Gab Marcotti

I did, yeah.

And he was an important figure, not just in Serie A, but also in the US.

You'll remember his lawsuit against Major League Soccer.

When he was the owner of New York Cosmos, he was determined to introduce promotion and relegation.

came to Italy, came to Fiorentina, spent a lot of money, left some great legacies behind, like the Viola Park, which is sort of this tremendous training complex that they have, really state-of-the-art.

Easily, I think, the best one in Italy.

at the same time was known to be extremely, you know, I look, if I were an outspoken billionaire, I would take these liberties too.

Right.

So, you know, he would, he would take issue with stuff that's like written in little blogs in like the local press in Florence and stuff.

Very colorful figure, self-made, uh, self-made billionaire.

Um, I went to Columbia university incidentally on a scholarship.

Um, and,

larger than life and uh and he's passed on and uh yeah our thoughts go out to uh to him and his loved ones jules this brings us to an end on a sad note but uh we have champions league football we have in week uh we kind of missed the champions league uh yeah he's back and back to back by the way back to back week as well so we're at the business end here so uh we're gonna be back on thursday to tell you all about it until then love the game love your neighbor love yourself

I'm Gab, he's not Jules.

That's right, making his debut, we have Sam Tai.

Welcome aboard, Sam.

and co.

Yeah, I knew the V word was going to come out at some point.

All right, enough Real Madrid.

How about some quick hits instead?