FIGC, Gravina re-elected almost unanimously

There's no two without three. Gabriele Gravina was elected for the third consecutive time as federal president of the FIGC thanks to the 481 thousand votes, Equal to 98,68%, during the elections held in the capital. The number one of the FIGC was elected for the third consecutive time at the head of the Italian football movement almost unanimously, after having presented himself in the elections as the only candidate.

Gravina will remain at the helm of the Italian football movement for three more years, after being elected for the first time in 2018 immediately after the Italian flop of failing to qualify for the World Cup in Russia in November 2017. However, this is a victory comparable to a penalty kicked into an empty net, as the number one of Italian football had presented himself at these elections without direct rivals following the failure of both the former footballer of JuventusAlex Del Piero, with rumours of his possible candidacy having circulated a few months ago but which have never found any confirmation in reality, both of the president of the Lazio Claudio Lotito.

“Thank you so much for your support of a dimension of great responsibility _ he declared immediately after the elections _ it is a great honor and a great pride, now we just have to transform it into a premise for victory. We must continue on our path, hit all the targets which football really needs". The speech was closed by the federal president with a quote from Harry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”

Gravina's path has been one of light and shade since his first election as head of the FIGC, in which the joy of Conquest of the European Championship 2021 they alternated big disappointments like the second failure to qualify in a row at the final stage of the World Cup and the early exit in the round of 2024 during the XNUMX European Championships as reigning champions after a very hard-won passage to the next round. In addition to the president, the twenty councilors who will be part of the new federal council were also appointed during the morning, in addition to Ezio Simonelli whose entry was already automatic as a representative of the League. The president of Inter will also sit on the board Beppe Marotta, Stefano Campoccia (Udinese) and Francis Calvo (Juventus) for Serie A; Paolo Bedin e Giovanni Carnivali (Serie B); Matteo Marani e Daniele Sebastiani (Pro League); Author: Giancarlo Abete (Lnd); Umberto Calcagno, Davide Biondini, Sara Gama, Valerio Bernardi (athletes); Giancarlo Camolese, Silvia City (technical).