Loria may refer to:

• Loria (TV), a town in the province of Treviso, northern Italy
• Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications

• Achille Loria, Italian Jewish economist and sociologist
• A. J. Loria, American pianist and New Orleans jazz performer
• Christopher Loria, American astronaut
• David Loria, Kazakh football goalkeeper
• Frank Loria, American football player
• Giorgi Loria, Georgian footballer
• Jeffrey Loria, art dealer and baseball club owner
• Simone Loria, Italian football (soccer) player

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Giorgi Loria (born 27 January 1986) is Georgian football player. He is a goalkeeper and currently plays for Dinamo Tbilisi in Georgia. His height is 196 cm and he weighs 85 kg. He also plays for the national team of Georgia.

Due to bad shape of Giorgi Lomaia, Loria played the first two matches of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA).

Honours[link]

• Georgian Cup: 2009

External links[link]

• (German) Player page on transfermarkt.de
• Giorgi Loria – FIFA competition record
• Giorgi Loria at National-Football-Teams.com

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Jeffrey H. Loria (born November 20, 1940^[1]) is an art dealer and the owner of the Miami Marlins. Raised in Manhattan, Loria took an early interest in baseball, attending his first New York Yankees game in the late 1940s. Loria attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School^[2] and Yale University, where he initially took pre-med courses. With a requirement to take a history class, Loria chose art history.

After college, he worked in a newly-established art-buying program for Sears, launched with the help of actor Vincent Price. In 1965, at the age of 24, he opened his private art dealing business, Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., on Manhattan's Upper East Side and wrote a book, Collecting Original Art. He specializes in 20th century masters. His collection includes works by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore. Loria graduated from Columbia Business School in 1968 and published his second book, What's It All About Charlie Brown?, a look at life through the Peanuts comic strip (co-written with Pat K. Lynch).

Montreal Expos[link]

In 1989, Loria purchased the Oklahoma City 89ers, then a Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. The team won the American Association championship in 1992. Loria sold the team in 1993 and began looking to buy a Major League team. Loria lost out to Peter Angelos in his bid to purchase the Baltimore Orioles in 1994. On December 9, 1999, he bought a 24 percent stake in the Montreal Expos for $18 million CAD (approximately $12 million USD) and became the managing general partner. When a series of cash calls went unanswered, Loria ended up with 94 percent of the team. He headed an ownership group that included the city of Montreal and Stephen Bronfman, son of founding owner Charles Bronfman.

One of Loria's first acts was to reiterate demands for a new park for the Expos to replace Olympic Stadium, of which he bluntly said, "We cannot stay here." He lost a considerable amount of goodwill with Expos fans when the team was not able to reach an agreement for television and English-speaking radio coverage during the 2000 season, as the Expos tried to increase their revenue from broadcast rights. He also sought more public funding for a planned downtown ballpark, Labatt Park. However, the provincial and municipal governments balked at committing more money to the project. Premier Lucien Bouchard said that he couldn't support using taxpayer dollars to build ballparks when the province was being forced to shut down hospitals. Additionally, Bouchard didn't like that Olympic Stadium still hadn't been paid for 25 years after being built^[3] (and wouldn't be paid for, as it turned out, until 2006).

Controversial Sale of the Expos[link]

In 2002, as part of an orchestrated move with Bud Selig and then-Marlins owner John W. Henry, Loria sold the Expos to "Expos Baseball, LP," a partnership of the other 29 major league clubs, for $120 million. In effect, the Expos were sold to the commissioner's office. Henry then sold the Marlins to Loria for $158.5 million, including a $38.5 million no-interest loan from MLB. The deal was approved by the other owners before Loria and Henry even signed a contract, and paved the way for Henry to buy the Boston Red Sox.^[4] Loria moved the Expos' entire front office staff, on-field staff, office equipment and computer equipment to Florida.^[5] MLB's plans to contract the Expos and Minnesota Twins failed, though, as the Twins were compelled through legal action to fulfill the terms of their lease at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

Loria's partners in the Expos ownership consortium filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit against Loria and Major League Baseball, but it eventually went to arbitration, with the arbitration panel finding in favor of Loria.^[6] The Expos were ultimately transferred to Washington, D.C. as the Nationals. While the move was welcomed by baseball fans in Washington, it has led to many bitter feelings among Montreal - as well as Canadian - baseball fans. Many speculate that Loria's original purpose was never to keep the Expos in Montreal.^[7]

