Franco Dal Cin – Wikipedia

Francesco Dal Cin , said Franco (Vittorio Veneto, 1943 ^{[first] [2]} ), he is an Italian entrepreneur and sports manager. He is famous above all for his past between 1976 and 1984 as general manager of Udinese Calcio, who between 1976 and 1979 passed from Serie C to Serie A and in the following years he remained in the top flight. In 1983 he brought the Brazilian champion Zico to Italy surprisingly, who played two years in the Friulian team. Dal Cin was also president of Venice between 2002 and 2005.

after-content-x4 «I had left poor and I remained. But if I reflect on football, I had great satisfaction, my life was worthy of being lived. [3] »

( Franco Dal Cin )

In his youth he was a footballer, but he retired soon due to a nefrite ^[2] . Later he alternated the business of entrepreneur with that of a sports manager. After the fleeting experience at Inter became a provider of services related to the world of sport, organizing events related to football, soccer and billiards ^[4] .

After the fall of the “iron curtain”, it also became an external consultant for market negotiations in Eastern European ^[4] : with his company Sport Trade ^[5] He brought Mychajlyčenko to Sampdoria, Kolyvanov to Foggia, Dobrol’skij at Genoa and Simutenkov in “his” Reggiana. For a short period he was part of the Board of Directors of Dinamo Moscow ^[3] . He also dealt with the trade of television rights, with the purchase of the first two games from Eastern Europe, in 1988, with the images of the Red Stella Red race Belgrade-Milan ^[2] .

He abandoned football after the failure of Venice in 2005, later he moved to live in Udine and began to deal with photovoltaics by opening an office in Milan ^[6] , traveling a lot abroad, between Belgium and Germany. In a 2009 interview with L’Unità he declared that he possessed a football school in Nigeria, directed by his son Michele together with Marshall, a former defender of Reggiana and Genoa ^[3] . He also purchased vast plantations in Senegal cultivated with plants for medical use ^[7] .

His son Michele became president of Conegliano in the nineties; He was subsequently director of Calcio Venice and sports prosecutor. Franco Dal Cin also has another daughter, Mara ^[8] .

Conegliano (1972-1980) [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

As a sports manager he began in 1971 in the newly formed Union C.S. ^[2] , a Chioggia company formed by the fusion of the Clodia with the submarine. The president was the Veneto industrialist of Teofilo Sanson ice cream, together with which he will write important pages in the history of football from Triveneto; Within two years they brought the team to Serie C, who began a quick decline when a few years later the two left ^[9] . In 1972 Sanson also bought Conegliano, who played in Serie D, and from the Cin he became general manager also in this club. With their advent, the nursery was enhanced and within a few years the youth sector became one of the most important in Italy, so much so that it conquered the title of Italian champion with the “Berretti” training in 1976 and in 1978. In addition, Also in 1976, the Juniores team surprised the “Sanson Trophy” (a tournament that was held in Veneto in the 70s with a two -year basis), eliminating Naples, Atalanta, Bayern Munich and beating Olimpia Ljubljana in the final.
At the same time he grew up the performance of the first team: in 1978 he obtained the promotion in the newly formed series C2, and in the following championship he ended in fifth place in the standings, the best placement in the history of football in Conegliano ^[ten]

Udinese (1976-1984) [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In the meantime, Sanson in 1976 had become the president of Udinese and from the Cin followed him, always with the position of general manager, bringing the team within three years to Serie A. However, they maintained the positions in Conegliano who became a sort of Affiliated: At the end of the 1980s season, the players of Conegliano Gerolin, Giorgio Papais, Strappa and Loris Pradella went on to wear the shirt of the bianconeri in Serie A ^[11] .
In 1980 Sanson sold the company and both dedicated themselves completely to Udinese, with whom they were collecting great satisfaction. In 1978 they had the idea of ​​affixing the first brand in the history of football, the writing Sanson on players’ shorts ^[2] , officially kicked off at the time of sponsorships ^[3] . Dal Cin was confirmed general manager also in 1981 following the change of ownership, with Lamberto Mazza della Zanussi, giant of appliances, new owner.

In 1983 he was the architect of the sensational arrival in Udine di Zico ^[2] . He said from the cin: «Thanks to the sponsors we managed to pay for his salary. It was an operation of great effect, we filled the Friuli stadium with 50,000 spectators for more than half of the games. Even around the peninsula we did the exhaustion, it was my greatest personal satisfaction ” ^[twelfth] .
Juventus, Naples and Rome were burned by Dal Cin’s timing, which managed to ensure it for 6 billion lire (of which, however, only 3.6 paid by Udinese: the rest was paid by the external company Grouping Limited , which would have used the image of Zico) ^[13] , through a complex operation that also included the transfer of the player’s image rights. The arrival of the Brazilian champion was the most important market blow in the history of the Friulian clubs ^[14] .
However, at the end of the season, due to some contrasts with the president Mazza, from the Cin he resigned from the assignment ^[twelfth] .

“It was truly a pity that the management of the time had problems and the struggles between the president Mazza and the Cin weakened the team. Dal Cin had an excellent vision of Italian football and projects to build a good team. When he was forced to leave the club we were among the first in the standings but then we were abandoned to ourselves, also including arbitrage problems [twelfth] »

( Zico )

Then when in 1985 the Cavalier Mazza sold Udinese, from the Cin suggested to him to sell it to the Pozzo family instead of Maurizio Zamparini ^[15] , which thus folded on Venice. He would return to collaborate with Udinese after the subsequent experience at Inter, remaining until the late eighties. It was he who suggested to Giampaolo Pozzo to buy Giuseppe Dossena in 1987 ^[16] .

