The federal secretariat validated the two dossiers, excluding appeals. Competitors hunting for preferences still without a master.
The countdown towards the electoral assembly on December 14th has officially started. The General Secretary of the FIGC, Marco Brunelli, has validated the candidacies of Giovanni Malagò and Adriano Galliani: both can run for the position of president of the Football Federation, which remained vacant after the forfeiture of Malagò himself, appointed extraordinary commissioner by CONI with the task of managing the ordinary administration and calling new elections by January 2027.
Two candidates and one date, barring twists and turns and no holds barred. The weeks that led to the double candidacy were torrid, with sides that split and delineated and with an initial passage to the Federal Court for the issue of the electoral commission that Malagò had set up to support (FIGC version) Brunelli in view of the validation of the two dossiers.
The appeal has not yet been discussed on its merits at the moment, a prelude to what may happen between now and the elective assembly. At stake is the presidency of the FIGC, a system that is vertically divided internally. Last June, after Gabriele Gravina’s step back following the global disaster in Zenica, Malagò was nominated by almost the entire Lega Calcio Serie A (19 out of 20 clubs) and obtained over 68% of the votes. Now his candidacy hangs on the signature of Genoa, the eleventh club to sign his name, which however the opposing side is discussing because it was initially addressed specifically to Galliani. Not a detail, given that without the autograph of the Grifone owner Malagò would not have been able to run, unlike the current Forza Italia senator who was formally accredited by AIC (Assocalciatori) and AIAC (Assoallenatori), the latter protagonists of a turnaround having been supporters of Malagò in June.
All matters for possible appeals, before or after December 14th. Meanwhile, the validation of the candidatures by the General Secretary Brunelli triggered the one-week period within which the contenders or the FIGC Prosecutor’s Office have the possibility to request further information or challenge the documents.
Malagò and Galliani, however, are engaged in a strenuous electoral campaign. To date, more than half of the votes of the delegates of the elective assembly, those representing the Amateurs, Lega Pro and Lega Serie B, are still without a master: whoever manages to convince them will have the chance to win the war, net of appeals.
