Covid takes away Marco Bogarelli, the king of TV rights

Sometimes what happens exceeds the imagination, even of the most daring and visionary: so close to the Lega Serie A assembly, Marco Bogarelli – the most powerful man in football on TV – he died for Covid to the hospital San Raffaele of Milan, where he had been hospitalized for ten days.

Farewell to Marco Bogarelli, the most powerful man in TV rights

It would have been a bilateral interstitial pneumonia, caused by the disease and against which, although still young, Bogarelli he failed to get the better of him and succumbed at the age of 64 to a sneaky and creeping enemy.

For those who have no memory or knowledge of his business role, Marco Bogarelli he was the most influential character in the world of television rights he was former president of Infront Italy, had linked his career as a manager to the world of telecommunications.

Marco Bogarelli’s career

Graduated from Bocconi, in the nineties Bogarelli he founded the Media Partners then integrated into Infront, becoming president of the Italian section and stirring up a market that mobilized an industry, created an important economy. A position, that of president, which he held until 2015, the year in which Infront was sold to the Chinese by Wanda: then the manager moved on to the strategic development of Wanda Sports.

In addition to the successes, suspicious cases and investigations by the Milanese prosecutor who accused him of having piloted the auctions of television rights must also be recorded. In the end, the Review Court ruled that there was no criminal association, not recognizing offenses of a criminal nature.

The latest assignments at Wanda Sports in Bogarelli

Even when it was the era of Wanda, Bogarelli he maintained a decisive role in the world of football rights, even in more recent times. In short, until the end. Until the meeting with the Covid.

VIRGILIO SPORT | 16-03-2021 14:45

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