Adriano Galliani is an Italian businessman who is one of the most important figures in modern Italian football. This year he will be 73 years old, but he still does not intend to retire. Adriano Galliani has been Milan vice president and sports director for more than thirty years.
Carier start
Adriano Galliani was born on July 30, 1944 in an Italian city called Monza. There he graduated and began working in the local municipality. Quite quickly, he began to demonstrate his leadership talents and, eight years after starting work in the Galliani municipality, ran for mayor of the city. Failure did not prevent Adriano from developing - after a while he acquired a small enterprise specializing in the production of telecommunication equipment. Galliani made this company a real market leader - it was she who was the supplier of equipment for the country's leading television channels. Gradually, the businessman became the fourth most influential person in the field of telecommunications in all of Italy - it was then that his work with Silvio Berlusconi began, which then resulted in a long-term leadership in Milan. And even now, when Berlusconi left the club, Adriano Galliani continues to work there.
Work with Berlusconi
Absolutely everyone heard about Berlusconi - for a long time he was the Prime Minister of Italy. In 1979, Berlusconi met Adriano Galliani, whose photographs appeared in many business publications. In those days, the future prime minister owned the local television channel, and together with Galliani they were able to found one of the largest Italian television channels - Canale 5.
Galliani and Milan
Seven years after Galliani began working with Berlusconi, the latter bought the football club Milan, making Adriano vice president. The Italian club, under the leadership of these two businessmen, has become prosperous and reached the highest level in its history, winning many trophies, including international ones. However, already in 2002, the first major scandal involving Galliani occurred. The fact is that he participated in the election for the presidency of the national professional league and won, but did not leave the post of vice president of Milan. Naturally, this caused dissatisfaction of many people in the field of sports, since there was a conflict of interests. As a result, Galliani stayed in this position for only four years, and in 2006 left her - in Italy then a series of scandals began due to match-fixing. At the same time, he did not take the blame - on the contrary, he denied all the charges and declared himself completely innocent. One way or another, after disqualification, he did not have the right to conduct any sports affairs. This did not end there - a year later they again opened a case against Galliani: it was suspected that he was evading payment of taxes on the income of his club. Doubts were raised about the prices of the players who “Milan” exchanged with “Inter” from 1999 to 2003, as they looked too high for those times. However, in this case, the case was considered for one year, after which all charges were dropped from Galliani. Adriano remains one of the most important members of the Milan government to this day, however, he already ceased to be vice president of the club when Berlusconi sold Milan to Chinese investors. Galliani remained in the position of sports director, but it is not yet known what will happen when the club’s sale process is completed. Perhaps he will retain his position in the club, but there is a possibility that Chinese investors will want to carry out a complete restructuring, and for many decades of work here will not matter.
Personal life
As for the personal life of Galliani, here he showed himself no less actively. For a long time he was married to Daniel Rosati, an Italian model, but divorced her in 1999. Over the years of marriage, Adriano Galliani and his wife got three children. In 2004, five years after breaking up with Daniela, Galliani remarried, this time Malika El-Hassasi, with whom he remains to this day, that is, their marriage has been more than ten years old.