Umberto Agnelli
Born	(1934-11-01)1 November 1934 Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	27 May 2004(2004-05-27) (aged 69) Piedmont, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Head of Fiat and Juventus
Spouse	donna Antonella Bechi Piaggio (divorced) donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto
Children	Giovanni Alberto Agnelli Andrea Agnelli Anna Agnelli

Umberto Agnelli (1 November 1934 – 27 May 2004) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician. His brother was Gianni Agnelli.

He served as a CEO of Fiat from 1970–1976^[1] and senator of the Italian Republic, from 1976 to 1979, and was the honorary chairman of the Juventus soccer team, the past president of the Italian Football Association and later chairman of Italian carmaker Fiat from early 2003 until his death from lung cancer aged 69.

Business career[link]

Agnelli was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, the youngest of seven children. His father Edoardo Agnelli died in an air crash when he was aged just one, and his mother perished in a car accident when he was 11. He was chairman of Juventus 1956–61, honorary chairman 1970–2004; chairman, Fiat France 1965–80; chief executive officer, Fiat SpA 1970–76, vice-president 1976–93, chairman, Fiat Auto 1980–90; member, International Advisory Board 1993–2004, chairman 2003–04. Though he was a senior executive in the family company, Fiat, he was sidelined from taking a leadership role by his brother Gianni until the latter's death in 2003. He then took over the Fiat Group, which also controlled several Italian newspapers and publishers, and the Juventus football club, of which he had served as chairman. Umberto Agnelli was in the process of restoring Fiat's balance sheet after the company's balance sheet, market share, and share value were all in decline, when he suddenly died of lung cancer after barely 18 months in control. Despite this, Forbes magazine estimated he was the world's 68th richest man with an approximate net worth of US$5.5 billion.

Personal life[link]

He first married heiress Donna Antonella Bechi Piaggio in 1959, with whom he had three sons. The first, twin boys, died shortly after birth.

The third son Giovanni Alberto Agnelli was groomed to succeed at Fiat but died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1997. Giovanni was survived by his wife Avery Agnelli née Howe and a daughter Virginia Asia Agnelli.

Umberto and Antonella later divorced, and Umberto married Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto in 1974, who is the first cousin of his sister in law Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. They had two children, a son named Andrea born in 1975, and a daughter Anna born in 1977. Andrea then went on to his father's footsteps by becoming chairman of Juventus in 2010.

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External links[link]

• Forbes Rich List entry
• Obituary

Luciano Moggi (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃano ˈmɔddʒi]; born July 10, 1937) is a disgraced former Italian football administrator and convicted fraudster^[1].

He has received two separate sentences for fraud of 1 year and 5 years 4 months. Due to Italy's convoluted legal appeals system he may never serve time in prison. He is banned for life by Italian Footballing authorities, the FIGC. He was the general director of Juventus F.C. from 1994 until May 2006. During that time Juve were highly successful but Moggi resigned at the end of the 2006 after being implicated in the Calciopoli match fixing scandal. The investigation and trial for fraud is ongoing, but Juventus were stripped of their 2005 and 2006 titles, and demoted in Serie B as punishment.

Biography[link]

Moggi was born in Monticiano, in the province of Siena.

He worked as a railway station caretaker until the early 1970s, when he met Italo Allodi, then Juventus' managing director, who appointed him to minor roles at the club.

Before being called as chief managing director by Juventus in 1994, he worked for and collaborated with several teams, such as Torino, Napoli, Roma and Lazio. He has a son Alessandro, who works as an agent for several football players and managers. He is head of GEA World, a consortium of football agents and managers, which the company and Alessandro were ranked the first by volume from 2002 to 2006.^[2] He was nicknamed by Italian journalist Marco Travaglio as "Lucky Luciano", a reference to the notorious gangster.

In 2006 he was the main figure involved in a football scandal, after the publication of several wiretappings in which he suggested and asked for particular referees' names to Pierluigi Pairetto, the former Italian referee nominator. The scandal, which also involved his son, undermined the figure of Moggi, and fueled several inquiries by the judicial courts of Rome and Naples. As a consequence of the scandal, which is still unfolding, the Italian Football Federation president Franco Carraro and the president of the Italian Referee Association both resigned. As for Moggi, after the 2006 season's final match of his team against Reggina, he announced that he would resign from his position and would retire from the world of football altogether^[3][4]:

I don't have either the strength nor the willingness to answer any question. I miss my soul, it has been killed. Tomorrow I'll be resigning, since tonight the football world isn't my world anymore. I'll think only to defend myself from all allegations and wicked actions.

He continues to make observations on the Serie A on the newspaper Libero^[5] and the local television channel Telecapri Sport.

