ROMA – If Serie C is furious, Serie A is rather satisfied. But not enough to vote for the reform of the FIGC Statute proposed by Gravina. The professional leagues of Italian football received the reform plan on Thursday in view of the extraordinary assembly of 4 November, the one in which football will redistribute the political and electoral weights.
The new electoral weights in the FIGC
The document reforming the Statute that the FIGC produced provides for a rebalancing of the weights of representation in the electoral council and therefore in the elective ones. The chessboard will be rebuilt like this:
Serie A will go from 12% to 18% and from 3 to 4 federal councilors. Serie B will go from 5% to 6% and from 1 to 2 federal councilors. The Lega Pro (Serie C) from 17% to 12% and from 3 to 2 councilors. The professional leagues thus went from 34 to 36%. The difference is subtracted from the arbitrators, who lose their 2% and also their representative in the Federal Council. The National Amateur League would remain unchanged (34% and 6 councilors) and obviously the technical components (players and coaches) protected by the Melandri law.
Serie A is divided
The president of the Lega Serie A Lorenzo Casini he publicly took a very clear position: “We did not vote for the FIGC proposal. Serie A believes that professionalism should be represented at 50 percent, with Serie A close to 30 percent.” In reality, many Serie A teams would be satisfied with having 5 federal councilors and an electoral weight compatible with that figure (around 20%). In short, positions distant from those represented by President Casini. But close to those of Lotitoopenly rooting for a stalemate.
Lotito’s failed blitz
The president of Lazio, supported by Of Lawrence (Naples) and Setti (Verona) asked to vote for the green light to challenge the regulations of the meeting of 4 November if a meeting point was not found on Monday. The reason for the appeal would be the fact that the FIGC did not intervene to balance the weights within the Federal Council before the assembly. For Lotito it would be a political move: to secure a card that could threaten a stalemate (and consequently the FIGC’s administration). But this time the gamble didn’t work, because fearing a defeat, the president of Lega Casini refused to put Lotito’s proposal to the vote. He knew that the proposal didn’t have the votes and supporting it would have made him suffer a defeat: to be avoided, given that the teams will soon have to decide on his re-election.
What Serie A achieved
The reason why the proposal to challenge the meeting was not supported? Serie A obtained much of what it asked for in this amendment to the Statute. That is, the right to agree on the federal regulations that will concern it: the FIGC will have to have the approval of the teams to modify the rules for registration and admission to Serie A, the rules on player registration, the regulatory principles that overcome those provided by UEFA and FIFA. The problem concerns cases in which an agreement cannot be reached between the FIGC and Lega Serie A: according to the Football Federation’s reform proposal, in those circumstances the CONI Board should decide. But there is still resistance on this issue: the Serie A clubs are against it, because the CONI council is not a third body, considering that the president of the FIGC is also part of it.
Serie C is furious
However, the Football Federation is willing to find a shared solution on Monday, in the federal council to discuss the new Statute again. There, more than Serie A, the Lega Pro will be the one to show its teeth. The Serie C clubs are in fact furious, they don’t want to give up one of their directors to Serie B. A strong protest from the clubs when the news reached them and expressed openly to the President Marani. If things remain like this, Lotito will have an ally to try to insist on the stalemate.
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