Blanc to become new Juve president

Frenchman Jean-Claude Blanc is due to take over from Giovanni Cobolli Gigli as the new president of Juventus, according to the club’s website.

Blanc was already the club’s managing director but will replace Cobolli Gigli as of October 27, in what John Elkann, chairman of the Exor company which controls the club, described as a competitive restructuring.

Cobolli Gigli had been Juventus president since 2006 when the club was demoted to Serie B and stripped of its previous two titles for match-fixing in the infamous calciopoli scandal.