ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Gabriele Gravina resigned. President Figc has communicated his resignation at the top staged today in Via Allegri with the members, communicating that he has arranged to indirect the extraordinary elective assembly of the Federcalcio for the next 22 June in Rome.
“The meeting between President Gabriele Gravina and the presidents of federal members was held today at the headquarters of Figc in Rome. At the beginning of the work, Gravina informed the maximum representatives of the League Soccer Serie A Ezio Maria Simonelli, of the League B Paolo Bedin, of the League Pro Matteo Marani, of the National League amateurs Giancarlo Abete, of the Italian Association Calciatori Umberto Calcagno and of the Italian Association of Football Coaches Renzo Ulivieri, of having resigned from the task entrusted to him in February 2025 and of having provided to indirect the extraordinary assembly Fig. The date has been identified in full compliance with the Federal Statute and in order to ensure the new governance the completion of the registration procedure for the next professional championships.” This is the statement of the Federcalcio regarding the resignation of President Gabriele Gravina, after the defeat in Bosnia last Tuesday and the failure to qualify for the World Championship for the third consecutive time.
“During the meeting, Gravina also thanked the members for having renewed, in public and private form, the closeness and support to his person and informed the presidents of having willingly made available to intervene in audition on 8 April (at 11) in VII Commission Culture, Science and Education of the Chamber of Deputies to relate on the state of health of Italian football – the federal communiqué continues -. It will be in that place that President Gravina will exhibit, in the most complete and exhaustive manner possible, a report on the strengths and weaknesses of the movement, touching also some of the themes already addressed in the press conference held after the national race played in Zenica on Tuesday 31 March. In this regard, Gravina was said to be regretted for the interpretation of his words on the difference between amateur and professional sports, which did not want to be offensive to any sport discipline, but were a reference to the different rules and regulations inside (for example, the presence in the governance of some Leghe federations with the relative autonomous) and external (with express reference to the corporate nature of professional football clubs that have to subject to international law).
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