The feelings among some Canadian baseball fans are so strong that when Loria chose Veterans day to announce his team's new name and stadium, Richard Griffin, a well-known Canadian baseball columnist wrote:

It’s ironic that Loria and the Marlins held their celebration in Miami on Remembrance Day [the Canadian equivalent of Veterans Day] because there’s a generation of fans north of the border that will never forget [about the how Loria's actions led to the Expos leaving town]. ^[8]

Miami (formerly Florida) Marlins[link]

In 2003, the Marlins won their second World Series. Loria designed the 3½ ounce championship rings that contain 228 white diamonds, 13 rubies and one teal diamond.

Today the current value for the Florida Marlins would be worth around $277 million. As of May 12, 2009, the Marlins are 569-564 under Loria.^[9] On November 11, 2011, the Florida Marlins officially rebranded themselves the Miami Marlins with a new logo, uniform, and color scheme.^[10]

Marlins Park[link]

The franchise, which previously paid rent at Sun Life Stadium, had been trying for years to finance a new retractable roof ballpark. The City of Miami and Miami-Dade County both voted to approve construction of a new baseball stadium for the Marlins. It is located in the area formerly occupied by the Miami Orange Bowl football stadium. Construction was completed by opening day 2012. Before the stadium deal was in place, Loria shed star players to pare down payroll to among baseball's lowest in 2005, and was given permission to explore options for relocating. The team then worked with the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County, in a public/private partnership, to build the 37,000 seat ballpark.^[11]

A deal with the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County was eventually approved and the Marlins agreed to contribute $155 million towards the construction of a new retractable roof stadium. They were also made responsible for any cost overruns and the stadium is set to be complete in the Little Havana section of Miami in early 2012. The first Major League Baseball game in the new stadium was against the 2011 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals on April 4, 2012.

Personal life[link]

Loria, who still runs his art dealership, is a member of the board of directors of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York. He formerly served on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America. Loria, who splits time between homes in New York and South Florida, supports hospitals, educational institutions and museums around the world with charitable contributions.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marlins Baseball
• Forbes article on Loria
• Time for Expos to leave Montreal
• Loria Buys Marlins, Fires 60
• Loria talked out of firing Girardi
• Loria about to repeat history
• Marlins Fire Girardi, Loria not in attendance
• Major Gift to Fund New Home for History of Art Center at Yale University

Simone Loria (born 28 October 1976 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian football defender currently played with Bologna.

Career[link]

Loria is known for having scored a spectacular bicycle kick from the edge of the penalty area against Chievo while playing for Atalanta.^{[citation needed]}

He began his career at Juventus, club giant of his hometown Turin. After graduation from youth teams, he spent 5 seasons in Serie C1 and Serie C2. In mid-2002, he was signed by Cagliari of Serie B. He quickly became a regular starter and contributed to the team's promotion to Serie A in summer 2004. In his first Serie A season, he played 20 matches. At the end of season, he joined Atalanta, a club which had just been relegated to Serie B. He won the Serie B championship with the club and played in Serie A again.

In July 2007, he signed a 4-year contract with Siena.^[1]

Roma[link]

Loria completed a transfer to Roma from Siena along with his teammate Artur Moraes on 25 June 2008^[2] in an exchange deal which saw Roma goalkeeper Gianluca Curci move to Siena in a co-ownership deal and Roma midfielder Ahmed Barusso move on loan to the Tuscan based club. Daniele Galloppa, owned by both Roma & Siena, also became an exclusively Siena player as a part of the deal. He signed a 3-year deal and he was valued €2.8 million.

After disappointing performances, Loria was loaned to Torino which recently sold Cesare Natali on 6 July 2009.^[3] During 2010–11 Serie A Loria spent most of his time on the bench or even the stands until the classic match against Inter. Substituting Jérémy Menez in the second half he scored the (temporary) 4-3, his second goal for Roma.^[4]

Bologna[link]

He moved to Bologna in July. He scored his first goal for Bologna on October 30, against Atalanta. Bologna won 3:1.

Honours[link]

• Serie B: 2006

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at Football.it (Italian)