"to maintain its standards as an establishment exclusively for gentlemen; brief exceptions were made for the visits by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 and 2016. White's is a member of the Association of London Clubs. In January 2018, calling themselves 'Women in Whites', women protesters infiltrated the club to highlight its single-sex policy, one managing to gain entry by pretending to be a man. The club was originally established at 4 Chesterfield Street, off Curzon Street in Mayfair, in 1693 by an Italian immigrant named Francesco Bianco as a hot chocolate emporium under the name ""Mrs. White's Chocolate House"". Tickets"
"Chelsea since 1990 and own a villa on Lipari, an island off the coast of Sicily. The island is popular with oligarchs, celebrities, and Italian politicians. Massimo Carello Massimo Carello (born 1948, Turin) is an Italian businessman with over 40 years of international senior management and director-level experience. In 1980, Carello became Managing Director of The Carello Group, a lighting business founded in Turin in 1876 by his great-grandfather. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fiat UK and Ireland in 1990, a position he held until 2001. He also acted as CEO of Diners Club UK from 2001 to"
"in England; this was likely the first Italian club to participate in football. Their original colours were red and black stripes. The second club, whose name meant ""Turin Nobles"", bore the name of noble because it contained the Duke of the Abruzzi and Alfonso Ferrero di Ventimiglia (who would later become a president of FIGC). The colours of Nobili Torino were amber and black stripes. The two merged in 1891 to form Internazionale Torino, taking on the colours of Nobili. Along with Genoa and two other Torinese clubs which had sprung up since Internazionale's founding, FBC Torinese and Ginnastica Torino;"
"his first club, LUXX, located in Mayfair. He launched Toyroom in 2014, Charlie in 2015, followed by Scandal in 2017 and Italian restaurant La Mia Mamma in 2018. Luca Maggiora Luca Maggiora is a London-based restaurant nightlife and hospitality entrepreneur and co-founder of several London nightclub and restaurant brands including Toy Room, Scandal, Charlie Berkeley Street and La Mia Mamma Restaurant. Luca Maggiora was born and raised in Turin, Italy. He received two Masters degrees, one in sociology and one in business, from the University of Turin. He moved to London in 2006 and worked as a credit analyst for"
"Massimo Cellino Massimo Cellino (; born 28 July 1956) is an Italian entrepreneur and football club owner. Through his family trust Eleonora Sport Ltd he was the owner and chairman of the English club Leeds United. He currently owns Brescia Calcio. Cellino was the chairman of the Italian association football club Cagliari Calcio. He has served as vice-president for Serie A in the Lega Calcio. During his years as owner of Cagliari Calcio, Cellino was instrumental in the building of their sports centre in Assemini, near Cagliari, named after his father Ercole. Diego López was sacked by Cellino as Cagliari"
"of the White-Blacks. Consequently, as a result of this dismissal and because of the shift towards professionalism strived for by most of the Club's members, he sensationally left the Juventus Football Club. Followed in this decision by a group of dissidents, he then approached some of his fellow citizens — members of the Torinese Football Club — and co-founded the brand new Torino Football Club later that year. Alfred Dick committed suicide with a gunshot at the age of 44 in August 1909. Alfred Dick (entrepreneur) Alfred Dick (Yverdon-les-Bains, 12 April 1865 – Turin 10 August 1909) was a Swiss"
"White's White's is a gentleman's club in St James's, London, regarded as one of the most exclusive of its kind. White's is the oldest gentleman's club in London, founded in 1693, and is widely considered to be the most exclusive private club in the world. Notable current members include Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Conrad Black and Tom Stacey. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron was formerly a member for fifteen years but resigned in 2008, despite his father Ian Cameron having previously been the club's chairman, over the club's declining to admit women. White's continues"
"Quo Vadis (restaurant) Quo Vadis is a restaurant and private club in Soho, London. It primarily serves modern British food. It was founded in 1926 by an Italian named Pepino Leoni and has passed through numerous owners since then, including celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, and is currently owned by Sam and Eddie Hart, also the owners of Barrafina. The restaurant is named after the Latin phrase ""Quo vadis?"", meaning ""Where are you going?"" The restaurant occupies numbers 26–29 Dean Street. Nos. 26–8 form a uniform group built in by the carpenter John Nolloth, of St James's, and No. 29"
"Paulo, (2015), These clubs listed here do not necessarily meet the criteria for the spacial definition of a ""superclubs"" but are included for their significant cultural importance: Peppermint Lounge, (1958) and (1980), UFO Club, London (1960's), The Loft, New York City, (1970), The Warehouse, Chicago, (1977), Mudd Club, New York, (1978), Billy's London (1978), Blitz Club, London, (1979), Pyramid Club, New York, (1979), Club 57, New York, (1979), Camden Palace, London, (1982), The Batcave, London (1982), Taboo, London, (1985), The World, New York, (1986), Kinky Gerlinky, London, (1989), Vague Club. Leeds, (1993) B 018, Beirut, (1994). Cream, Gatecrasher and Pacha"
