“In recent years he has given me a big hand and it is right to give him some well-deserved recognition, so from today he will be the new general manager of Fiorentina and will join the board of directors.” If football is anxious about Joe Baronecurrently hospitalized in intensive care at San Raffaele, is also because a few months after the purchase of the club from the Della Valle, Rocco Commisso announced his appointment as his right-hand man in the Viola clubthus strengthening a bond and collaboration that took off a few years earlier.
Born in Pozzallo, Sicily, on March 20, 1966, Barone moved with his family to the United States, to Brooklyn, at the age of 8. Finished your studies began a career in the banking-financial sector interrupted after the meeting with the Italian-American tycoon of Calabrian origin who included him in his telecommunications company Mediacom and subsequently appointed him vice president of the New York Cosmos in 2017, immediately after acquiring the majority share, saving them from bankruptcy.
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The Sicilian manager, married to Mrs. Camilla who bore him four children (Pietro who made him a grandfather a year ago, Salvatore, Giuseppe former footballer from Ascoli, Perugia and Salernitana, and Gabriella) is in short Commisso’s man in every way in the world of football. In fact, the entrepreneur, after having sent him to Florence instead to wait for the negotiation with the Della Valles to be closed, then entrusted him with the management and management of Fiorentina from the very beginning, demonstrating his complete trust and esteem in him.
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Joe Barone, the anguish of Fiorentina fans on social media
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It is Barone who represents the Viola club in the Lega councilsit is always he who deals personally with the market but also with the projects of Viola Park and the stadium affair. In some cases his decisions and statements have sparked criticism and controversy but Commisso has always taken his side: “The more my managers are criticized, the closer Rocco will be to them, this is my method” the owner has always responded viola.
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– 2024-03-28 22:54:45
