TURIN. Looking forward in the name of continuity. The mandate of Pietro Garibaldi as president of the Circolo della Stampa – Sporting officially began yesterday, which will end in 2026. He is the successor of Luciano Borghesan (who remains as director), to whom he wanted to dedicate a personal thanks «for the incredible work done in these four years». Confirmed the two vice-presidents Stefano Motta and Andrea Pellissier, who will be joined by the new entries of Paolo Griseri and Federico Calcagno.
Garibaldi, 54, full professor of political economy at the university since 2005 and member of the organizing committee of the International Festival of Economics, has been a member of the Corso Agnelli club for 25 years: “Our true wealth is the more than a thousand members,” he says . Like his predecessor, he wants to dispel the myth of an “exclusive place, an inaccessible ivory tower: ours is a city heritage and we want to open ourselves up to everyone”.
Garibaldi inherits the ATP Finals (the last city edition is scheduled for 2025) and launches a bet to make Turin a tennis capital: «Thanks to unique industrial and financial sponsors, our city has the opportunity to position itself as a point of reference, not only in Italy, on the map of this sport». One of the new president’s missions is to bring an important tournament of international caliber to Turin on a permanent basis: «We have the fields of the training center created for the ATP Finals and an outdoor stadium with a red clay field that has just been renovated: a few clubs in Italy they have our luck».
The imperative for the next four years is not to repeat the slow decline and oblivion that followed the Winter Olympics hosted by Turin in 2006. To do this, we will increasingly focus on young people (“We are the second club nationwide by number of members Federtennis, we want to expand our school”) and on the involvement of students from the nearby university, with new spaces to be dedicated to padel courts.
Meanwhile, in December, after the second edition of the ATP Finals, the Circolo della Stampa – Sporting will host the Serie A finals, which will remain in the city until 2026. The cultural activities will then continue in the direction inaugurated by Luciano Borghesan: after in the summer Set will be back on stage, with Neri Marcoré who has accepted an encore as artistic director.
