Which Italian club has the richest owners? No, not Juventus, Milan or Internazionale, nor even Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza. Surprisingly, the correct answer is Como, the Serie B club that has been under the control of Indonesian brothers Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono since 2019.
When the Hartono brothers arrived, the club from Lombardy was in Serie D, the fourth level of Italian football and highest non-professional league, rebuilding after a tragic bankruptcy that almost erased a club that has competed in Serie A 13 times. They finished as high as sixth place in1949-50, and spent five consecutive years in the top flight during the1980s. In 2002, they became the first Italian team in history to achieve back-to-back promotions from Serie C to Serie A. Yet they only lasted one season, and have not returned to the
