[1] Just after World War I, football became the national sport in Italy, with growing economic revenues.
However, the Italian Football Championship was still based on an amatorial and pletoric structure of 88 clubs divided in regional groups that the democratic organization of the FIGC could not change.
As the lexical difference, copied from the American Civil War, showed, the Confederation opposed the Federation with a lighter structure, where the real power was vested in the leagues, which organized their own championships.
Despite its economic success, the CCI suffered the lack of international recognition by the FIFA, while the FIGC remained with a poor championship with bankruptcy risks.
The director of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Mr Colombo, was asked for a gentleman agreement which became very similar to a surrender of the FIGC.