Giovanni Malagò (born 13 March 1959) is an Italian businessman, sports manager and former

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

player. He is the current president of the

Italian National Olympic Committee The Italian National Olympic Committee ( it, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. ...

(CONI). Since 1 January 2019 he is a member of the

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

Life and career

Born in Rome, since his youth Malagò practiced different sports and notably futsal, in which discipline he won 3 league titles with

Roma RCB AS Roma Futsal is a futsal club based in Rome, Italy. In the year 2004 Roma RCB and Gruppo Sportivo BNL merged in AS Roma Futsal Honours Roma RCB * Campionato Italiano di Calcio a 5#Albo d’oro del campionato maschile, Campionati italiani: 5 ...

and in 1986 he attended with the national team the World Cup in Brazil. After graduating in economics, he became CEO of Samocar, a car sales company founded by his father Vincenzo in 1977. As a sports manager he became chairman of the

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

Aniene Rowing Club in 1997 and then he was chairman of the organizing committee of the Italian Open of tennis. In 2000 Malagò became a member of the Executive of the

, dealing with many international sporting events organized in Italy, such as the European Volleyball Championship in 2005 and the World Swimming Championships in 2009. On 19 February 2013 he was resoundingly elected President of CONI against Raffaele Pagnozzi, secretary general of the Committee since 1993, who had the support of the outgoing President Gianni Petrucci and of the major sports federations including the

Italian Football Federation The Italian Football Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio; FIGC), known colloquially as ''Federcalcio'', is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence. It ...

. Malagò currently leads the organizing committee of the

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Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

and

Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malago, Giovanni 1959 births Living people Italian men's futsal players Businesspeople from Rome Sportspeople from Rome Sports managers International Olympic Committee members Presidents of the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games

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