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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akinwalere.

Naples Ourelio de Laurentis is one of European football's most recognisable owners.

And this week he's been telling Adam Crafton all about his plans to revolutionise football,

including a European Super Championship.

If you want to make a Super League, you can say the first three of each national championship.

Working with Antonio Conte. Mr. Conte will never abandon Napoli for his, he's a serious man, he's a serious professional

man.

And his thoughts on the influence agents have within the game.

I hate who does respect contracts all my life.

Well, Adam, you're here with us before we get into the interview.

I just want to know how you found him. Seems like you probably covered a lot of ground.

How did that interview come about? Well, it came about because DeLorentis is a movie maker by trade.

And he comes from a family of movie makers.

His uncle, Dino DeLorentis, was a kind of genuine legend of film,

kind of a ton of Academy Award nominations, and like the Big King Kong remake in 1976,

works with Federico Fellini, you know, sort of a genuine icon of cinema.

And his nephew O'Reilly, the owner of Napoli, he's been there for 24 years now as the owner

has taken them from the third tier of Italian football,

from the verge of bankruptcy to winning two seriat titles over the past three years.

So, you know, pretty good success.

And they made one of those kind of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, in-house documentaries

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