Italian champions Juventus, whose entire board quit last week over match-fixing allegations, will hand control of the club over to the head of its majority shareholder when directors meet again on May 19th.
In a statement, the Serie A soccer club, which clinched this season's title on Sunday, said Carlo Sant'Albano, chief executive of Ifil, would take on "specific management powers" at the board meeting.
Ifil is the holding company of the Agnelli family and has a 62 per cent stake in Juventus, according to data from bourse regulator Consob.
Juventus said the board meeting would also "update the situation on company business."
A spokesman said the entire board would meet because all the directors had given up specific roles through resigning. A shareholders' meeting scheduled for June 29th should decide on a new board.
Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi, whose intercepted telephone conversations triggered the scandal, was questioned by prosecutors in Rome yesterday.
Italy's Football Federation was today placed under emergency administration.
The country's national Olympic committee (CONI) met this morning and the news agency ANSA said it had opted to place an emergency administrator, Guido Rossi, in charge of the federation.
Federation president Franco Carraro and his vice-president Innocenzo Mazzini resigned last week.
Magistrates in Naples probing telephone taps and looking into suspicions of match fixing have placed 41 people under investigation.
Juventus could be stripped of titles and face relegation to Serie B if their officials are found guilty of attempting to influence the outcome of matches.
AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina have also come under the scrutiny of investigators along with referees, and federation and club officials.
Investigators are speaking to AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti, Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini, Football League president Adriano Galliani and former top referee Pierluigi Collina today , although none of them are under investigation.
The four were being being interviewed simply as "persons who may have knowledge of events".
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