Macron is supporting Vicenza Calcio, the troubled Italian professional football club based in Vicenza, Veneto, which has been placed in administration. The Macron Store in Vicenza has launched a campaign to help the team. Starting on Jan. 20, Macron said the store will donate 20 percent of every sale of Vicenza Calcio merchandising to the office of the insolvency administrator. Macron is Vicenza's technical sponsor. The campaign is to help the club complete the 2017/18 season. Founded in 1902 as Associazione del Calcio in Vicenza, the club became Lanerossi Vicenza in 1953. Vicenza Calcio currently plays in Italy's Serie C, but has spent the entire 1960s, most of the 1970s and a large part of the 1990s in Serie A, the main division of Italian professional football. Paolo Rossi, who won the FIFA World Cup with Italy in 1982, played for Vicenza early in his career. Roberto Baggio, another legendary Italian football player, started his career at the club in the mid-1980s. On Jan. 18, 2018 a tribunal formally declared the club bankrupt. However, the club will be allowed to continue to play in Serie C until the end of this season. Interested parties have until the start of next season to form a new club. Meanwhile, control of the name and history of the club will pass to the mayor of Vicenza, who is supposed to find new owners to form a new club, which will be able to restart from Serie D - Italy's top amateur league.

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