- Franco Carraro
Franco Carraro (born
December 6 1939 ) is an Italian sport manager and a former member ofItalian Socialist Party in the 1980s and 1990s.Football
Carraro was born in
Padua .He was the president of Italian Federation of Ski-Nautic between 1962 and 1965 and was AC Milan's president between 1967 and 1971.
In the 1970s he worked in Italian Football Federation (FIGC); he was president of Italian League of Serie A and B (1973-1976) and president of Italian Football Federation (1976-1978). On
May 19 1978 he resigned to become CONI's president, a position which he held until 1987.In the occasion of the Totonero 1986 scandal Carraro was nominated commissaire of FIGC from 1986 and 1987, and afterwards he was president of Italia'90 Comitate (Exsecutive Comitate of
FIFA World Cup 1990 ).From 1997 to 2001 Carraro was president of Italian League (after 24 years) and again president of FIGC between 2001 and 2006. In the latter year he was however forced to quit FIGC as he was one of the protagonists in
Calciopoli ; in a talk withPaolo Bergamo (manager of Italian referees) Carraro declared thatSS Lazio must be helped to avoid being relegated in Serie B.His original punishment was 4 years and 6 months, but later that was turned into a fine of 80,000 euros.
From 1982 Carraro is a member of Olimpic Comitate International and from 2004 he is a member of
UEFA 's exsecutive (until 2009).Politics
He was Italian minister of tourism in
Giovanni Goria ,Ciriaco De Mita andGiulio Andreotti 's governaments (1987-1989) and was Major ofRome (1989-1993) as a member of theItalian Socialist Party (PSI).Today Carraro works in
Capitalia Bank .External links
* Jonathan O'Brien, "
The Sunday Business Post ",16 July 2006, [http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/07/16/story15710.asp "The Italian Job"]
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