"Alfred Dick (entrepreneur) Alfred Dick (Yverdon-les-Bains, 12 April 1865 – Turin 10 August 1909) was a Swiss sports executive and entrepreneur. He was the president of Juventus Football Club and later the founder of Football Club Torino. He was born in Switzerland and moved at a very early age to Turin. He was the manager of a leather and footwear company as well as a businessman with modern ideas but a difficult temperament and moody behaviour. Dick was the president of Juventus Football Club from 1905 to 1906, a period in which he was responsible for providing the Club with"
"City of London Club The City of London Club was established in 1832 and is the oldest of the gentlemen's clubs based in the City of London. Its Italian Palladian-style building was designed by English architect Philip Hardwick. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is its current royal patron. To be eligible for membership, applicants traditionally had to be a partner or a director of their firm. The Club has occupied the same building at 19 Old Broad Street, near Tower 42 and Liverpool Street station, since its foundation, although it initially occupied it on a leasehold basis, with freehold being"
"opened neighbouring club The Marquee. Korner's new band, and others, were duly booked. However the audiences were still limited to a small group of enthusiasts and the future was uncertain. A Jamaican Blue Beat club just off Portobello Road (immortalized in the move Scandal) was one of the hottest spots in London at the time. On a visit Giorgio had a chance encounter with its most notorious clients – Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice-Davies. He invited them to visit the Marquee Blues Night and they showed up the following week. The publicity generated was enough to give the night sufficient"
"team will play its first Premier Division game in March 2017 for the first time since 2003. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club is a men's social and athletic club located at 1630 Stockton Street on Washington Square, North Beach in San Francisco, California. The current club was the result of the merger of several smaller Italian sports clubs in San Francisco. The first club formed in 1917 and was called ""Circolo Ricreativo Italiano Virtus"". In 1919 a second club emerged called ""Unione Sportiva Italiana"". Shortly thereafter ""Sporting Club Italia"" began in 1920. The following"
"Coppa Italia, Champions League, and Supercoppa Italiana, as well as minor tournaments and friendlies. It is one of the only major crosstown derbies in association football that are always played in the same stadium, in this case the San Siro, as both Milan and Internazionale call San Siro ""home"". On 13 December 1899, Alfred Edwards and others founded the ""Milan Cricket and Football Club"". Edwards, a former British vice-consul in Milan and a well-known personality of the Milanese high society, was the club's first elected president. Initially, the team included a cricket section, managed by Edward Berra, and a football"
"Luca Maggiora Luca Maggiora is a London-based restaurant nightlife and hospitality entrepreneur and co-founder of several London nightclub and restaurant brands including Toy Room, Scandal, Charlie Berkeley Street and La Mia Mamma Restaurant. Luca Maggiora was born and raised in Turin, Italy. He received two Masters degrees, one in sociology and one in business, from the University of Turin. He moved to London in 2006 and worked as a credit analyst for Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in the City. In 2008 he got a consultation contract for the transportation and logistics department at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2009 he opened"
"Torino F.C. was founded by breakaways from Juventus and was one of the most formidable teams in the Serie A during the 1940s (before and after World War II), hence the nickname ""Il Grande Torino"" (""The Great Torino""). In 1949, in the Superga air disaster, a plane carrying almost the whole Torino F.C. team (at that time the most important team in Italy and known as the ""Grande Torino"") crashed into the Basilica of Superga in the Turin hills. Valentino Mazzola was among those who perished in the accident. The ""C.U.S. Torino"" volleyball team won the domestic league four times"
"Internazionale F.C. Torino Internazionale Football Club Torino commonly known as just Internazionale Torino was an Italian football club from Turin. The club was founded by a merger in 1891 and is the third Italian club dedicated to football. Two older clubs in Turin existed before this one, they were mixed sports clubs who competed in football. They were formed respectively in 1887 and 1889, and were called Torino Football and Cricket Club and Nobili Torino. The former was founded by Edoardo Bosio a merchant worker in the British textile industry had brought the game back to Turin after experiencing it"
