Giovanni Malagò elected president of Italian football federation

Giovanni Malagò, who led the Milan Cortina Olympics organising committee, has been elected president of the crisis-laden Italian football federation.

Giovanni Malagò has been elected president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in succession of Gabriele Gravina, who resigned after the national team failed to qualify for a World Cup for the third time in a row. Malagò, 67, received 68.

Giovanni Malagò, who led the Milan Cortina Olympics organizing committee, has been elected president of the crisis-laden Italian soccer federation. Malagò received 68.58% of the votes in Monday’s election, easily beating former federation president Giancarlo Abete, who received 29.17% of the votes and was the only other candidate. Malagò’s first big order of business will be hiring a new coach for Italy’s national team.

Giovanni Malago, who headed the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, became the man charged with revitalising Italian football on Monday after being elected head of the country's football federation (FIGC).Malago is an experienced sports administrator and canny political operator who presided over the birth of a golden age for Italian sport as head of the national Olympic Committee (CONI), the country's highest sporting body, between 2013 and 2025.