At the event for launching the third edition of the project “Made in Italy Sport and Innovation”, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced the new Ambassadors of Sports Diplomacy: Andy Diaz, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Vincenzo Nibali, and the Italian Sports Medicine Federation.<\/p>\n
He said: “Sport is also an industry: the sports sector is worth \u20ac32 billion, accounting for almost 1.5% of GDP. Everything we are doing is part of a strategy to ensure that sport can be not only an educational phenomenon and a success for the Italian national teams, but also a fundamental tool for our country’s economic growth. If Italy works to bring together and leverage all its potential, without exception, it can achieve extraordinary results.”<\/p>\n
Speakers at the event included Matteo Zoppas, President of the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), Luciano Buonfiglio, President of CONI, Diego Nepi Molineris, CEO of Sport e Salute<\/em>, Marco Giunio De Sanctis, President of the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP), as well as FIDAL President Stefano Mei; FIN President Paolo Barelli; and FITP President Angelo Binaghi.<\/p>\n The project “Made in Italy Sport and Innovation” aims to promote the excellence of the Italian sports industry worldwide, a strategic sector generating approximately \u20ac32 billion in added value, equivalent to nearly 1.5% of GDP, with exports exceeding \u20ac4.7 billion. Between 2024 and 2025, over 300 Italian Diplomatic and Consular Missions organized nearly 500 sports diplomacy initiatives to promote the Italian system abroad. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the event for launching the third edition of the project “Made in Italy Sport and Innovation”, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced the new Ambassadors of Sports Diplomacy: Andy Diaz, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Vincenzo Nibali, and the Italian Sports Medicine Federation. He said: “Sport is also an industry: the sports sector is worth \u20ac32 billion, accounting […]","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":188523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[408,28],"class_list":["post-188542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-diplomazia-dello-sport","tag-ministro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188544,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188542\/revisions\/188544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}