Pirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting firm links
"Anyone who is or has been promoting Russia after 2022 should not hold national office," said Carlo Calenda of the centrist Azione party. "To assign a political meaning to that collaboration means ascribing to me beliefs which I have never expressed and that do not belong to me," Pirlo wrote. Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European Parliament, said at the weekend that Italian football "desperately needed a cultural, ethical and managerial revolution" but that the choice of Pirlo "goes in the exact opposite direction".
- ▪"Anyone who is or has been promoting Russia after 2022 should not hold national office," said Carlo Calenda of the centrist Azione party.
- ▪"To assign a political meaning to that collaboration means ascribing to me beliefs which I have never expressed and that do not belong to me," Pirlo wrote.
- ▪Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European Parliament, said at the weekend that Italian football "desperately needed a cultural, ethical and managerial revolution" but that the choice of Pirlo "goes in the exact opposite direction".
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Pirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting firm linksImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Andrea Pirlo is currently the head coach of the UAE's Dubai UnitedByLaura GozziPublished20 minutes agoAndrea Pirlo has said he is no longer a candidate to coach the Italian national side following days of controversy over his ties to a Russian betting company.His appointment as Italy's next head coach had not been confirmed by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) yet was being treated as all but certain.But over the weekend several Italian politicians criticised the FIGC's choice, noting that Pirlo, 47, had taken up a role as global ambassador for Russia's Fonbet last October.The betting company has sponsored several sporting events involving veterans of Moscow's…
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