In the Aula Magna of the University of Milan Bicocca there were students, curious, fans and colleagues: the president of Inter graduated in marketing and global markets
Beppe Child with a ball in his hand and behind an old TV broadcasting the 1966 Italy-corea unfortunate, first game seen at nine years: Giuseppe Marotta, a new master’s doctor in marketing and global markets, has chosen to tell himself to the students and professors of Bicocca starting from a curious and iconic photo, reconstructed with artificial intelligence by the creatives of his club. After all, this journey of the President of Inter was born there, in the bedroom of a building in Varese wide open in front of the legendary Ossola stadium. In academic toga, surrounded by the friends of a lifetime and the high representatives of his club, Marotta thus added a Honoris cause degree, conferred by the University of Milan Bicocca, to a curriculum so long that it is almost difficult to get to the bottom. “This recognition is unique and unforgettable, mine is a story of simplicity marked by passion, I dedicate it to all my presidents and all the workers who collaborated with me-he said during the celebration-. Other way ”. From there, immediate, the transition to current affairs, with words that seem to speak to Chivu’s team: “It is important that in sport we want to come first, it is not arrogance but ambition. Many colleagues do not say it, yes: I have always wanted to arrive first. But the perseverance also counts: read the Champions League final achieved with Inter well, it still means having achieved a great result, but in Italy there is no culture of the defeat …”
the event
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In the magna class of the Milanese university there were students, curious, fans and scattered colleagues: from Adriano Galliani to Ariedo Braida, from Giovanni Carnevali to Guido Borghi, the former president of Varese and first manager with whom Marotta started a long crossing almost 50 years now. And again the architect and large Nerazzurri fan Stefano Boeri, the CEO of the Lega Serie to Luigi De Siervo, the DG of Atalanta Umberto Marino, the commissioner of Milan Bruno Megale, the president of CSI Vittorio Bosio, the councilor for sport of the Municipality of Milan Martina Riva, the undersecretary of the Presidency of the Lombardy Region Raffaele Cattaneo and the former minister Lorenzo Guerini. To represent the Nerazzurri club, however, Katherine Ralph, manager of Oaktree who sits on the board of directors, the Chief of Staff Massimiliano Catanese, the head of the medical staff Piero Volpi, the Chief Financial Officer Andrea Accinelli and the lawyer of the company Angelo Capellini. DS Piero Ausilio and Deputy Dario Baccin remained, however, in Appiano near the team leaving for Cagliari: widely justified absent. After the introduction of the outgoing rector Giovanna Iannantuoni, the Laudatio di Lucia Visconti Parisio, delegate of the rector for university sport: “With this recognition, we intend not only to honor professional merits, but also the role played in promoting integrity, commitment and social responsibility values through sport”, explained the professor. A buzz and an applause of the public when Visconti Parisio herself, in remembering Marotta’s many successes, also added the four Champions League finals (all lost) in the cauldron from his teams: the self -deprecating smile of the Nerazzurri president said everything, even the defeats brought him to this solemn room.
graduation
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In front of his brother Salvatore and the two excited children, Giovanni and Elena, Marotta then held his lectio magistralis entitled “A field, two games: football and my story” in which he has analyzed, through an autobiographical path, the transformations of Italian and European football in recent decades and the challenges that the future will reserve for this game that has become industry. “I remember when I saw my Varese beat Juve 5-0 as a gruesome, today it would be an incredible news. I started like this, with President Borghi, when the model was patronage and I now came to talk about algorithms and artificial intelligence,” explained the Nerazzurri president. In detail of the transformation of all the clubs in a joint stock company, of the Bosman law and thus forward large and small changes, up to the slap of the Superlega and the times of lean cows of our football, in which the player trading has become a necessity. Next, he listed all the steps of this career: Varese, Monza, Como, Ravenna, Venice, Atalanta, Samp, Juventus and Inter, “climbing” up to the presidency with the arrival of Oaktree. In this particular historical moment, while the City Council lives Campali Campali made of ambushes and hope, the new San Siro theme entered the Bicocca. “We need a new and modern stadium: we and Milan guarantee transparency, we hope that this problem will be overcome these days,” concluded Marotta. The room has applauded.
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