AC Milan CEO Ivan Gazidis

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Grant has a wide-ranging interview with Ivan Gazidis, the CEO of AC Milan, which has become a contender again this season for the Scudetto in Italy. Gazidis, who previously was the chief executive at Arsenal and the MLS deputy commissioner, explains why he decided to take the Milan job; his strategy for the club on and off the field; what it's like to work with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paolo Maldini; his views on why new investors are coming to Italian clubs; his thoughts on the future landscape of European soccer; his stories from the origin of MLS; and whether he'd like to return to MLS as the commissioner someday. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there! Welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview
0:12.5	guest is Ivan Gazetus, the CEO of AC Milan. We've had some great guests lately, including
0:19.8	Semra Hunter, Loots Fondinsteel, and Jack Harrison. I also encourage you to check out my podcast
0:26.8	series, American Prodigy, The Freddy, The Dew Story. All eight episodes are out and you can binge
0:34.4	all of them to your heart's content. Now, here's my interview with Ivan Gazetus.
0:41.5	Our guest now is a name that should be familiar to American listeners. Ivan Gazetus is the CEO of
0:48.5	AC Milan, the great Italian club that is back atop the Italian top flight in what is shaping up to
0:55.9	be a special season. Ivan spent a decade as the chief executive at Arsenal, and before that,
1:02.8	he was on the ground floor of the start of MLS, spending 14 years with the league, including
1:09.1	seven as the league's deputy commissioner. Ivan, it's great to have you on the show. Thanks for
1:14.1	joining me. Hi Grant, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me on and looking forward to our chat.
1:20.0	Yeah, lots to talk about here, and congratulations on what Milan is doing this season. It's been
1:26.8	really cool to see the resurgence. In terms of, we saw this starting to happen
1:35.3	after the restart last season, what are some of the most important moments in your opinion in bringing
1:42.5	Milan to the top of the Serie A standings? It's really interesting Grant. It's not one thing.
1:48.7	I think there's so many stories to be written here, actually. It's really a great story with
1:55.5	lots of moments. You could tell a story about our coach, Stephanopioli, and the great job he is
2:05.3	doing. He came into a really difficult situation as new coaches usually do, and just brought
2:12.5	calm and focus and a real modernity to his approach to the game. Very, very impressive guy,
2:22.0	top-class coach. You could tell a story about Paolo Maldini and our sporting director with him
2:28.7	at his side, Ricky Massara, and the job they've been doing. Paolo, obviously, a massive legend in
2:35.0	the game, but is applying himself to something that's new. That would be a great story of itself.
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