Tavecchio announces reform plans to prevent another Parma scenario

Date: 28th March 2015 at 5:14pm
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FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio has announced plans for historic reforms including a ‘fit and proper person’ test for club owners and financial guarantees to ensure that each side will be able to see out the full season.

The proposals have been put in place to prevent another Parma scenario after they were declared bankrupt, but the Crociati will attempt to continue playing to the end of the season under administration thanks to a €5 million bailout package from the Lega Serie A.

“This is an historic meeting, as we are introducing rules that will keep the Italian football system alive,” the 71-year-old is reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport to have said in a press conference.

“If reconstructing the league is the mother of all reforms, then this is the father.

“Italy has been in a recession for eight years, so football clubs have lost many resources and suffered from a huge shortage of liquidity.

“Therefore, either we reform the system in terms of organisation, management, industry and finance or we’ll run into some serious problems.

“This begins a season of structural reform to avoid the repeat of certain situations in future.

“We approved these rules for Serie A, while in a few weeks we’ll try to do the same for Serie B and Lega Pro.”

 

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