The 20 football clubs in Italy’s league demonstrated against the government’s project to create an institution to supervise their finances.
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the Italian League and the elite clubs went up in arms against a project of the Italian government headed by the prime minister Giorgia Meloniwho wants to create an institution that oversees their finances.
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After an extraordinary meeting called on Monday by Italian Leaguethe twenty clubs of the Italian championship “unanimously express their opposition to the proposal to create a government agency for the economic and financial supervision of professional sports clubs.”
“The clubs claim the autonomy of the sports system in relation to the political system (…) and reiterate once again the need to move towards the full autonomy of Serie A within the sports system,” indicated the Italian League through a statement. After the meeting, the president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravinaasked “to urgently see the Minister of Sports, Andrea Abodiin the company of the president of the Italian Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malago“.
Italian clubs close ranks
Those responsible for Italian football remember that an institution already exists within the FIGC, the Commission for the Surveillance of Professional Football Clubs (COVISOC), in charge of monitoring the accounts of the Serie A clubs.. “This project is disrespectful towards our institutions. It is clear that COVISOC would no longer be independent” if the government project goes to the end, he warned. Gabriele Gravina.
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The Italian government wants to launch an agency for the economic and financial supervision of professional sports clubs, especially targeting football and basketball. The Minister of Sports justified the creation of this institution on Rai Radio 1, recalling that “in the last 18-24 months alone, 1st, 2nd and 3rd division clubs have stopped paying 100 million euros in taxes (about 108 millions of dollars)”.
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