would also form a working group, including representatives from the league, its clubs Cheap Paris Saint-Germain Soccer Jerseys , the ISC and the supporters’ groups, to re-examine the code of conduct going forward.“This working group will include representatives from the league office and clubs and work collaboratively with leaders of club supporter groups and a cross-section of diversity and inclusion experts,” Abbott said.The supporters groups also issued a statement.“The Independent Supporters Council and supporter groups for the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders FC acknowledge the league’s willingness to discuss these complex issues, as well as the league’s affirmation of its long-time opposition to racism, fascism, white supremacy, white nationalism and homophobia,” the statement said. “We appreciate Major League Soccer’s willingness to engage Cheap Real Madrid Soccer Shirts , listen, and learn. We look forward to continuing the dialogue, moving away from direct action in the stands on this issue, and instead focusing our energy on making progress around the table.”The league’s fan code of conduct, implemented this season, prohibits “using (including on any sign or other visible representation) political, threatening, abusive www.thetopsoccer.com/tottenham-hotspur , insulting, offensive language and/or gestures, which includes racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist or otherwise inappropriate language or behavior.”Earlier this season, a fan waving a Trump 2020 flag was removed from Providence Park.
