Giovanni Malagò moved a step nearer to changing into the brand new FIGC President after each the Coaches’ Affiliation and Gamers’ Affiliation backed his candidacy.
Following Gabriele Gravina’s resignation, there can be an election on June 22 to resolve who takes over as the brand new chief of the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC).
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, at present each the Italian Gamers’ Affiliation (AIC) and Italian Affiliation of Coaches (AIAC) gave their assist to the identical candidate.
Malagò nearer to FIGC position
ROME, ITALY – DECEMBER 15: CONI President Giovanni Malago’ attends the Italian Olympic Commitee ‘Collari d’Oro’ Awards ceremony on December 15, 2015 in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photos)
“The gamers and coaches have expressed a shared imaginative and prescient, figuring out Giovanni Malagò because the individual able to responding to the numerous challenges of the current and above all the long run,”
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“Throughout conferences over the previous few weeks, vital convergences emerged on the precept programme factors like Membership Italia, sustainability and reforms, ladies’s soccer, a imaginative and prescient of sport that constructing on the preliminary impulse offered by the Lega Serie A provides ensures on this delicate and vital season on the trail we must always take.”
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY – MARCH 05: Giovanni Malago, President of the Organising Committee for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games, appears on throughout the Paralympic Video games Opening Press Convention forward of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Video games at on March 05, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (Picture by Mattia Ozbot/Getty Photos)
It appears to be a head-to-head now between Malagò and Giancarlo Abete, however the former is now at round 47 per cent of the voting bloc.
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The FIGC elections are cut up so Serie A has 18 per cent of the vote, Serie B 6 per cent, Lega Professional 12 per cent, the newbie league LND 34 per cent, Gamers Affiliation 20 per cent and Coaches Affiliation 10 per cent.
Malagò is the previous President of the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) and most lately ran the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Video games.