Recent Years
The FIGC was placed in administration in May 2006 as a result of the Serie A scandal of 2006 and was put under the management of Guido Rossi.
In May 2006, Rossi was chosen and accepted the role of President of Telecom Italia. This appointment caused angry reactions from club presidents in Italy.
On September 19, Rossi resigned his position as Commissioner of FIGC. On September 21, Luca Pancalli, head of the Italian Paralympic Committee, was chosen to replace Rossi.
On April 2, 2007, a president was finally elected, with former Vice-President Giancarlo Abete being voted by 264 grand electors out of 271.
On December 2, 2008, the FIGC announced the top ten all time greatest Italian football players. They were (in order):
- Giuseppe Meazza
- Luigi Riva
- Roberto Baggio
- Paolo Maldini
- Giacinto Facchetti
- Sandro Mazzola
- Giuseppe Bergomi
- Valentino Mazzola
- Marco Tardelli
- Paolo Rossi
Read more about this topic: Italian Football Federation
Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Not so many years ago there there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel—movement through space—provided the universal metaphor for change.... One of the subtle confusions—perhaps one of the secret terrors—of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Then for years and years
And for miles and miles
‘Cross the Aegean Isles,
Athens, Rome, France, Britain,
Always West-Northwest ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)