Crisis-hit Italian football set for reforms in 2016

Serie A chiefs have welcomed a new package of reforms by the Italian football federation (FIGC) that will see squads limited to 25 players in a move designed to boost the flagging Italian game. The crisis-hit Italian top flight has become a target for top players, coaches and critics in recent months, while Italy suffered their second consecutive first-round exit from a World Cup in Brazil last summer.
Earlier this week national team coach Antonio Conte complained the archetypal Italian player who could once strike fear into opponents is now "dying out". At a FIGC meeting on Thursday new laws were voted that will see squads limited to 25 players.