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'''Giampaolo Pozzo''' ([[Udine]], [[21 May]] [[1941]]) is the owner of the club [[Udinese Calcio]].
'''Giampaolo Pozzo''' ([[Udine]], [[21 May]] [[1941]]) is the owner of the club [[Udinese Calcio]].



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Giampaolo Pozzo (Udine, 21 May 1941) is the owner of the club Udinese Calcio.


Beginning the adventure of Pozzo with Udinese

Pozzo buy Udinese Calcio in July 1986,where On July 28 the Udinese is involved in a betting scandal, the company is behind in Serie b , after nine penalty points in the championship in 1986/1987, in practice an early relegation .

Pozzo buy finest players while attempting to salvage; arrive in Udine Francesco Graziani, Fulvio Collovà Bertoni and Argentine. Udinese closing back the championship to 15 points, but without a nine-point penalty would have been saved.

After the troubled season 1987/1988, in the summer of 1988 Pozzo engages Sonetti as coach of the team with De Vitis, Minaudo, Angelo Orlando, Lucci, Antonio Paganin, Garella, Zennoni, Catalan and Branca. The third with him Udinese arrives back in Serie A.

The abandonment of the post of president of the club

The following year he returned to Udinese in B, but what is worse, after the world cup of 1990 the case Udinese, in fact, penalizes disciplinary team of four points for a call from the chairman of Pozzo Lazio Calleri on the eve of the match between the two teams. Pozzo defends himself strenuously but in vain, because the inhibition is imposed for five years to fill positions. For him too, since then no longer accept the post of President of the Udinese Calcio shall be limited to the owner of the team Friulana


The Miracle of Pozzo

in 1994/1995 is the last year of Serie b to Udinese ,from that moment becomes the Udinese perhaps the true miracle of the Italian Football because the conquest Udinese well qualified to 8 Uefa Cup, a Intertoto Cup, a 3rd place in the 1997/1998 season under the guidance Alberto Zaccheroni and the 4th place in the 2004/2005 season with Luciano Spalletti with the resulting historic qualification, prior to preliminary Champions League and beating the Sporting Lisbon to the group stage of the most prestigious tournament in Europe, all this in just 14 years

Pozzo and inspiring model

Pozzo became the king of "capital gains", with its policy and observers, he discovers the world of football paid little talent, it brings Italy to play in finding real samples, the names are from [[Nestor Sensini] ] a Oliver Bierhoff by Marcio Amoroso a Vincenzo Iaquinta by David Pizarro in Martin Jørgensen until you get to the various Sulley Muntari Fabio Quagliarella, Antonio Di Natale, Felipe Dias da Silva dal Belo, Christian Zapata Gökhan Inler and Alexis Sánchez; players from more areas strong teams in the world, bringing Udinese to be a truly inspiring model for the entire Italian football

scene Numerous companies have equipment for woodworking, the Casals in Barcelona and Freud (Frese Udine) with offices also in U.S., Canada, Russia, United Kingdom and China.

Pozzo is the second president in the league have lived longer in a league team, the first is Silvio Berlusconi (but only 4 months away from the well), this is his 23rd year of presidency.

In season 2007-2008 he was elected best president of the Serie A.

Start the adventure in Udine Basketball Amatori

After the retrocession of Pallacanestro Amatori Udine, known by all as Snaidero Udine Pozzo do not lose heart and Accor to help his friend and majority shareholder of American society Snaidero Edy, which in the days had earlier intention to sell the company, but thanks to Pozzo and some entrepreneurs friulani the Snaidero is safe, and can restart playing from the championship A2 Basketball League