In a sudden jolt, Andrea Agnelli is no longer the president of Juventus, and the board’s resignation on Monday ended his 12-year reign at the helm of the Turin-based giants.
His cousin John Elkann quickly replaced him with one of his closest associates, Gianluca Ferrero, a man we know very little about.
Yesterday we published the resume of the new president published by Exor, but to know more about his personality and traits, we must resort to the words of one of his closest friends.
Pietro Garibaldi is a professor of political economy at the University of Turin and apparently knows a thing or two about his good friend Ferrero.
The professor insists that Ferrero is the right man for Juventus, although he paints him as a calm and collective person, but admits that his friend is not specialized in the sporting aspect.
“Gianluca is very rigorous and reserved, austere, but with a subtle subalpine irony,” Garibaldo said in an interview with Tuttosport via JuventusNews24.
“Obviously I was very happy for him and also for the choice that Juventus made. I had heard of him the day before, but he had told me nothing, just like a true Savoyard.
“He is not a man of the field, but his top-level professionalism will allow him to master the complexity of the situation. He will bring his peace of mind to Juve, and he will contemplate every decision he makes for several days.
“We are talking about a cautious and attentive person who inherited the absolute rigor of his father, one of the city’s historical accountants, who unfortunately passed away this summer.
“Obviously, it will not be a president who deals with the sporting aspects.”
