Report Malagò could become special commissioner of FIGC to replace himself
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - MARCH 05: Giovanni Malago, President of the Organising Committee for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, speaks during the Paralympic Games Opening Press Conference ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at on March 05, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images)
The Lega Serie A has released a statement backing Giovanni Malagò as FIGC President, but a truly bizarre idea is taking shape to revoke his election and instead install him as special commissioner.
The chaotic situation will come to a head tomorrow, with the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) commission due to decide whether to declare the landslide June election null and void, therefore placing the Federation under a special commissioner.
This is because when Malagò won the election, he was not a registered member of the FIGC, and therefore should not have been a candidate.
That is not up for debate, but the Lega Serie A reiterated in a formal statement today that it is continuing to support Malagò and considers a special commissioner to be “entirely inopportune, as it could draw football into chaos during a delicate time.”
UEFA have also threatened that putting the FIGC under a commissioner could put their co-hosting duties for EURO 2032, alongside Turkiye, in doubt.
However, an extraordinary and quite ridiculous idea is taking shape.
Sky Sport Italia and others report that CONI President Luciano Buonfiglio has asked Malagò to a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss the possibility that the FIGC be placed under a special commissioner, who will be Malagò himself.
He might not have the paperwork to be elected President of the FIGC, but he can legally have the role of commissioner and still enact the same reforms.
This can also give the FIGC time to either give Malagò membership and hold a new election, or change the electoral rules to make him an eligible candidate when the next election comes around.
Bizarrely, he was already briefly the special commissioner for the Lega Serie A for a month in early 2018 when they were struggling to elect a new President.
At the time, he was in charge of the CONI, the same body that is now ruling on his FIGC status.
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