“The growth in the value of the federation’s economic production at a time when world qualification has been lacking shows that it exists an emphasized vocation of our political activity that points to a different dimension than the sporting result as an end in itself. Then the sporting result remains fundamental to give enthusiasm but we focus very strongly on innovative and modern planning”. The said it president from the FigcGabriele Gravinaduring the post-council press conference on the aunanimous approval of the 2024 budget. Il the operating result is in fact €0.32 million (320 thousand euros). The gross operating margin stood at €20 million and the pre-tax result at €1.18 million. Furthermore, the 2024 production value is €206.9 million, with the revenue figure linked to partnerships, by far, the highest in the history of the FIGC. In the formulation of the budget, the use of the restricted earmarked fund pursuant to law 234/21 was envisaged for projects aimed at the development of grassroots and training football, which will involve the world of football with all its components. Finally, the positive trend of federal management has made it possible to allocate a few million euros to increase arbitration reimbursements, which have remained unchanged for over 10 years, favoring those who arbitrate at provincial and regional level.
Reforms? The issue is sustainability, not the numbers”
“The problem of reform of Italian football is not that of the reform of the championships, I am surprised that our commitment is reduced to the number of teams. I find it offensive. The central theme is to secure and give content to that term called sustainability“. The number 1 of the Football Federation then took stock of the tables and meetings on the reforms, the summaries of which will be contained in the strategic plan for Italian football which was preliminarily commissioned to Deloitte and which the FIGC president intends to present in Federal Council by February.”Today we are in the emergency phase for not knowing how to manage emergencies – he continued – When I bring the strategic plan I want the names and surnames of those who approve a safeguard plan and those who instead talk about reforms but don’t want to put them into practice. If there is a desire to continue dancing on the Titanic, I will remove the music, they will dance without it“.
“Our quality referees”
“There is great quality in our referees which at an international level are the most used in competitions. What I don’t understand is how it is possible that we have the coordinator at FIFA, UEFA and Italian Concacaf level, the leagues call us for our experience but we don’t understand the quality of our match directors. Excluding this round of Serie A we have had 206 Serie A matches, with 1076 checks from VAR, of which 91 errors were detected. Of these 91, 82 were corrected and 9 were not. It means the error percentage with VAR was reduced to 0.84, while without technology it would be almost 9%.“. Gravina then reported to the Council on the complaint presented to the Rome Prosecutor’s Office in relation to the report broadcast last week during the program ‘Le lene’, to protect the entire world of football and the Italian Referees Association itself, for verify the contents of what was stated and to stimulate any more in-depth verification of the facts reported.
“Missed opportunity not to give honorary Udine citizenship to Maignan”
“I am sorryand’another missed opportunity for the country to send a different signal. I will not go into political evaluations regarding the merits of decisions between the majority and the opposition. We immediately expressed our closeness and solidarity with Mike. Our standards are the strictest internationally, I feel sorry for the city of Udine and for Friuli. If there is a cosmopolitan club it is Udinese.”
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