The world of sport it’s like the game of chairs, with a variation: when you stop the musicathere is always one free chair where to sit, moving from one task to another, or even from one Federation to the other. As just happened between badminton e weights: the roles change, not the faces.
The big one electoral round of sport continues is the last to go to the vote is the Weightlifting Federation Italian (FPI). More than a vote, actually, a plebiscite: the new president, Alberto Migliettaobviously the only candidate, was elected col 99,68% of preferences. Record. Miglietta succeeds the former n.1 in full continuity, Antonio Ursuswith whom he knows well, and who is now determined to try the international adventure. However, he leaves his world in trusted hands. Miglietta is not at all a new name in the environment: notoriously close to Giovanni Malagòhas already been federal president, for almost 15 years, but of badminton. Then in 2017, to maintain the position of CEO in Coni Services (before this was transformed by the government into Sports and Health), had handed over to the Federation, but only for show, placing the historic deputy in his place (Carlo Beninatistill in office) and being given the ad personam title of “president emeritus”. But an honor is never the same thing, a very different thing presidency verawith all the trappings of the case. Thus Miglietta is once again at the helm of a Federation and will therefore also return to the national council of CONI, where he will also have right to vote next spring in the elections of n.1 in Italian sport.
It’s not even about a episode isolated. For a few years, for example, he had already traced the path Michele Bumformer president of Danzaappointed by Malagò as head of the promoting committee E-Sports Italy. The pattern is not random: it must be remembered, in fact, that until recently, when the law on the limit of three terms was still in force and it seemed that at this time the chop itseveral presidents had begun to think about the idea of exchange Federations as if they were figurines, to stay in the saddle. Found not too dissimilar to that of billiards e bowling to get together and create a new Federationto reset the account to its n.1 Andrea Mancino. The most disparate and unlikely combinations of disciplines ready to exchange their respective leaders were already circulating. Then nothing more happened. The mandate limit is fallenthe presidents held the own Federations (all rather easily, as demonstrated by the elections held so far) and it was not necessary to resort to mass exchange. In some specific situations, however, that idea is still useful, as for Miglietta. And for those who wonder what badminton has in common with weights, dance with video games, the answer is simple: armchair.