"Café Monico Café Monico is a restaurant on London's Shaftesbury Avenue. It was originally established in 1877 at 15 Tichborne Street in 1877 by the brothers Giacomo and Battista Monico. The first World Weightlifting Championships, then known as the International Amateur Weight Lifting Championship, was held at the Café Monico in 1891, and the Climbers' Club was formed there in 1897. The banquet for the London 1899 chess tournament took place there. After some time as the nightclub Avalon, a refurbished Cafe Monico reopened under the new ownership of Soho House in April 2016. It is now a two-floor restaurant"
"also been known as the ""Black and Whites"". The club's initial attempt to don the famous black and white stripes of Italian club Juventus were thwarted when the South Australian Soccer Federation ruled that there could only be one black and white team per league and the black and white of Port Adelaide took precedence. Juventus thus first wore a navy blue strip with a white “J” before finally being permitted to wear black and white stripes from 1949. When the NSL was formed in 1977, Adelaide City's badge included the Italian tricolour, as well as its now iconic kangaroo"
"popular among Italian subcultural activists and artists, possibly because of the Milan connection. The reasons why the group chose the name remain unclear to mainstream journalists (e.g. the BBC suggested that Blissett, one of the first black footballers to play in Italy, may have been chosen to make a statement against right-wing extremists in the country). It has also been suggested that, when being scouted by A.C. Milan, the Watford player they were impressed with was in fact John Barnes and they mistakenly bid for Blissett being one of the two black strikers at the club. If this is the"
"hold. He died on April 1, 1969, at just 58 years old, and was cremated at Golders Green Cemetery. The club was sold shortly thereafter, to old friend, Mark Birley, owner of Annabel's. It became Mark's Club, which continues to this day to be one of the most exclusive clubs in London. Siegi Sessler Siegi Sessler (9 September 1910 - 1 April 1969) was a prominent London restaurateur and club owner in the mid-20th century.He started club life after the Second World War, and opened Siegi's Club in 1950 at 46 Charles Street in London's Mayfair area. Siegi's became the"
"Chinawhite (nightclub) Chinawhite is an exclusive nightclub in central London. The original club was located between Piccadilly Circus and Soho, but the club closed in December 2008 due to the building being sold. It re-opened at a new location in London on 20 October 2009 at 4 Winsley Street, in Fitzrovia. The original Chinawhite venue near Piccadilly Circus became a well known celebrity club; being attended by Premier League footballers, Page 3 girls, and young people in the entertainment industry. The Virgin Pocket Guide to London noted that it was ""notoriously tough to get into"" unless you were a member"
"San Francisco Italian Athletic Club The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club is a men's social and athletic club located at 1630 Stockton Street on Washington Square, North Beach in San Francisco, California. The current club was the result of the merger of several smaller Italian sports clubs in San Francisco. The first club formed in 1917 and was called ""Circolo Ricreativo Italiano Virtus"". In 1919 a second club emerged called ""Unione Sportiva Italiana"". Shortly thereafter ""Sporting Club Italia"" began in 1920. The following year SC Italia joined with Virtus becoming ""Italia Virtus Club"". In 1926 they merged with Unione to"
"Bath Club The Bath Club was a sports-themed London gentlemen's club in the 20th century. It was established in 1894 at 34 Dover Street. Its swimming pool was a noted feature, and it is thought that the swimming pool of the fictional Drones Club (also on Dover Street) was based on this. It was one of the few gentleman's clubs that admitted women. Sir Henry ""Chips"" Channon was a member. Mark Twain stayed here when he visited London. Guglielmo Marconi stayed here as well when he visited London. The club building was hit by bombs during the Blitz in 1941,"
"Herbert Kilpin Herbert Kilpin (24 January 1870 – 22 October 1916) was an English football pioneer, player and manager. He is best known as the founder of Italian club A.C. Milan. Kilpin was born in Nottingham on 24 January 1870. The son of a butcher, he grew up with nine older siblings at 129 Mansfield Road — though the place has been renumbered to 191 Mansfield Road since 1895. After leaving school he worked as a lace warehouse assistant in the city. He was a keen footballer and, aged only 13, he had taken part at the foundation of a"
"use recalled the one used at the time of the Grande Torino, with the important difference that the right side of the oval crossed the letter ""T"" and ""C"" (initials of ""Torino Calcio"") instead of the letters ""A"", ""C"" and ""T"" (initials of ""Associazione Calcio Torino""). In 2017, the Irish club Wexford Youths renamed itself Wexford F.C. and adopted a new crest with rampant bull, inspired by Torino's. Club chairman Mick Wallace is known to be a Torino fan. The first official match after the foundation, 13 January 1907 (a derby against Juventus), was played at the Stadio Velodrome Umberto."
