Industry Observers and sports media writers across an array of venues agree that Gino Pozzo is among the most significant figures in the realm of European football, more often called soccer in the United States.
Pozzo is credited for transforming one of the U.K.’s most storied franchises, Watford Football Club, from a fallen, hard-scrabble club to a premier contender in the upper echelons of the sport. That Pozzo is an Italian who was educated in America and spent the previous 20 years in Spain has made him no less endearing to British football fans.
Football is in the DNA of Gino Pozzo. Growing up in Udine, Italy, his mother and father had strong connections to the game. His mother, Guiliana, was a family relation to the owners of the Udinese Calcio Football Club. His father, Gianpaolo Pozzo, was a passionate supporter of the Udine team. He would one day purchase the team.
Gino Pozzo left for the U.S. after finishing high school in Italy and earned a master’s degree at prestigious Harvard University. He met the love of his life there, a Spaniard, and the pair married and relocated to Barcelona.
It was there that Gino Pozzo engineered his first success. In 2009, his family acquired Granada FC. The team was dismally mired in millions of Euros in debt and slouching along in third-division level play. Within two years, a series of masterful moves catapulted Granada out of the third division into Segunda B and then into the Primera Lega.
After that success, the Pozzo family took an interest in Watford. They purchased the team and unleashed the sports genius of Gino into the team’s management and business strategy. Watford’s situation had been similar to that of Granada – playing in the minor leagues and burdened by a mountain of debt. But the Gino Pozzo magic worked his magic again and brought Watford back to its former days of glory. See this article to learn more.
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