Journalist Bartocci among the world’s 40 most influential leaders under 40 2025
Italian journalism on the world podium: Daniele Bartocci has been included in the annual Elite Business Award ranking of the 40 most influential leaders under 40 in the world in 2025. Young sport&food excellence honored for innovation and leadership. After the annual European 2024 edition in Paris, this time Rome will celebrate the Best 40 Under 40 2025.
In the world of soccer, as in journalism, talent is not enough. You need method, you need work culture, you need, above all, a vision. And Daniele Bartocci, a young journalist from the Marche region of Italy (born in Jesi like former Azzurri coach Roberto Mancini), already seen over the years as a pundit on various radio and TV programs such as Il Processo di Biscardi, seems to have internalized these principles like a coach who builds his team from the fundamentals. His entry on the prestigious Top 40 Under 40 2025 – Business Elite Awards 2025 list, with a European ceremony this year scheduled for November in Rome (after the 2024 edition in Paris), is the fruit of an arduous path that started from the bottom, made up of courageous choices, determination, sacrifices and a constant quest for excellence. An award, that of Top 40 Under 40 2025 (reserved for the world’s most influential under-40 personalities), surely among the most coveted by young managers and industry professionals. A prestigious recognition that, for Bartocci, is worth double, almost as much as an away goal scored.
The young Daniele Bartocci is not only a passionate and award-winning sports journalist. He is a professional who has been able to give a style to his work, a recognizable identity in the food&sport sector. The international award committee celebrates him for his ability to work effectively in two seemingly distant fields: communication – sports journalism and agribusiness management. “We award sports journalist and food manager Daniele Bartocci for his ambitious work at the intersection of sports journalism and food management. His unique ability to excel in both fields distinguishes him as a dynamic and forward-thinking professional,” reads an excerpt from the motivation for the worldwide award (with headquarters in Toronto).
As a technician who is not satisfied with the result, Daniele Bartocci (already included among the100 Italian Excellencies 2023 at Montecitorio along with the likes of Gigi Buffon and Loris Capirossi) has built a career over time based on solid values: responsibility, innovation, inclusiveness, sustainability. Already a winner of the Global Award Recognition 2025, he is now also among the finalists of International Elite 100 Award 2025, further confirmation of an impact that goes beyond national borders. Its approach, which blends sports storytelling and food culture, in full respect of the values of Made in Italy excellence, has been recognized as distinctive and strategic, capable of generating value. Journalist Daniele Bartocci’s list of honors includes awards such as food manager of the year 2023(Innovation&Leadership Awards at Piazza Affari), the Andrea Fortunato Award at the Coni 2024 Hall of Honor (pictured with Roberto Mancini) as the best young Italian sports journalist, the Food and Travel Awards 2022, the Pietro Mennea Award 2024, Renato Cesarini Award, Top10 BarAwards 2022, the Giovanni Arpino of Turin (Unpublished) Award, the National Philosophy Award 2025, the Golden Word Award on Capitol Hill and the Blog of the Year 2022 (voted best Italian sports blogger 2022), just to name a few awards. But what is striking is not the quantity of awards, but rather the consistency of his path. Bartocci (his uncle is the first Italian vice-coach of Julio Velasco, who coached in Jesi in A2 back in 1983) has been able to make sense of his work, like a coach who does not change the module with every defeat, but insists on a game idea.
The European ceremony in Rome, at the luxurious St. Regis hotel, will be a significant milestone and not an end point for Daniele Bartocci. Because, as we know, he who has vision does not stop. And the talented young food&sport 2025 Bartocci Daniele from Jesi, like great technicians, knows that success is never final. It is only the result of a method that works.