"a pink and black kit. Juventus first won the league championship in 1905 while playing at their Velodrome Umberto I ground. By this time the club colours had changed to black and white stripes, inspired by English side Notts County. There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. President Alfred Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found FBC Torino which in turn spawned the ""Derby della Mole"". Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World"
"Bar Italia Bar Italia is an Italian café located on Frith Street in the Soho district of London. On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television at 22 Frith Street, the building where Bar Italia is located. The blue plaque above the front door commemorates this event. Bar Italia in its present form was opened as a cafe in 1949 by the Polledri family, and is still owned by Veronica and Anthony Polledri today. Bar Italia inspired the song of the same name by the band Pulp, which is the last track of their"
"Bar Italia Bar Italia is an Italian café located on Frith Street in the Soho district of London. On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television at 22 Frith Street, the building where Bar Italia is located. The blue plaque above the front door commemorates this event. Bar Italia in its present form was opened as a cafe in 1949 by the Polledri family, and is still owned by Veronica and Anthony Polledri today. Bar Italia inspired the song of the same name by the band Pulp, which is the last track of their"
"The Pigeon Detectives on lead guitar for a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's song ""Hey Joe"". Cellino has properties in Leeds and Miami, Florida. Cellino has a wife, Frances, and three children: two sons, Ercole and Edoardo who were directors at Leeds United, and a daughter Eleonora. Massimo Cellino Massimo Cellino (; born 28 July 1956) is an Italian entrepreneur and football club owner. Through his family trust Eleonora Sport Ltd he was the owner and chairman of the English club Leeds United. He currently owns Brescia Calcio. Cellino was the chairman of the Italian association football club Cagliari Calcio."
"investigated by Italian authorities over a failed attempt to buy the club in 2006 over money laundering allegations involving suspected associates of the Camorra crime syndicate. He was wanted by the Italian police and his ""Football Show"" co-host Charlie Stillitano said Chinaglia never returned to Italy because ""He never wanted to take the chance"". He had previously attempted to buy another Italian club, U.S. Foggia, in 2004, but that attempt also failed after money-laundering allegations and he fled to the United States. Chinaglia is survived by his three children, Cynthia, Giorgio Jr. and Stephanie. In 2012 they established the Giorgio"
"each. Below this, the levels have progressively more parallel divisions, which each cover progressively smaller geographic areas. The first leagues were started by English immigrants in the 1890s in Italy. The first club was ""Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club"" (now ""Genoa Cricket & Football Club""). Initially there were separate leagues for Italians and foreigners, they merged around 1897. In March 1898, the Italian Football Federation (""Federazione Italiana del Football"", later re-called ""Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio"", FIGC) was set up in Turin. With four clubs joining - Genoa, ""FC Torinese"", ""Internazionale di Torino"" and the ""Società Ginnastica di Torino"" (""Gymnastic Society"
"1974–75 (18) and 1975–76 (21). He was succeeded by teammate Francesco Graziani in 1976–77, who scored 21 goals. After almost 40 years, Ciro Immobile (22) established himself as the league top scorer in 2013–14. Torino F.C. Torino Football Club (), commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that plays in Serie A. Founded as ""Foot-Ball Club Torino"" in 1906, Torino are among the most successful clubs in Italy with seven league titles, including five consecutive league titles at the time of the ""Grande Torino"", widely recognised as one of"