Adriano Galliani

Adriano Galliani (2016)

Adriano Galliani (born July 30, 1944 in Monza ) is an Italian entrepreneur and football official .

After completing his training as a qualified geometer , Galliani worked for the city of Monza for eight years. In 1975 he founded Elettronica Industriale , which specializes in the manufacture of devices for receiving TV signals. Through his company he came into contact in 1979 with the businessman Silvio Berlusconi , with whom he founded the television channel Canale 5 .

In 1986 Adriano Galliani became managing director of the AC Milan football club, which had just been acquired by Berlusconi, and soon after became vice president. In 2002 he became president of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti , a sub-organization of the Italian football association Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio , which is the host of the national championship. His dual function as a high official of AC Milan and the Italian league repeatedly caused polemics over alleged conflicts of interest.

When, in the course of the investigation into the football scandal in 2006 , Galliani was also investigated, he resigned from his position as league president on June 22, 2006. A court sentenced him to a nine-month ban, and the next instance reduced the sentence to five months and a fine. In 2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Italian Football .

Web links

Commons : Adriano Galliani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corriere.it - ​​Mediaset compra Elettronica Industriale da Galliani
2. ^ Spiegel.de - League President Galliani resigns
3. ↑ figc.it - ​​Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.