Personal views[link]

Moggi has spoken out against gay footballers, saying that: "A homosexual can't fulfil the job of a footballer. I wouldn't put one under contract and if I discovered I had one, he would fly immediately."^[6]

Honours[link]

During his Napoli administration, he won the following trophies:

• 1 Scudetto
• 1 UEFA Cup
• 1 Italian Supercup

During his Torino administration, he won the following trophies:

• 1 Mitropa Cup
• 1 Italian Cup

During his Juventus administration, he won the following trophies:

• 5 Scudetti (+2 revoked)
• 1 Italian Cup
• 4 Italian Supercup
• 1 Intercontinental Cup
• 1 Champions League
• 1 European Supercup
• 1 UEFA Intertoto Cup

See also[link]

• 2006 Italian football scandal

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jonathan O'Brien, The Sunday Business Post, 16 July 2006, "The Italian Job"
• Jason Burke, The Observer, 30 July 2006, "Paradiso to inferno"

Andrea Agnelli (born 6 December 1975 in Turin) is an Italian businessman and president of Italian football club Juventus F.C..^[1] He is also a board member of FIAT and Exor.

Early life[link]

Agnelli is the son of late Juventus president and senator of the Italian Republic Umberto Agnelli, CEO of Fiat from 1970–1976, and Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, first cousin of Marella Agnelli, born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. Andrea is the last male member of the family to carry the Agnelli name. He studied at St Clare's in Oxford, England and then at Bocconi University in Milan.

Career[link]

After university, Agnelli started his career in the business world with various companies abroad in England and France including Iveco and Auchan Hypermarché. He also spent several years in Switzerland working in marketing and development for Ferrari Idea and Lausanne-based Philip Morris International.

In May 2010 he was appointed President of Juventus by his first cousin John Elkann, becoming the fourth member of the Agnelli family to run the football club after his father, his uncle and his grandfather.^[2] Elkann had come under criticism from Juventus fans for the club's poor results during the 2009-10 season and many die-hard fans saw Agnelli as the "rightful" heir due to his family's long-time association with the club. Despite entering the job during a period when the club was still dealing with the aftermath of the infamous Calciopoli scandal, he is credited with overseeing the club's transition into the new stadium and balancing their finances in wake of the ongoing recession ravaging Italy.^[3][4] One of his first acts as new president was to appoint Sampdoria duo Giuseppe Marotta as Director of Sport and Luigi Delneri as new coach.

On 22 May 2011, Angelli appointed former player Antonio Conte as the new manager of Juventus, replacing Delneri. The same season Juventus won the first scudetto under Agnelli.^[5].

References[link]

Che Fu MNZM is a New Zealand Hip hop/R&B and Reggae recording artist and producer.^[2] Originally one part of the band Supergroove, as a solo artist he has gone on to sell thousands of albums both in New Zealand and internationally, including in Australia and the UK.

History[link]

Fu is one of New Zealand's most successful male vocalists.^{[citation needed]} He began his music career at Western Springs College with a group of friends in forming the Low Down Dirty Blues Band, which went on to change their name to Supergroove.^[2] While a member of Supergroove, Fu went by his birth name, Che Ness.

Supergroove's award-winning debut album Traction went triple platinum in New Zealand. Supergroove struggled with the success of Traction, and soon altered their musical style. Follow-up EP Tractor introduced a heavy rock influence, and although Ness was still a band member, his interest in hip-hop and reggae was running against the evolution of Supergroove. Before recording their second and final album, Backspacer, Supergroove significantly altered their line-up. Ness was one of three casualties and turned his attentions to hip-hop.

One of Fu's early hip-hop shows was billed as "Che-Fu", a take on kung-fu. Although not originally intended as a new name to record under, it stuck. The hyphen seems to come and go - it is used on one of three album covers. Within weeks of leaving Supergroove, Fu was invited to record a single with DJ DLT. The result, Chains, focussed on French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, and was a New Zealand number 1.

In 1998 Fu released his debut solo album 2b S.Pacific with BMG. At the 1997 New Zealand Music Awards he received the single of the year, songwriter of the year and male vocalist of the year awards. He then signed to Sony Music and began work for his next album Navigator released in 2001. He also formed an eight piece live band called The Krates. 2005's Beneath the Radar was led out by singles 2D and Lightwork. He has now released a Best Of album Hi-Score: The Best Of Che-Fu.

Fu is the son of Miriama, and one New Zealand's founding reggae musicians, Unity Pacific (Tigilau Ness).^[2] Tigilau is a full-blooded Niuean who came from the village of Mutalau. Fu is half Māori, half Niuean. He and wife Angela McDonald have a son Loxmyn.^[2] Fu and Angela got married at Uluvehi, Mutalau, Niue on Thursday 28 April 2011, they have 4 sons.

In 2008, Fu teamed up with the Glass Packaging Forum to promote glass recycling with youth. They hosted a competition for 9 to 15 year olds to write rap lyrics to encourage recycling, and the winner would record their lyrics with Fu.^[3]

Awards[link]

• 1997 New Zealand Music Awards - Winner of "Single of the Year", "Songwriter of the Year", and "Male Vocalist of the Year".^[2]
• 2002 New Zealand Music Awards - Winner of "Top Male Vocalist", "R&B and Hip-Hop", "People's Choice Award", "Single of the Year" and "Album of the Year".
• 2009 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit ^[2]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

With Supergroove

• Traction (1994)
• Postage - The Best Of (2003)

Solo

• 2b S.Pacific (1998)
• Navigator (2001)
• Beneath the Radar (2005)
• Hi-Score - The Best Of Che Fu (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Che Fu The Musician
• MusicBrainz Page