Gravina earns third time period as Italian Soccer Federation President

February 4 – Incumbent Gabriele Gravina has been re-elected as president of the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) for a 3rd time period following a powerful electoral victory. 

The only candidate for the election, the 71-year-old garnered a wholesome 98.68 per cent share of the vote – incomes him a mandate till 2028. 

Each FIFA President Gianni Infantino and UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin attended the electoral congress within the Italian capital Rome. 

Gravina stated: “Soccer is sweet for Italy. We by no means cease bearing witness to this. If I look again at these six years spent collectively, I discover many causes for satisfaction. To begin with, we gained the largest problem of the final 70 years. Holding Italian soccer alive throughout the pandemic.  

“We succeeded by difficult the pessimism and moralism that accompany the occasions of epidemics as a result of we affirmed the suitable to be glad that soccer represents the most important and most common issue of passions on our planet.”  

Final 12 months, Gravina turned a part of a probe by Rome prosecutors for alleged embezzlement and cash laundering linked to an public sale of TV rights within the Italian third-tier. He denied any wrongdoing.  

Throughout his reign, Italy’s fortunes on the sector have been combined. The Azzurri gained Euro 2020 however didn’t qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.  

Eventually summer time’s European championship in Germany, the Italians exited the event within the spherical of 16 with a defeat to Switzerland. 

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