Romeu Italo Ripoli

After great effort, due to the lack of means of his family, graduated in 1940 by Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (ESALQ), also located in Piracicaba.

In its university period it had strong performance and work by the construction of own headquarters of Academic Center Luiz de Queiroz, which would only be fulfilled in 1963.

He broke with the Governor Adhemar de Barros and resigned from public service because he did not agree with the use of his professional actions for political and demagogic purposes.

[1] In 1950, he launched in the property market of Piracicaba one of the first typically residential quarters of high standard of the interior of São Paulo and the first asphalt of the city, in lands of the former farm of Pedro Rico, having as an entrepreneur partner the commander Mário Dedini, his godfather.

He founded a small assembly company of TV sets, SOBRATEL (Sociedade Brasileira de Televisão), in order to compete with imported ones.

In fact, Ripoli had filed an indictment in the lower house to point out irregularities of his former president, Francisco Antonio Coelho, accused by the press of sponsoring ghost officials.

[4] In 1976, XV was vice champion the Paulista Football Championship, the team's greatest title to date and the first club in the interior of São Paulo to reach such a standings.

[1] A charismatic leader, Ripoli got involved in several disputes with the Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF), always seeking to bring benefits to clubs in the interior of São Paulo.

Always winding up his straw cigarette, he was a type in the newspapers and in the sports programs of the TV, where he appeared frequently, criticizing judges and leaders of the FPF.

[1][7] "In his hands", Losso Netto assures us in Jornal de Piracicaba on 29 October 1983, "the veterans club lived its greatest moments of glory.

Book "Forty Years of Glories", edited by Ripoli.