Ten Reforms for Italian Football
With election of a new president of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC, Italian football federation), there is great opportunity for much needed reforms in Italian football. I’ll spare you a long preamble which would enlist the myriad of problems with Italian football - be it a failed national team showing at the past two world cups, apathy toward the Italian Cup, a spiralling UEFA club coefficient, poorer stadium attendance, shrinking percentage of Italian footballers in the league, increase in violence and of racist and territorial discrimination - we will present ten practical reforms (some small, some big) that would improve Italian football’s current state and brand, in particular Italy’s foremost football division, Serie A. 1. Build New, Club-Owned Stadia Not hard to propose “club-owned stadia” as one of the much needed changes. The “how” is as - if not more - important than the “what”. Italian government will not gift Serie A club’s brand new stadia and th...