Urbano Cairo
Urbano Cairo is an Italian entrepreneur and publisher, chairman of Torino Football Club and head of RCS MediaGroup, which publishes, among other titles, La Gazzetta dello Sport.1,2
Speaking on 4 October 2026 at the Turin Sport Festival alongside high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi, he recalled that as a child he wanted to become a footballer, a dream also encouraged by his father, before choosing a career as an entrepreneur at the start of university; he described his rise at RCS, carried out alone against major Italian business groups, as his own «Olympic gold».1
On the same occasion he said: «I'm lucky to do work I enjoy, I like publishing and football too, a bit less when people protest against me, but it doesn't matter».2
Chronology
- — At Villa Claretta the design of the Grande Torino Museum at the Filadelfia was presented, signed by architect Marco Bo, with an estimated cost of over seven million euros. → Toro News Toro News