Franco Carraro
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Franco Carraro is an Italian sport manager and a former member of Italian Socialist Party
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

 in the 1980s and 1990s.

Football

Carraro was born in Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

.

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
Totonero 1986
Totonero 1986 or totonero bis was a scandal of football match fixing in Italy between 1984 and 1986 in Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2....

 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 with Paolo Bergamo
Paolo Bergamo
Paolo Bergamo is an Italian former football referee, who was born on April 21, 1943. He is now better known as the former Italian Football Federation referee designator who was implicated in the 2006 Italian football scandal, and who "stepped down" from his position on July 4, 2006.-References:...

 (manager of Italian referees) Carraro declared that SS 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
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

's exsecutive (until 2009).

Politics

He was Italian minister of tourism in Giovanni Goria
Giovanni Goria
Giovanni Giuseppe Goria was an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1987 until 1988.-Biography:Goria was born in Asti ....

, Ciriaco De Mita
Ciriaco de Mita
Ciriaco Luigi de Mita is an Italian politician. He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 to 1989 and is currently Member of the European Parliament.-Biography:De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland....

 and Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...

's governaments (1987-1991) and was Mayor of Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 (1989-1993) as a member of the Italian Socialist Party
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

 (PSI).

Today Carraro works in Capitalia Bank.

Franco Carraro is the protagonist of the text of a song the band's ska Roman Banda Bassotti
Banda Bassotti
Banda Bassotti is an Italian ska-punk band formed in 1987 in Rome. Their songs are generally political in nature, focusing on Communist and anti-Fascist issues. Many are about Latin America, as well. The band was inspired by The Clash and The Specials. The band was very politically active from the...

 in the song Carraro mayor, whose text is used as criticism against the former president of FIGC for the way it handles the city of Rome and for the possession of several houses also donate to his "horse" (it: buoi):

External links

  • Jonathan O'Brien, The Sunday Business Post
    The Sunday Business Post
    The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. Post Publications is owned by Thomas Crosbie Holdings. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average weekly circulation was 57,783 for the period January to June 2009. The...

    , 16 July 2006, "The Italian Job"
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