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28 March 2024

CONI president looks for positive step forward

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By AP

Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Petrucci hopes on Wednesday's meeting to discuss the problems in top-level Italian football will serve as a positive step forward.

Among those present at the so-called "table of peace" will be Italian football federation president Giancarlo Abete as well as the heads of Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus, Napoli and Fiorentina.

Petrucci acknowledged on Tuesday that the meeting could be tense, but hopes it will bring "a bit of calm into the world of football."

The meeting was organized at the end of November in a bid to ease the ill feeling which has been present since the 2006 match-fixing scandal.

It will start at 9 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Wednesday in Rome.