The election of LND councillor Daniele Ortolano as vice-president of the FIGC, the unanimous approval of the 2023 budget and the postponement by one month (from 16 February to 16 March) of the sports checks regarding INPS contributions for all clubs in the professional leagues. These were the most important decisions made at today's Federal Council meeting, which opened with a minute's silence in memory of the head of the national team delegation Gianluca Vialli and the former federal president Carlo Tavecchio.

BUDGET 2023. The Board, which in place of the resigning Francesco Ghirelli elected LND councillor Daniele Ortolano as vice-president of the Federation (16 votes in favour and one blank ballot), unanimously approved the 2023 budget, which shows a result for the year of 488,505 euros, with revenues further increasing compared to the 2022 financial year. The Gross Operating Margin is EUR 16.3 million. "The 2023 budget," said FIGC president Gabriele Gravina in the usual press conference following the Board meeting, "highlights the very positive activity in terms of increasing the value of production despite not qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar. Revenues have increased and this makes us understand how the brand of our federation and national teams is valued and followed".

Q & A. Responding to journalists' questions, Gravina expressed regret and concern for what emerged from the verdict in the so-called fictitious capital gains trial. "Juventus has always represented a model in the economic sphere, in the modernisation of facilities, in infrastructure, in decisively launching the project to develop women's football and on the issue of second teams. I would be a fool to rejoice with one of my clubs in such a situation'.

'My role,' he stressed, 'is to identify rules that can guarantee the security of the system and the autonomy of sports justice. Today I don't see any big tools available, we need some intervention from the Italian government. It is not up to me to give suggestions to the Executive, there are ministers in charge, but I expect support, an exchange of thoughts. We are open, we want to solve this problem'.

INPS CONTRIBUTIONS. The Council unanimously approved the postponement by one month (from 16 February to 16 March) of the sports inspections related only to INPS contributions for all clubs in the professional leagues. This decision was motivated by the requests of several clubs, who complained about a non-univocal interpretation of the provincial INPS offices regarding the interest to be applied in the case of instalment payments (the INPS suspensions do not, in fact, fall under the instalment scheme approved by Parliament last December). On this issue, the Federal Council would like to see national management of the problem, so that all INPS offices would agree to the possibility of granting administrative instalments for suspended and non-suspended periods with ordinary application of penalties.

APPOINTMENTS. The new Co.Vi.So.D. (Supervisory Committee on Amateur Football Clubs) staff was appointed: Paolo Longoni (president), Barbara Briolini, Giuseppina Di Cecca, Matteo Annunziata, Nicola Recchia and Roberto Sparano (members).