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The Italian pyramid and how the tiers below the top flight are organised
Beneath a national top division sit tiers that split into regional groups, and the point at which a pyramid stops being national explains most of its economics.
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Why a league body and a federation are different bodies, and what each decides
The organisation that runs a top division and the association that governs the whole sport in a country are separate entities with overlapping claims, and the boundary between them is negotiated rather than fixed.
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