Profile Matteo Renzi

Man on a mission

Even when he was small, you knew that he would be number one. He was always organising something, always arranging things. On the football field, he always wanted to be the striker.

Factfile

**Age:** 39

**Appearance:** restless, fresh-faced, self-consciously trendy

**Newsworthiness:** the 39-year-old mayor of Florence is about to become Italy's youngest ever prime minister, after a party coup

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Matteo Renzi has always been a natural winner. At the age of 19, he appeared as a contestant on the Italian television quiz show Wheel of Fortune. A YouTube clip shows the young man calling out, ''I have the solution!, defeating his two rivals and ...