A successful Italian American lawyer with a great passion for soccer. Joe Tacopina opened the doors of his office in Manhattan (New York) to Calcio e Finanza to talk about his goals with Venezia and his commercial and sport strategies. Joe is a goal oriented professional, someone who understands where he needs to be because, “this is something really important in the world of football that is an environment full of pitfalls.” A man with a strong will and great sense of confidence, values that he honed by working as a prosecutor for several years.

Tacopina’s parents were born in Rome, “my father was Romanista and growing up in Brooklyn I was always exposed to soccer. I never forgot that growing up in that neighborhood I was consumed by the passion but then when I went to Rome, at the Olimpico stadium for the first time, it was something that I never experienced before in a sporting context. I was captivated by hearing the Curva singing for almost two hours and feeling the bottom of the stadium moving underneath my feet.”