Inter (1984-1985) [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In August 1984 he moved to Inter as sports director, remaining until December 1985 ^[4] . It will be a bitter experience that will never remember from the Cin positive ^[3] , due to an unwanted relationship with Ernesto Pellegrini. He had to say about him: “To the president I proposed to bring Zico to the Nerazzurri, he replied that he already had Liam Brady” ^[2] .

Reggiana (1993-2002) [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 1993 he bought on behalf of the Fantinel family (who later took over Triestina ^[3] ) for about 9 billion lire the majority of Reggiana actions, just promoted in Serie A, immediately presenting the idea and a project for the construction of a new private stadium that was built thanks also to the contribution of sponsors, the Municipality, but above all thanks to the response of the fans who signed multi -year subscriptions ^[17] .

«It is difficult to see in Franco Dal Cin, the master of Reggiana, a galilean of the ball or a romantic Icaro. Rather, remember a picaro, a trafficker of dreams betrayed, this time, by his nose. More than experiments, he made a game of gambling ”

The first stone of the new stadium, to be built in a non -urbanized area on the outskirts of the city, was located on September 25, 1994 and on April 15, 1995 the first official game was played in the plant, against Marcello Lippi’s Juventus, that some week later he would have won the Scudetto. It was the first football stage owned by a club and not of a public administration in Italy and the first plant baptized with the name of a sponsor, in this case the Giglio dairy company, whose name stood on the shirts of the grenade. Funded entirely by private individuals and costing 25 billion lire, the “lily” was built with a series of decidedly futuristic structures for the time, from the stages with the satellite refrobars and television to the closed circuit cameras, passing through the heated benches with lots of phone line. An innovative system also in the field of safety with the turnstiles to the entrances, which were promptly and paradoxically removed. It was also created for a ticket sales system similar to the fan card that would be created in 2009 ^[18] .

In his first year with the Emilians, from Cin he brought Emilia Paulo Futre to Reggio, the Portuguese vice ball of gold 1987 ^[3] , and the goalkeeper Cláudio Taffarel, who at the end of the season would have graduated world champion with Brazil. He also started important contacts in Africa for the purpose of registering promising young Nigerians, so it was that they dressed the grenade, among others, Oliseh, Martins and Makinwa ^[2] . After the relegation of 1995, he had the intuition of entrusting the bench to Carlo Ancelotti, who was back from the role of assistant to Arrigo Sacchi in the national team but had never trained a club team; At the end of the season the new technician brought back to Serie A The Emiliani ^[3] . In 1997 the presidency passed from the Fantinel group to the Reggio entrepreneur Luciano Ferrarini and the bench was entrusted to Mircea Lucescu on the suggestion of Dal Cin ^[17] . But the season ended with relegation and a progressive decline of the club began, mainly determined by the heavy debts contracts for the construction of the stadium. From the Cin he stated that the passive was due to a dispute with the Municipality of Reggio, who did not allow the construction of a shopping center to the stadium area, with which according to him, Reggiana could have arranged with strong liquidity. To deal with the crisis, a large part of the player park was sold ^[19] . In those years he was also the Lega councilor for the Serie B ^[3] .
In 1999 the relegation to Serie C1 arrived among the protests of the fans, who resulted in a public event through the streets of Reggio Emilia on 11 May 2002 in which the change at the helm of the company was loudly asked. The change took place on July 9, 2002 after a long negotiation with the sale of the Granata company to Ernesto Foglia, already owner of the Brescello, who chose Reggiano Chiarino Cimurri as president ^[17] .

Venice (2002-2005) [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 2002, following the sale of Reggiana and the simultaneous purchase of Palermo by Maurizio Zamparini, from Cin he noticed Venice, who had just relegated to Serie B and paid in a disastrous economic situation. He bargained to keep the company afloat, but at the end of the 2004-05 championship, between suspicions and voices of combines (in particular for the Genoa-Venice meeting), after two miraculous salvations the team was relegated to Serie C1. In the meantime from the Cin – who held the positions of President, Sole Director and CEO – Just before the end of the championship he had sold the club to the Ligurian group led by the discussed construction entrepreneur Luigi Gallo; The fans saw the spectrum of bankruptcy in that operation and began to mobilize with events, proposing a rescue project through a Public Company , but it was all useless: on June 22, 2005 the Arancionoverde company was declared bankrupt ^[20] . It was Dal Cin’s last experience as a sports manager, even if in September 2015 his name was associated with a possible purchase of Triestina ^[21] .

On June 5 from the Cin, he released the declarations with which the interceptions that would lead to the Calciopoli scandal, declarations that would subsequently denote, was given to the Neapolitan ministries. In March 2007 he was sentenced to four months of imprisonment together with the president of Genoa Enrico Preziosi and other managers for sports fraud in relation to the Genoa-Venezia match of the 2004-2005 Serie B championship, won by the Genoa for 3-2. For the same affair it was inhibited for five years by the sports court. The sentence was later revoked by the Cassation. In February 2011, the FIGC referred to it by inhibiting it for another 5 years regarding the failure of Venice ^{[7] [20] [22]} . Accused of fraudulent bankruptcy, from the Cin he agreed with the bankruptcy trustee of Venice to compensate the company a figure of over one hundred thousand euros ^[23] .