Tavecchio to introduce the "mother of all reforms" in 2015



Conte asks, Tavecchio responds. As I pondered in a piece on December 23, Conte’s “furiousness” about the scheduled end of 2015-16 Serie A (May 22, 2016) is responded in turn by Tavecchio: “A European tournament cannot be prepared in 18 days. The average is 28.8 days. I will personally request an earlier end to the season”, he told Milanese daily Corriere della Sera.

 Such a request may become moot for future tournaments, should Tavecchio’s “mother of all reforms” be passed. In fact, the FIGC president wants to finalize a decision to contract Serie A to 18 teams and Serie B to 20 by June 30, 2015. The change would take effect as of the 2016-17 season. The additional time that a 34-game tournament would afford could be used for the cementing of the national team group of players through minicamps – which the FIGC would prefer – or for players to rest and recuperate their energy – ostensively, the clubs preference. One solution only sets up another fight between national and club teams.

 The contraction of Italy’s top leagues would be the centre piece of Tavecchio’s reforms. Earlier this year, the FIGC council introduced measures to amend Serie A rosters to in order to mirror UEFA requirements, restricting rosters to 25 players as of 2016-17. The intended effect of this is to see a higher number of young Italians playing in Serie A.

 In the interview, Tavecchio confessed that before Conte became available, he was thinking of hiring either Guidolin, Zaccheroni or Zeman to re-launch Italian football. In the end, he’s happy with the choice he made: “we talk almost on a daily basis, he’s a tenacious man and a coach of great value. FIGC has never abandoned their commissario tecnico and his staff”.

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