Managers and high-profile sports figures are among the new members of Giovanni Malag\u00f2\u2019s club. Football matches pit the aristocrats of other clubs against one another. The agri-food sector is in the spotlight at the Verona summit, with Illy and Zoppas in attendance.<\/p>\n
No one in Rome has the ability to operate across the board quite as he does. To move behind the scenes of the key arenas, without ever leaving a trace. And the latest batch of members of the Circolo Canottieri Aniene is a perfect embodiment of Giovanni Malag\u00f2\u2019s approach \u2013 and his world. Following in the footsteps of Francesco Toth, Dino Zoff, Roberto Mandini, Marco Tardelli and Marcello Lippi, the president of the club \u2013 but above all of CONI \u2013 has once again succeeded in bringing together sport and finance by opening the club\u2019s membership to a rather diverse group. For now, they are (not all) merely \u2018occasional members\u2019. There is the world of football, with the membership of AS Roma\u2019s chairman, James Pallotta, and Leicester\u2019s former Roma-born manager, Claudio Ranieri \u2013 who was unceremoniously sacked after leading the team to Premier League victory \u2013 whom his friend Enrico Vanzina persuaded to join. Then there\u2019s the business world, with the incoming CEO of Poste Italiane, Matteo Del Fante, and top executive Fabio Corsico. And the political sphere, with the Sicilian MP Ignazio Abrignani.<\/p>\n