Giorgio Marchetti
Deputy General Secretary & Director of Football, UEFA
Italy
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Giorgio Marchetti joined football’s European governing body in February 2004 as Director of Professional Football and Marketing. Following a UEFA reorganization, Giorgio became UEFA Director of Competitions in 2007.
In this role he has been responsible for all UEFA club and national team competitions, at senior and youth level. In December 2016 he became Director of Football, being given responsibility over technical and development matters.
He has a long and extensive experience of Italian and European football on both the
administrative/commercial fronts and contributed greatly to raising the profile of the European football industry.