The president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina gave a long and interesting interview to the notebooks of ‘Messaggero Veneto’. During the back-and-forth, Gravina responded thusly to the many Serie A presidents who are pushing for the reinstatement of the Growth Decree: “I don’t comment on the Growth Decree, but you can’t think of starting an entrepreneurial activity in football if you don’t valorise two assets: the nurseries and the stadiums. We cannot think of focusing on the nurseries only if the incentives to do so arrive or on the stadiums if someone pays for them. In Udine a far-sighted family like the Pozzos invested in the stadium ten years ago, then they arrived others like Atalanta. Now foreign properties are doing the same.”
Then in another passage he added: “Worried about the many foreign owners? No, it’s globalization. Only in Germany, a model I prefer among the foreign ones for its ability to enhance a product in sustainability, the limit of 51% of the shares of a club that must be German does not bring the Of course, four Serie A clubs are owned by funds that obviously focus on finance, but I have had the opportunity to deal with some foreign properties and on the stadium, infrastructure and merchandising front they have an edge, a push that in my opinion it can only bring advantages. Football is evolving and following the crudest laws of the market economy.”
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