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(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 14 – “Coni expresses doubts regarding the provision relating to the independent commission to verify the economic and financial balance of professional sports clubs as it could be detrimental to the principle of autonomy of the sports system, without considering that gives rise to forms of state control over joint-stock companies of an exclusively private nature. This choice could also lead to the adoption of sanctioning measures by FIFA and UEFA, who have already expressed their doubts”. Giovanni Malagò, president of Coni, said this in his hearing in the Chamber’s Culture Committee on the Sport decree. The CONI number one underlines how “the law establishes a non-agile bureaucratic structure which would overlap with the controls which must necessarily be internal to the federations, creating a third, overabundant intervention plan”, continues Malagò. Then, on the timing of the establishment of the Commission, the CONI number one places emphasis on the assumption of urgency which “lies in the fact that at the outcome of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games the sports bodies will be called upon to renew their positions. The assumption on which the urgency is based is wrong: the mandate of this body, in fact, despite having a four-year duration, is completely independent of the four-year Olympic period and that of the federal president and the federal governing bodies”. In conclusion, Malagò underlined how “Coni hopes that the proposal formulated by the national council on 17 May can be taken into consideration but is available to find any mediation between the legislative provision and the needs advanced with our proposal”. (HANDLE).
