The FIGC, the Italian Football Association, recently installed a new president, Giovanni Malago, but due to a clerical error, a new election is coming up and when he is believed to be easily confirmed, veteran executive Adriano Galliani has thrown his hat into the ring. La Gazzetta dello Sport gives information.
The incumbent officially lost his position following the appeal due to a bureaucratic error, but the Italian Olympic Committee, the body he previously chaired and oversees these matters, quickly appointed him commissioner until the next vote on December 14.c.
Malago beat Giancarlo Abete last time out, but Galliani decided to enter the fight. He has officially won the support of coaches and players, who make up 30 percent of voters. Series A collapsed. The other three divisions, B, C and amateurs, will be decisive as they have a combined 52 percent.
It hasn’t been smooth sailing for the FIGC in recent months. Many clubs supported Paolo Maldini’s vision Azzurri. Instead, he resigned with Leonardo after the president deemed the hiring of Andrea Pirlo unsuitable due to his links to a Russian betting company and trampled on the authority to bring back Roberto Mancini, pairing him with Claudio Ranieri in the managerial role.
Our attitude to FIGC, Malagò and Galliani
It’s quite a funny thing, because the former should have given up his role over something small, and at least in part because of a dispute with his successor in CONI, but still being quite attractive in other sports, he remained in charge. The Maldini affair was certainly not a good look. Both are experienced politicians, but the latter has more football experience.
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