We receive and publish this intervention by Angelo Francini addressed to director Stagi following the publication of the article "If the Football League comes to help the Italian Football Federation" published yesterday.

Dear Pier

once again you offer an interpretation that, coming from someone with your experience, I would not have expected: frankly, I tell you this with the friendship and candor that has existed between us for over forty years, I struggle to understand your positions when you write about Cordiano Dagnoni. It is true that Malagò asked for financial assistance from the Serie A League for the senior National team: but this request is directed directly to the clubs in Serie A, through the League that represents them, and the intervention requested is not aimed at the coffers of League A. Therefore, a situation in football that is institutionally different from that of the FCI: in football the Leagues are autonomous bodies, formed by ALL the clubs that participate in the championships that each League manages, with functions widely established in the Statute and in the NOIF FIGC and with officials registered as federal officials at the FIGC.

The Cycling League is not an organ of the FCI, but is a private association that must affiliate with the FCI, and its functions are not contemplated in the FCI Statute, but are deferred to a convention signed between the FCI and the Cycling League. Now all the functions that the Cycling League carries out are contained in its Statute, approved by the FCI, and in the convention signed with the FCI: therefore, dear Pier, how can you defend and support the positions of the federal president in noting that no one forced him to sign with the League the two documents mentioned above: with all the "absurd concessions" they contain, contrary to the FCI Statute. Not to mention that the Cycling League is not an FCI organ, is not affiliated with the FCI, does not have its officials registered with the FCI: that is, the FCI approved the Statute and signed the convention with whom and on what basis of powers: NONE and the error would be the Cycling League's?

A small note: at the last national electoral Assembly it was the intention of the General Secretary to run for the Presidency: this did not happen due to the lack of a statutory requirement, which he is now trying to make disappear in the federal proposal for the new Statute, and he shifted his "electoral package" collected by his proconsul onto Dagnoni: as the same often publicly acknowledges to the Secretary thanking him for his re-election. From that moment on, the FCI has a president elected as a stand-in for the real president.

Angelo Francini

And here is the director's reply

Dear Angelo,

thank you for your intervention, always precise and timely, which however goes in the rigorous direction of regulations, which is your natural territory. Forgive me if I am very brief, but I do not want to bore the many cycling enthusiasts who have followed us for years and are absolutely not passionate about codes, codicils, provisions and conventions. I limit myself only to saying that in my intervention yesterday I was hoping for a political intervention, which has nothing to do with statutory issues. The conclusion of my piece is self-explanatory: "It is not necessary to open the purse strings, but it is sufficient to have some doors opened: perhaps those of Sport & Salute". Therefore, the Cycling League must not touch a single euro of what it has in its coffers, if the president Pella wants it, he has the tools, knowledge and friendships necessary to give a boost to the Federation and this is not contemplated by the Statute, but by politics.

With friendship, Pier