Antoine Chiarisoli

{{Short description|French association football administrator}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Antoine Chiarisoli | image = | office = President of the French Football Federation | term_start = 1963 | term_end = 1968 | predecessor = Pierre Pochonet | successor = Jacques Georges | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year|1903}} | birth_place = Ajaccio, France | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{Hlist|Football administrator}} }} '''Antoine Chiarisoli''' (1903–?) was a French lawyer and sports administrator who served as president of the French Football Federation (FFF) from 1963 to 1968.<ref name="openedition">{{cite web |last=Raspaud |first=Michel |url=https://books.openedition.org/pur/243429 |title=Le football professionnel français et Mai 68 |publisher=openedition.org |pages=169–187 |language=fr |date=May 1968 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fff.fr/35-elections-fff-2024/772-presidence-et-comite-executif-de-la-fff.html |title=13 présidents depuis 1919 |publisher=French Football Federation |language=fr }}</ref>

==Career== Originally form Ajaccio,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.inpiazza.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Inpiazza_221.pdf |title=Le Sacre de Versailles pour le Gazelec Football Club Ajaccien |publisher=Inpiazza |language=fr |date=7 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://lepetitbastiais.corsica/JDS/LPB-1104.pdf |title=Il y a 60 ans, des premiers pas prometteurs |publisher=Le Petit Bastiais |language=fr |date=31 August 2025 }}</ref> Chiarisoli was a member of the Paris advocates' council during the 1950s. He became president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel on 5 May 1961, and in February 1963 he was elected president of the French Football Federation, a step toward uniting professional and amateur football.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1963/02/25/me-chiarisoli-president-de-la-federation_2230267_1819218.html |title=Me CHIARISOLI PRÉSIDENT DE LA FÉDÉRATION |publisher=Le Monde |language=fr |url-access=subscription |date=25 February 1963 }}</ref>

In 1965, he negotiated with the ORTF for live television broadcasts of French championship matches on Saturday afternoons, typically two per month, marking one of the earliest regular TV agreements in French domestic football.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1965/02/11/accord-pour-la-retransmission-des-matches-du-championnat-de-france-par-la-television_2185281_1819218.html |title=ACCORD POUR LA RETRANSMISSION DES MATCHES DU CHAMPIONNAT DE FRANCE PAR LA TÉLÉVISION |publisher=Le Monde |language=fr |date=11 February 1965 }}</ref> The following year, he asked the president of the Paris city council to examine a project to enlarge the Parc des Princes stands, arguing that the stadium was too small for major events. He resigned from the presidency of the Ligue de Football Professionnel in March 1967, and Jean Sadoul succeeded him.<ref name="openedition"/>

During the May 68, militant players and activists who occupied the FFF headquarters explicitly targeted Chiarisoli as a symbol of bourgeois and conservative leadership aligned with Gaullist authority, and as a result he did not stand for re-election.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-marc-b/blog/200421/22-mai-68-le-comite-daction-des-footballeurs-occupe-la-federation |title=22 Mai 68: le Comité d'Action des footballeurs occupe la Fédération |publisher=mediapart.fr |language=fr |date=20 April 2021 }}</ref>

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