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Career

Entry into football: AC Carpenedolo
After starting to work in the family business, La Leonessa S.p.A., Tommaso Ghirardi joined the football world in 1998, when he decided to buy the Football Association Carpenedolo, a sports company in the surroundings of Brescia born in 1957 that at the time of the engagement he played in Terza Category. Under his presidency the Carpenedolo in 2004 entered for the first time in professional football, with the promotion in Serie C2 following a championship won with 68 points in Serie D. The Brescian Rossoneri show the promotion in Serie C1 in the 2005-2006 championship, when the team coached by Gianluca Gaudenzi, subentrato Mauro Melotti, reaches the final play-off against Ivrea, losing the chance of the penalty of the Piedmont

The purchase of Parma

The first years
The possibility to enter the maximum series football is presented for Ghirardi in the spring of 2006: the, which for two years has been controlled by the extraordinary administrator Enrico Bondi, needs a buyer: the failed attempts to purchase by Lorenzo Sanz and Gaetano Valenza open the way to Ghirardi who buys the company in partnership with Angelo Medeghini and Banca Monte Parma after the sodalizio had been put in January 3, 2007.

In the first two games as a maximum leader arrive two defeats against and, as a result of which Stefano Pioli exonerates and leads to the ducal house Claudio Ranieri; the things initially do not change: in the first five games Ranieri never manages to win (four draws and a defeat), then the Emilian team began to get positive results from the victory for 1-0 against; the Giallorossi were able to resurre The team then obtained three consecutive victories against Fiorentina, and Cagliari, results that lead to salvation: on May 27, 2007, beating Empoli for 3-1, Parma obtains the chance to remain in Serie A for the 18th consecutive time.

In his first summer market Ghirardi invested with a passive of about 11 million euros; in fact he first redeemed all the players who in the past season were on loan or sharing, to then make purchases like Reginaldo, for which they were paid 4.5 million euros to Fiorentina, and Stefano Morrone, paid instead 2 million more the technical counterpart of the goalkeeper Alfonso De Lucia. Moreover the president acquires Damiano Zenoni from Udinese (exchange with Damiano Ferronetti plus the sum of 800.000 euros), the Czech porter Radek Petr, the goalkeeper Nicola Pavarini; buys at zero parameter the defender Giulio Falcone from and borrows the keniota Mcdonald Mariga from the Swedish of theHelsingborg and Bernardo Corradi from