🔴 Italy, meeting with the FIGC at 14.30! Is a U-turn looming?
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After Tuesday night’s debacle in Bosnia, which will force us to watch the World Cup from the couch for the third straight time, Italian football is preparing to start over from scratch, this time for real.
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The FIGC president, Gabriele Gravina, has in fact called a meeting with the federal components for 2:30 p.m., namely the representatives of Serie A, Serie B, Serie C, Amateur football, the Coaches’ Association and the Players’ Association.
After Easter, meanwhile, the Federal Council is scheduled to meet, and it is expected to decide on the future of Gravina himself and of Italian football.
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Abodi: "Maldini? There are many like him"
Speaking to RLT, the Minister for Sport, Andrea Abodi, said:
"What kind of profile? I hope for a commissioner until the new elections, which should not be held immediately because that would solve nothing".
Then, on the figure of Maldini: "Paolo is a wonderful person and a fantastic footballer, but there are many like him. But the chosen one will have to be decided by the football system; that is the respect we want to show as a Government".
Who will take the bench?
At the same time, there is also huge attention on the future of the Azzurri bench. By now it seems certain: Gennaro Gattuso will no longer be the head coach. Buffon and Bonucci are also expected to leave with him.
Here too, the first possible profiles are already circulating: from Conte to Allegri, even going as far as the candidacy of Pep Guardiola (re-launched by Gazzetta dello Sport). Top-level coaches, in short, to lift a national team that has fallen apart.
The scenarios
From what is emerging, Gravina’s position is hanging by a thread more than ever. If yesterday it seemed that the FIGC president might manage to keep the leadership this time as well, today the chances of his departure are growing.
Even more so because — as revealed by Sky Sport — the first names for the succession are already starting to circulate: an Abete bis (it would be a return after his spell from 2007 to 2014) and Giovanni Malagò, former president of CONI.
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