>Gabriele Gravina
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Gabriele Gravina

He was born in 1953 in Castellaneta, in the province of Taranto. He is an entrepreneur and former university professor, as well as vice president of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Roma and president of the executive committee. He began his career in the world of football as president of Castel di Sangro, a town in Abruzzo with six thousand inhabitants, which he leads to the threshold of Serie A, creating a real sporting miracle. At the federal level, he began as a director of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti di Serie C (now the Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico), before becoming its president in 2015. Several times head of delegation of the Italian national teams, in 2004 he led the last international winning expedition of an Italian youth selection: the Under 21 European Champion in Germany, then bronze medal at the Athens Olympics. After having held the role of federal councilor, on 22 October 2018 he was elected president of the Italian Football Federation, a position in which he was reconfirmed on 22 February 2021 for the following four-year term. On 20 April of the same year he was the most voted in the election for the renewal of the members of the UEFA Executive Committee.