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Union academy-bred midfielder Anthony Fontana’s move to Italian second-division team Ascoli finally crossed the line on Friday, starting a new career chapter for the 22-year-old from Newark, Del. Fontana left the Union at the end of the 2021 season to seek his fortune elsewhere, after growing up in his hometown club’s academy and playing four seaso...

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Gianluca Busio was just a kid when he arrived at Sporting Kansas City’s academy. Last August, he left as a mature teenager, embarking on a European adventure with Venezia in Italy's Serie A. The US men's national team midfielder joined the latest edition of The Call Up, reflecting on his tutelage with Sporting KC under manager Peter Vermes, the...

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Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca is among the American investors who've purchased a 55-percent ownership stake in Italian soccer club Atalanta. Susy Campanale of Football Italia reported Saturday the agreement allows the Percassi family to remain the single largest shareholder with its 45-percent stake. "Antonio and Luca Percassi will retai...

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Italy's Serie A wants to organise a tournament in the United States during this year's World Cup, using players not called up by their national sides, as it seeks to boost its international profile, chief executive Luigi De Siervo said. Qatar will host the World Cup from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18, forcing major European leagues such as Serie A to take an...

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Atalanta in US orbit: to enter the future even more firmly. This explains the sale of a package of shares, which would be 55%, to a group of US entrepreneurs, with an important Italian-American component. Imminent sale: closing expected by next week, it cannot be ruled out that it will already take place on Monday. But the management of the company...

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An exhausting negotiation, which lasted almost two months, after a long tug of war between the old ownership and the new buyers of the Campania club, finally ended positively yesterday evening. From today Nocerina is owned by Giancarlo Natale, an Italian American successful in the restaurant industry in the United States. He himself will be preside...

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The Italian football federation has officially announced their intention to bid for the right to host Euro 2032. The bidding process for the hosting rights for the 2028 and 2032 European Championships starts on March 23, with the deadline to present a completed project set for April 12 2023. UEFA’s final decision will be made in September of the sa...

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The project is ambitious: to bring the Serie A to the United States for a tournament during the World Cup in Qatar, scheduled from November 21 to December 18. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, it would be a way to tickle a strategic market, for our soccer, such as the United States. Secondly, to allow clubs to keep in activity the...

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Last December, New York-based private equity managers Robert Lewis and John Aiello acquired a majority stake in Cesena FC, an Italian soccer club located 50 miles southeast of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region. Cesena FC is now one of two U.S.-owned teams competing in Serie C, the third tier of Italian soccer (the other being Campobasso). It is...

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Regarding the recent disagreements between Rocco Commisso and the national Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the president of Fiorentina can also count on the support of a well-known Italian American philanthropist: Angelo Vivolo. A charismatic figure like Vivolo will be in the front line in defense of his compatriot and owner of Me...

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