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Revision as of 13:49, 27 June 2012
Massimo Moratti | |
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| Born | 16 May 1945 |
| Nationality |  Italian |
| Occupation(s) | owner of Internazionale FC and C.e.o for Saras S.p.A. |
| Spouse | Emilia Bossi |
| Children | 5 |
Massimo Moratti (born 16 May 1945) is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and President of Italian football team Football Club Internazionale Milano, and Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of Saras S.p.A.
Life and career
Moratti is the fourth son of Angelo Moratti, who was the President of Football Club Internazionale Milano during the team's "Golden Age" from 1955 to 1968. His brother's wife Letizia was the Mayor of Milan from 2006-2011.
Born in the family villa in the Bosco Chiesanuova, close to Verona, he graduated from Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli.
On his father's death, he inherited his shares in Saras, a group that is engaged in the refining of petroleum, where he is presently C.E.O. Moratti is also the owner of Sarlux, headquartered in Cagliari, which focuses on the production of electricity from the waste oil.
Married to the environmental activist Emilia Moratti (née Bossi), the couple have five children. On 10 September 2009, Sauro Gori announced that Moratti had been appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
In May 2011, Moratti supported Giuliano Pisapia's bid to become mayor of Milan against his sister-in-law Letizia. His call for 'change' was perceived as an extension of his rivalry with A.C. Milan supremo, Silvio Berlusconi, from football to the political sphere.[1]
Role at Internazionale
Moratti took over as president of Inter from Ernesto Pellegrini in 1995, during a period where many considered Inter to be underachievers. However, under his leadership Inter has since clinched 5 Serie A titles (2005–2006, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, and 2009–10), 4 Coppa Italia titles (2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2010–11), 4 Supercoppa Italiana titles (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010),1 UEFA Cup (Europa League)(1998) 1 UEFA Champions League title (2010) and 1 FIFA Club World Cup title (2010).
It has long been Massimo's ambition to restore Inter to the heights they once knew under his father. Not being able to do that in the first decade of his chairmanship, he finally obtained his goal in late 2000s. He has won one UEFA Cup (1998), five Scudetti/Serie A in a row (equalling the all-time record), four Coppa Italia (2005, 2006, 2010, 2011), four Supercoppa Italiana (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010), one UEFA Champions League (2010) and one FIFA Club World Cup (2010).
Moratti is said to have spent around €600 million in the transfer market since he took over as president. In July 1999, Moratti sanctioned a then world-record €48 million purchase of striker Christian Vieri and has since purchased numerous superstars, including Ronaldo, Maicon, Adriano, Hernán Crespo, Roberto Baggio, Iván Zamorano, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Luís Figo, Patrick Vieira, Samuel Eto'o, and Wesley Sneijder.
Under the leadership of Moratti, Inter won the Scudetto, the Coppa Italia and the prestigious Champions League in a single season, to become the first ever team to achieve the feat in Italy.
However, criticism also towards Inter fired coaches frequently. Except keeping Giuseppe Baresi and Daniele Bernazzani as backroom staff in the first team or in the youth system, as well as Marco Branca as one of the director, the team had changed from Rafael Benítez, Leonardo, Gasperini and most recently Ranieri in just 2 seasons. Roberto Mancini and José Mourinho were the only two trophy winning and longest serving coach in recent years. Before Mancini, Massimo employed more than 10 short-lived coaches, including Roy Hodgson, Marcello Lippi, Marco Tardelli, Héctor Cúper and Alberto Zaccheroni.
Despite made a huge equity investment on Internazionale, the team was also interconnected with failure on transfer strategy. Fabio Cannavaro was in a directly swap with Fabian Carini, signing ageing star Hakan Şükür and Gabriel Batistuta, bought injury prone, once a rising star Kerlon and many other flops.
The day after Ranieri was dismissed, chief scout of the first team Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi was fired and replaced by the former technical commission of Udinese, Valentino Angeloni.[2] Lanfranchi had served for Inter for 13 years[3] in difference positions.
See also
- Letizia Moratti (Massimo Moratti's Sister-in-law; Gian Marco's wife. Former mayor of Milan)
External links
References
- ^ "Massimo Moratti a sostegno di Pisapia: Berlusconi fa solo autogol". newnotizie.it. Retrieved 2011-06-01.
- ^ http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=39516&L=en
- ^ http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=57259&L=it