Parma owner on his passion for the club & the city
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman and The Athletic's football news reporter Matt Slater are joined by Kyle Krause, US owner of Italian top flight side Parma Calcio 1913. A hugely successful billionaire businessman, Kyle explains what drew him to Italy as well as the importance he places on going to games and communicating with the fans in the city of Parma.
Kyle also shares his thoughts on the proposed European Super League, the negative stereotypes of US owners of football clubs and the business opportunities he sees in Italian football compared with other leagues on the continent.
Matt also gets the very latest on Kyle's vineyards!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.6 | How the vineyards? |
| 0:04.9 | Good. I haven't spent much time over there, to be frank. |
| 0:08.6 | We have a home over there, and I went over for the weekend before the Tijuana game. |
| 0:12.8 | Things seemed fine. It was early frost, but overall fine. |
| 0:15.7 | But yeah, it's a great business. It's a beautiful area. |
| 0:17.7 | I bet. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the Business of Sport podcast on The Athletic. |
| 0:27.1 | And as you can hear, Matt is trying to get some wine off our guest today. |
| 0:33.0 | When do you get a chance to sample this year's vintage? |
| 0:36.7 | It was interesting. |
| 0:40.0 | Our inologist came over here for one of our games when we played Milan. He's a Milan fan. He's a Palmer fan, but he's a Milan fan. And so he |
| 0:45.7 | brought some of our wine over for a tasting. So we tasted one of our wines and tasted the last three years |
| 0:49.8 | and could be most in the barrel right now. So I miss I got a chance to do a little bit of the wine sampling from the winery side, |
| 0:57.5 | why I'm over here doing the football stuff. |
| 1:00.6 | Kyle Krause, the American billionaire owner of Seria side, Palmer, |
| 1:05.5 | this kind of chat is exactly what happens before we actually record the interview. |
| 1:10.6 | But coming up, we're going to talk to him about why he bought the club, |
| 1:14.6 | his perspective on that proposed Super League, and his plans and ambitions, |
| 1:18.6 | both for Palmer and for Seria. |
| 1:22.0 | Kyle Krauss is a hugely successful billionaire businessman, |
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