25 Facts About Andrea Agnelli

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Since May 2010, Agnelli served as chairman of Italian association football club Juventus FC, which it returned to the Italian football dominance throughout the 2010s with nine consecutive record-breaking Serie A titles, along with four consecutive national doubles and one domestic treble, as well as to European competitiveness, with one UEFA Europa League semifinal and two UEFA Champions League finals.

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Andrea Agnelli was the last male member of the family to carry the Agnelli surname until the birth of his son Giacomo.

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Andrea Agnelli is related to John Elkann, Lapo Elkann, and Alessandro Nasi, the cousin of Elkann.

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Andrea Agnelli studied at St Clare's, Oxford, and then at Bocconi University in Milan.

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In November 2000, Andrea Agnelli moved to Paris to take on marketing responsibility for Uni Invest SA, a Sanpaolo IMI company specializing in the offer of asset management products.

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Andrea Agnelli is on the advisory board of BlueGem Capital Partners LLP, and he is the president of the Piedmont Foundation for Oncology.

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In January 2023, Andrea Agnelli announced his resignation from the position in Stellantis, effective at the close of the 2023 annual general meeting of shareholders, and that he would not reapply for the role in Exor.

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In May 2010, Andrea Agnelli was appointed chairman of the club's board of directors after the stakeholders assembly, and became the fourth member of the Andrea Agnelli family to run the football club after his father, his uncle, and his grandfather.

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On 22 May 2011, Andrea Agnelli appointed as the new coach Antonio Conte, former Juventus captain and fan favourite who had called him to propose himself for the role, replacing Delneri after another disappointing season and seventh place in the league, which precluded the club from any UEFA competition and was not acceptable for Andrea Agnelli, whose motto was "Playing for Juventus, working for Juventus, one goal: to win".

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Andrea Agnelli became the second third-generation member of the Fiat-owner family to be involved with the Italian football club Juventus.

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All this changed when Calciopoli hit the club, with Andrea Agnelli being particularly critical of the management for not properly defending the club, which was acquitted and the leagues being regular; it was Andrea Agnelli who built the club back up.

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On 19 May 2010, Andrea Agnelli was elected chairman of the club.

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In regards to sports policy, Andrea Agnelli took a tougher position than that of the previous Juventus management, led by Giovanni Cobolli Gigli and subsequently by Jean-Claude Blanc, in the aftermath of the post-Calciopoli.

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Nonetheless, Andrea Agnelli was the promoter of what was widely labelled "the table of peace" of the 2010s.

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In September 2012, Andrea Agnelli became the Italian member of the European Club Association.

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Andrea Agnelli initially said he would retire his Lega Serie A candidacy if Tavecchio was elected FIGC president.

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On 8 September 2015, Andrea Agnelli was reelected as a member of the ECA executive board.

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Andrea Agnelli said that football is not economically sustainable and expressed his hope that the European Court of Justice would change its regulations.

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In thirteen seasons, Andrea Agnelli won 19 trophies with the first men's team, 10 with the first women's team, and one with the second men's team, which made it the most titled management in Juventus history.

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In 2018, Andrea Agnelli was named Turinese Man of the Year by Turin's Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture, and Artisanship.

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On 27 August 2005, Andrea Agnelli married Emma Winter in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Villar Perosa, Piedmont, at the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

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On 22 April 2017, the couple had a daughter, who was named Livia Selin; her godfather was the incumbent president of UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, with whom Andrea Agnelli later came in contrast regarding the European Super League project.

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Andrea Agnelli said that Ceferin remained his daughter's godfather, and that he continued to be a person of whom he had esteem.

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On 18 March 2017, following the opening of a lawsuit by Giuseppe Pecoraro from the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, Andrea Agnelli was referred by the FIGC's Attorney General along with three other club executives.

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On 20 January 2023, Andrea Agnelli was suspended for two years from holding office in Italian football as punishment for capital gain violations, amid the Plusvalenza scandal, which is related to the capital gains and false accounting, and the reopened Prisma case, which started in November 2021; a preliminary hearing for the Prisma case was scheduled for March 2023.