“I’m working as if there wasn’t this type of impediment, because I feel it as a sense of duty” he explained Malagò at the end of the mandate. “I don’t know what will happen – he added -, I’m totally fatalistic. Let’s see if one day there will be a new president to be elected, but the important thing is to get there calmly. I said what I had to say. There are many people in the world of sports, not necessarily close to me, who are talking about it, then everyone makes their own assessments.” Malagò expects a decision in January, now in the meantime the hypothesis of A thousand extensionsthat is, one more year at the top of Coni until Milan-Cortina 2026 which he brought to Italy. If he were no longer able to run for Coni’s No. 1, for his fourth mandate, “I won’t support anyone – he assures – it wouldn’t be right. I would only do it if there was a candidate who exploits support from the world of politics and not those of sport”. For now there isn’t. On relationships with politicians he concluded: “They are excellent, then with some they are not, this is normal. I continue to have requests from politicians to do things for them, even from those who don’t love me”. In the past Matteo Renzi wanted to nominate him for mayor of Rome, then he had offers, including recent ones, from the centre-right as well as from the centre-left. He said no to everyone, he feels like a sportsman, politics, he assures, is not for him. Also because he feels betrayed by a certain policy. Tuesday 17 December Council and National Council of CONI: the date of the CONI elections (around 20 June) will be decided and until that date Malagò will remain in office, with many things still to be done. Perhaps there will be a single election day, but Pancalli could also give CONI some thought. The bitterness remains, of course, “I really want to see what happens…” Malagò whispers. But no poisons, it’s not the time around Christmas. On Saturday Luciano Rossi will be confirmed for his ninth term at the shooting gallery, in January it’s up to Sabatino Aracu with wheels. Coni, a public body, has the constraint of three mandates. “What do I think? Luciano and Sabatino are two friends, I don’t ask anyone for anything anymore, let’s see what happens…”. Whoever comes (maybe 3-4 candidates between men and women?) will not have an easy task at all, Malagò is a hard worker. This morning, before the toast, he met at length with Gravina and Casasco, two important presidents (also political).
What does he leave behind, he was asked? “It was a very beautiful and important year. I believe that the prestige of CONI has not diminished this year, better results than ever and accounts in order in a very delicate context. Organizational quality under everyone’s eyes, from the Olympic preparation to the Institute of Sports Medicine and Science, up to the high management course”. “Coni is considered an absolute excellence not only of the country, but of the world sports system. Having kept it so high is a source of pride. Anyone who knows the world of sport knows very well – he added – that there is a high level of professionalism at CONI and we have more than double the private revenues compared to the public contribution thanks to relationships, relationships, sponsors, marketing, initiatives”.
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