So he is replacing Maurizio Beretta, right?
What about FIGC? And which role is more important?
Hmm actually I made a mistake.
Giancarlo Abete was the president of FIGC and he resigned right after Italy's defeat in WC.
La Lega Serie A is the particular group of Serie A clubs, apart and independent from FIGC. It's aim is to solidify the Serie A clubs positions into one, to give them strenght whithin FIGC. This institution is currently presided by Maurizio Beretta, who was reelected last year. Galliani is the vice-president. Agnelli is one of the consiglieri. They organize the Serie A and represent Serie A clubs in FIGC, I believe.
The election for the new FIGC President didn't happen yet. Two of the biggest candidates are Albertini (and his "revolutionary" and modern ideas) and Carlo Tavecchio.
Today there was a meeting within La Lega to define who the Serie A clubs will support to replace Abete at FIGC. It was some kind of "primary" voting whithin a party, to define its candidate for FIGC.
So they decided that La Lega Serie A will support Carlo Tavecchio, 18 x 2, with Juve and Roma voting for Albertini.
So Beretta remains as the president of La Lega, and FIGC remains without an elected president. What is known is that La Lega (all Serie A clubs) will vote for Tavecchio to be the new FIGC president.
The Consiglieri of La Lega within FIGC were nominated as Lotito, Pozzo and Agnelli (besides president Beretta). But Agnelli declined to be a Consiglieri, since he doesn't support Tavecchio's ideas.
Agnelli's words:
"Per coerenza ho tolto la disponibilità a essere consigliere federale. Lavorerò in Lega per mettere nelle migliori condizioni i consiglieri federali. Se riusciremo a realizzare almeno la metà delle cose nel programma nel giro di un anno e mezzo saremo felici. Le primarie sono una provocazione. Mi farebbe piacere che ci fosse una vera elezione generale. Sarebbe vera democrazia. Sui contenuti è il presidente Beretta che deve esprimersi. Ci piacerebbe un meccanismo non partitocratico, no ai delegati, ma per avere un approccio alla democrazia ci vorrebbero le primarie per aprirsi a un confronto democratico. Contano i contenuti, non chi li porta avanti"
"As for coherence, I have declined to be consegliere federale. I will work in Lega to put the consiglieri federale in best conditions. If we succeed to accomplish at least half of things which are in programme in one year and a half and we'll be happy. These primaries voting are solely a provocation. I'd like if it were a true general election. This would be a true democracy. About the result, president Beretta is the one to express himself for Lega. I would like to have a mechanism not of parties (my observation: La Lega Serie A is like a party within FIGC), not to the delegated ones, but in order to have a democratic approach we would like the primaries only to start a democratic confrontation. What counts is the content, what is decided, and not who carries it out".
So there you go. FIGC is much more important than La Lega, which is only a kind of party inside FIGC.
Tavecchio is 71 yrs old, born near Milano, and widely perceived as a continuation of the current system, with a very conservative approach.
That's pretty much it. Doesn't look good.
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