Francesco Becchetti

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Francesco Becchetti (born August 8, 1966 in Rome ) is an Italian entrepreneur and football manager.

Life

Becchetti is active in the waste and construction industry. He is also President of the English Leyton Orient Football Club . Becchetti received the concession, with its Italian company BEG the river Vjosa in the south of Albania , the hydropower plant Kalivaç to build. In Tirana he founded the TV station Agon Channel . On October 10, 2015, the station had to cease operations due to over-indebtedness.

In the summer of 2014 Beccetti acquired the English fourth division team Leyton Orient Football Club from London-Leyton. Becchetti was banned from the stadium and fined £ 40,000 for six games by the English Football Association in January 2016 for kicking his team's deputy coach Andy Hessenthaler during a game against Portsmouth .

Individual evidence

  1. Agon Channel, rinviato a giudizio in Albania il patron Francesco Becchetti. In: Corriere della Sera. Retrieved May 2, 2016 (it-IT).
  2. Fatjona Mejdini: Becchetti Faces Possible Extradition to Albania. In: Balkan Insight . November 6, 2015, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ Leyton Orient: Barry Hearn sells stake to Francesco Becchetti. In: BBC. July 7, 2014, accessed May 2, 2016 .
  4. ^ Press Association: Leyton Orient president Francesco Becchetti handed six-match stadium ban. In: The Guardian. January 15, 2016, accessed May 2, 2016 .