However, an interesting event has recently taken place in Ternana’s life. From now on, players, coaching staff and all club staff are subordinates of a 23-year-old woman who has no experience in football. Her name Claudia Ritzo and she is the heir to Grupo Villa Claudia – a conglomerate whose main activity is concentrated in the health sector.
Ternana Claudia was appointed to her father, Jan Luigi Ritzo-a new majority shareholder of the club and the owner of which “red-green” hope in the near future to return to the highest divisional professional Italian football, and not as it was in the next time, and not in the past.
Officially, the new President of Ternana has announced the appointment of Claudia Ritzso on September 15. In Komunik, it was emphasized that Claudia would become the first woman in this responsible position in the entire hundred years of the club history. In addition, Ternan hopes that the arrival of new owners will mark the “beginning of renewal and revival” for “red-green”.
“It is a great honor for me to embrace the post of the club’s president with such a glorious story as Ternana, just in the year of his century,” said Claudia Ritzo. “Our goal is to build a strong, modern and transparent project, which will be people and sports achievements. We will work with determination to restore the enthusiasm and pride of all fans of “red-green”. I want to be a woman of business, not words. I hope to be an example for many women in sports and in life. Today I feel a lot of emotions; It is honor and great responsibility. My family is here because they have a goal, but my mission is to support this team. ”
FC Ternana Claudia Ritzo’s arrival on the post of Ternana President is really a very noticeable event in Italian club football, even though now “red-green” is in the third in the rank of division-series C. Only Alessandro Rudger, who became the President of the Atlanta in 2008, remains ahead of her, when he was only 21 years old (spent only more than two years in office).
Despite his young age, the new Ternana president had already had experience in a management position. Before coming to football, she managed a factory for the production of olive oil, which is located in Sicily and is her family business.
“My primary task is to create a strong connection between the team and the city. We are going to restore the online campaign for the sale of subscriptions,” said Claudia Ritzo.
And in these words, in fact, the whole truth of the emergence of the Ritzo family headed by a modest Ternana is hidden. Over the past four years, “red-green” has already changed four owners, and the previous ones-the D’Alesandro family-lasted only one season, which was quite scandalous in view of the sports factor.
The fact is that during the season-2024/25 Ternan under the guidance of a young specialist Injacian Abba, a famous ex-defenseist Milan and Italy, the country champion of 2011 and the Vice-Champion of Europe 2012-was among the leaders of the group in the series of S. Abate. Not only fans, but first and foremost players of the first team were openly outraged against this. D’Alesandro had to “give the back” and turn the abate, but after a couple of months, Ternana President still lost his coach, calling in his place another known footballer – Fabio Liverani, who remains at the helm of the first team to this day.
In the sidelines, they said that the abate was paid not through sports results, but because of ignoring the 20-year-old forward of Matthew D’Alesandro-the son of ex-presidential president. He came to the club in the summer of 2024, along with the new owners, from the youth team of Lazio, but never got the desired-the opportunity to play at a professional level.
Interestingly, Matthew d’Alesandro also did not receive playing practice, and his father and uncle soon actually escaped from the club’s management, accumulating a bunch of debts at the end of the season and making a situation in managing “red-green” pathogen. Thornana made her second place in the playoffs for the right to rise in series B, but in the matches of the final stage she still lost the Pescari (0: 1, 1: 0, 3: 2-for a penalty).
In the summer of this year, local authorities, in the person of the mayor of Terni Stefano Bandekki, have an emergency search for a new owner for Ternana. It was not possible to negotiate with potential foreign buyers, because of which literally at the last moment the club went into the property of the Ritzo family, and even in the official communique, it was emphasized how important to the “red-green” this change of owners was: additional penalties, up to the deprivation of points in the current season. ”
Interestingly, Stefano Bandekki in the past himself was the owner of Ternana, and not without success. With him, the head coach of “Red-Green” was appointed well-known Shakhtar Kristiano Lucarlli fans, who, as a result of the 2020/21 season, was able to return the Turnone to series B, where the team spent three years, with two of them under the leadership of Lucarelli. When Bandekki was elected mayor of thorny, he sold the club to the d’Alesandro brothers …
However, let us return to the interests of the Ritzo family, which became the new Ternana owners. Together with the club control, the new owners also received Stadium SPA, which is a club’s strategic partner in infrastructure development. The key question here is the Libero Liberate Stadium, owned by the authorities of Terney. The latter managed to draw a contract with the former Ternana owners for the reconstruction of the stadium, with which the construction of a new clinic is planned, which is of great interest for the Gruppo Villa Claudia – the company of the Ritzo family.
The result of the reconstruction in which the new owners have undertaken to invest 14 million euros will be a team of opportunity to perform in the modern arena, and the Ritzo family-another important business object for their company, which is engaged in the provision of health care services, since the clinic will be used not only in favor of Ternana, but also to meet the needs of the local population. And it is extremely important for Ritzso that the construction of the structure will not take years, everything has long been approved, allowed and designed.
FC Ternana However, these are not all interesting events related to the transition of ownership to Ternan. At the presentation of Claudia Rizzo as a new president of “Red-Green” appeared a disgraced ex-owner of Sampdori Massimo Ferrero. Currently, a 74-year-old film producer and businessman who was forced to leave the Genoese club against the backdrop of allegations of financial fraud (however, not related to the football club), working on a radio, owned by Stefano Bandekki.
In the Italian media, it is suggested that Ferrero is a kind of “caretaker” from Bandecca in a Ternana agreement. Formally, Massimo called the club sports consultant, but what specifically the experienced manager will do is still unknown …
Well, the more interesting it will be the results of Ternana this season. While the Livrani team boasts a fairly mediocre start, but at the distance it will understand whether the trainer from the magic Claudia Ritzo will receive the necessary support, which will help to improve and strengthen the team to really fight for entering the series in this season, whether the new owners will be limited to the expeditration.
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