Overview
- The Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport issued a negative consultative opinion refusing FIGC’s request to place the Associazione Italiana Arbitri (AIA) under commissariamento.
- The opinion said the AIA’s vice president vicario, Francesco Massini, together with the National Committee, can ensure continuity and that a regime of prorogatio limits the federation’s powers to ordinary administration.
- The decision moves the issue toward internal remedies and a likely path to new AIA elections rather than an external takeover, a course Massini has framed as a call for a ‘reset’.
- Journalists and officials warn that a newly elected president would probably lack time to make customary technical appointments such as designatori before decisions normally made in early July.
- Prorogatio is a temporary extension that narrows actions to routine administration, so the next steps to watch are the FIGC council discussion, the AIA’s internal reform proposals, and the scheduling and conduct of replacement elections.