Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician.
20 Facts About Umberto Agnelli
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Umberto Agnelli was chairman and later honorary chairman of Juventus, the football team long-associated with Fiat and the Agnelli family, and was for a time the president of the Italian Football Federation.
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Umberto Agnelli was a Christian Democracy member of the Senate of the Republic from 1976 to 1979.
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Umberto Agnelli was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, the youngest of seven children.
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Umberto Agnelli graduated in law at the University of Catania.
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Umberto Agnelli was chairman of Fiat France from 1965 to 1980, chief executive officer of Fiat from 1970 to 1976 and its vice-president from 1976 to 1993.
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Umberto Agnelli was chairman of Fiat Auto from 1980 to 1990, and was a member of the International Advisory Board from 1993 to 2004.
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Umberto Agnelli was chairman of Juventus between 1956 and 1961, and was honorary chairman from 1970 to 2004.
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Umberto Agnelli led the club to become the most successful in Italian football.
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From 2003 to 2004, Umberto Agnelli took over as chairman of the Fiat Group from 2003 to 2004.
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Umberto Agnelli was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
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Umberto Agnelli's management was characterized by the signings of important players, such as John Charles and Omar Sivori, who proved to be decisive for the conquest of three Serie A championships and two consecutive Italy Cups from 1958 to 1961.
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Umberto Agnelli had trasformed the club into a modern publicly-listed company with important investment projects.
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Several observers, including former FIGC president Franco Carraro, argue that had Umberto Agnelli been alive, things would have done different, as the club and its directors would have been defended properly, which could have avoided relegation and cleared the club's name much earlier than the Calciopoli trials of the 2010s.
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Politically, the Umberto Agnelli family sought to create a non-ideological, centrist political formation of Atlanticist and pro-European persuasion that sought a modernasing, internationalist capitalism in contrast to the left and opposed to the populist, nationalist, or fascist right.
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Umberto Agnelli took his role seriously, and he held a conference of DC senators in Rome to discuss the renewal of the party; in response, he was admonished.
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Umberto Agnelli's life was beset by an unusual amount of tragedy and bereavement.
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In 1959, Umberto Agnelli married a cousin of Marella Umberto Agnelli, the heiress Donna Antonella Bechi Piaggio, from the well-known business-family of Piaggio that created Vespa, who later married a distant maternal relative of Allegra Caracciolo, Uberto Visconti di Modrone.
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The third son was Giovanni Alberto Umberto Agnelli, who grew up to be the head of the maternal family-firm Piaggio, and was being groomed to succeed at Fiat but died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1997.
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Umberto Agnelli is the first cousin of Agnelli's sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, the wife of Agnelli's brother.