Pompeo D'Ambrosio

After nearly 3 years of fighting (from 1940 to 1942, when he also participated in the conquest of Tobruk) he was wounded and taken as a POW during the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942, receiving a military Medal of Honor signed by the same Mussolini.

Many companies of Italian-Venezuelans, like "Vinccler" and "Constructora Delpre" (that made the skyscrapers of the Parque Central Complex, until 2010 the tallest of South America), received his experienced advice and financial help in order to grow at the first levels of the Venezuelan economy.

He was even co-founder of the "Casa de Italia" and the "Centro Italo-Venezolano" of Caracas, and participated in many other associations for the health and social assistance of the Italians with a low-level income.

[3] His honesty made him to fight the growing but corrupted power of Pedro Tinoco (and his group called "Twelve Apostles") when he became President of the Banco Central de Venezuela.

The D'Ambrosio Era of the team lasted twenty years until 1978 and was characterized by four championships of the Primera División Venezolana and the famous "Little Maracanazo" of 1971 (when the Deportivo Italia won in the Stadium Maracanã of Rio de Janeiro the Fluminense, Champion of Brazil).

Indeed, between 1961 and 1972, every year, the Deportivo Italia of Pompeo and Mino D'Ambrosio obtained first or second place in the Venezuelan Championships (and/or a good performance in the South American Copa Libertadores).