AFP, ROME: Banker Gaetano Micciche was elected Serie A president on Monday, filling a position that had been vacant for a year and plugging part of the void at the top of Italian football.

Micciche -- a 67-year-old native of Palermo in Sicily and the president of the IMI investment bank -- was nominated by Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) president Giovanni Malago and elected unanimously by the 20 clubs in the division to take a position that had been vacant since last March.