FIGC, why did Gravina sack Boccardelli from Covisoc?
What happened to the Covisoc leaders? Facts, names, rumors and reconstructions
Upheaval at Covisoc, the supervisory commission for professional football clubs.
President Paolo Boccardelli (in the photo) was surprisingly replaced before the end of his mandate (the four-year mandate ends next June), with government approval, it is said in football circles, and therefore not only at the hands of the FIGC leaders chaired by Gabriele Gravina.
Here are facts, names, rumors and reconstructions.
GERMANA PANZIRONI IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF COVISOC
Germana Panzironi is the new president of Covisoc, the supervisory commission for professional football clubs. During the federal council held this week, the FIGC chaired by Gabriele Gravina appointed her with the votes of almost all the members. One was missing , that of Lazio owner Claudio Lotito.
For Gravina this is an important result, which arrived – according to the newspaper La Verità – amidst the controversies of several Serie A and Serie B clubs who have had to deal with Panzironi in the past, in particular when she was a sports judge.
Panzironi is the current president of the Abruzzo TAR, but in the past she was also head of cabinet of important ministries. “The appointment of an administrative magistrate as president of Covisoc risks compromising the impartiality of the commission that evaluates the admission process of football clubs to the championships. The appeals against the measures, in fact, end up right at the TAR", we read in Calcio&Finanza .
The point now will therefore be to keep the football teams that are already on a war footing at bay. Panzironi's appointment, in fact, in addition to presenting potential conflicts of interest (she is president of the TAR of Abruzzo where appeals against Covisoc measures could also be received), once again establishes the imbalance of internal powers within the FIGC federal council, where the teams of Serie A and Serie B boast fewer votes than the amateur ones and even the players' association, added Calcio&Finanza .
WHAT THE GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT WROTE
Some traces of friction between Gravina and Boccardelli can be found in an article in the Gazzetta dello Sport , dated 23 July:
“ The incandescent summer of Serie B does not leave Gabriele Gravina calm. There is something that just doesn't sit right with him and he is ready to intervene as soon as possible and harshly to change things. The limit is full and he puts aside political correctness and has his say: "We closed the championship in June with two images: a club that wins the playoffs, Lecco, and one that sacks the stadium because it was relegated (Brescia, ed.). It's strange, today Lecco is in the third category and Brescia in Serie B, it's clear that there's something wrong. Respecting the decisions that the judicial bodies will make, I say that a message has been sent that is contrary to the values of sport."
Heavy words pronounced by the federal president on Saturday evening in the square of Rivisondoli in the «Il calcio di futuro» conference, which come after the sentence of the Guarantee Board at CONI which exactly a week ago, accepting Perugia's appeal, condemned Lecco to from the begining. It was the fault of a delay in the documentation on the stadium, which the Football Federation had deemed non-binding given that it had occurred in light of a postponement of the Lega Pro calendar, so much so that Lecco deserved confirmation of the Serie B. But at the moment, after the CONI, remains out, while Brescia, as Gravina himself declared, thanks to the non-admission of Reggina blocked by Covisoc, is preparing to participate in the tournament from which it was relegated.
The result is precisely "a message contrary to the values of sport", which the president no longer intends to accept. And from words he wants to move on to actions: after the summer he will propose a block on repechages and readmissions. An important move that would inevitably lead to the elimination of any possible appeal and therefore a way to immediately have a clear picture of the championships. “To think that every time the losers wait for readmission or repechage goes against sport and those values that we want to carry forward also to bring families closer to the stadium. Football – said Gravina at the conference – is experiencing a fiery summer in the courts, for reasons that sooner or later we will have to face decisively”. Here, he will address them by asking to change the regulations, even if at the moment the reform – which cannot necessarily be completed in a very short time – is yet to be defined, because we need to understand the repercussions on the formats of the championships. It will certainly have important effects, especially to avoid a summer like this one, spent waiting for sentences, so much so as to push the FIGC to wait for the decision of the Council of State on 29 August before making the roster and therefore starting Serie B and C." Defeats must be accepted – concluded Gravina – thinking that every year the championships have to suffer a negative impact due to those waiting for readmissions or repechages is not good for sport. And it is damage to the brand of Italian football ."
BOCCARDELLI'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH INTESA SANPAOLO
Boccardelli is not a secondary figure in the palaces of Roman power. Economist, professor at Luiss, present on the board of directors as currently on that of Tim, he was on the board of directors of Ubi Banca (where he did not oppose the takeover bid of Intesa Sanpaolo), always in constructive relations with the group led by Carlo Messina. Luiss's partnerships with Intesa also demonstrate this.
“For Italy it is a tragedy. We have at least 2 million NEETs between the ages of 15 and 29”. Thus Paolo Boccardelli, professor of Economics at Luiss University, recently illustrated – according to the Repubblica report – the data of a focus on the theme of Not in Education, Employment or Training, (individuals who do not study, do not work and do not seek an occupation) at the Intesa Sanpaolo No One Excluded event in Brescia. “The European average is 11.7%, while in Italy it is 23.1%. More than double,” he explains to give the dimensions of the phenomenon.
Boccardelli was also co-author of a research entitled Intesa Sanpaolo's areas of intervention on employability issues , which examined in depth "the main initiatives and programs that demonstrate the concrete action that Intesa Sanpaolo, in collaboration with various Partners, implements to encourage employability in Italy”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/figc-covisoc-gravina-boccardelli/ on Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:19:56 +0000.