ROME (ITALPRESS) – Pro Recco has new ownership. Concluded, in fact, the process that allows the continuation of the top and youth competitive activities of the most titled water polo club in the world among team sports. This was announced by OrleanInvest and Gabriele Volpi. After the formalization of the transfer of the sports title to the newco formed in the first days of last August, according to the procedure provided for the handover, the parties have concluded the agreement that provides for the free transfer of the trademarks and the historical name “Pro Recco,” in the context of the entry of the Behring family in the capital of the newco. Therefore, the newcoassumes the name “Pro Recco Waterpolo,” withamounting administrator Maurizio Felugo, former president of ProRecco by designation of Volpi himself and Orlean Invest. The Orlean Invest Group and its Chairman Gabriele Volpi, since the announcement of the decision not to continue the sporting activity, have always been clear, in the search for chipsotesse to take charge of the future of the sports club, the essential requirements of solidity, seriousness and genuine passion declared to be proposed to take charge of the continuation.Elementi all found in the new ownership team emanageriale, which is the best possible choice at the global level to ensure a successful future for the team.With the utmost confidentiality, speed and determination, the technical and bureaucratic steps necessary to allow Pro Recco Waterpolo to continue the club’s sporting tradition were carried out, assigning the newco the right to participate in the next Serie A1 season and the Euro Cup, with the name change to “Pro Recco” ratified by the Italian Swimming Federation on September 24. “I express the deepest satisfaction for the successful conclusion of the negotiation with the Behring family, which I am convinced will be able to guarantee the continuity of successes that Pro Recco has been able to boast during my 20 years of management,” said Volpi. “For me, born in Recco and a Recco native in the soul, it constituted a point of honor to ensure a bright future for the team in which I played as a boy and which I have admired since the days of the legendary Scudetto won with six boys from our country in the water out of seven. My passion and affection for Pro Recco have been all-encompassing and have constituted one of the joys of my life, but for some years I had come to the conclusion that the long-term future of the team required a step back by yours truly.” “For years, therefore, I had been urging my staff, starting with President Maurizio Felugo, for them to identify entrepreneurial figures capable of taking over my management, guaranteeing economic availability, commitment and managerial characteristics worthy of Pro Recco. – continued Volpi – Over time, with the management of Orlean Invest, we realized that only the official announcement of the conclusion of my involvement in competitive activities would have solicited those who were really interested to come forward. So it has been, in spite of fanciful and sometimes offensive readings, not so much against my person, in this case the bitterness is there, but it is passing, rather of the management and world-class level assured to Pro Recco during the years in which I have been personally involved with the team. To say nothing of the announced commitment, which I reiterate here, in philanthropic activities to benefit the Recco community in the near future. As I declared in July,” he concluded, “the time has come for the club to walk on its own two feet, and the arrival of the Behring family, to whom I wish the best entrepreneurial and sporting successes, allows me to continue rooting for Pro Recco with the serenity of having entrusted it in the best possible hands.”Bringing to fruition such an ambitious operation for the future of the club was only possible thanks to the worldwide recognition to which the Volpi ownership has brought Pro Recco, in competitive but also managerial terms, giving luster by direct reflection to the Ligurian town and its community,” Luca Gratteri finally emphasized, sole director ofPro Recco Nuoto e Pallanuoto – If the incredible sequence of successes of the Volpi era had not been realized, thanks to thepassion of the chairman and the direct economic commitment, for tens of millions of euros, for the exclusive benefit of the team, there could not have been a future that lived up to the history and the triumphs of the club. Orlean Invest and Gabriele Volpi – he concluded – have ensured the management of Pro Recco not only economic soundness but also strict professional and managerial principles, which have proved to be a fundamental asset in the delicate transition phase that today finds its best and happiest conclusion.”- Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
