Rocco Commisso, owner of both the New York Cosmos and Serie A side Fiorentina, had an entire segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes this week. The Italian immigrant to the United States purchased both clubs after amassing a net worth over $8 billion.



Commisso, as detailed in the profile, is one of the most famous American soccer club owners in Europe. Part of that is a credit to the size of Fiorentina as a club. However, other parts are due to his flamboyant nature and failure to back down to the media. For example, Commisso often gets into a heated conversation with reporters during press conferences. 



However, Commisso is committed to the things he owns. For example, the 60 Minutes story showed a massive new training facility for his Fiorentina players.



While there was no discussion of his ownership of the New York Cosmos, the same passion and personality for <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/news/rocco-commisso-and-us-soccer-20171205-CMS-227983.html">Rocco Commisso extends into American soccer</a>. He has a pending federal antitrust lawsuit against US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer. Commisso alleges that US Soccer, as the governing body of soccer in the United States, employs anticompetitive practices designed to favor Major League Soccer.



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As owner of New York Cosmos, Commisso has spent millions in legal fees to continue the case&nbsp;against US Soccer. His New York Cosmos are a staple of American soccer with a storied history. However, the club was denied access to be a division two side. Moreover, he bought the Cosmos when it was in financial ruin.



<h2>Rocco Commisso features on 60 Minutes</h2>



In Europe, there are more and more Americans owning teams. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham and five more Premier League clubs have American owners. The trend exists in Italy, too, with Commisso just one of eight Americans or American groups to have a majority stake in a Serie A club.



The 60 Minutes story talks about Commisso’s heritage, and is worth a watch if you want to see business become passion. Paramount+ is currently offering a <a href="https://paramountplus.qflm.net/c/330866/1007330/3065" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">free 7-day trial</a> so you can watch the episode in its entirety. Plus, the streaming service includes NWSL, Serie A and UEFA Champions League, to name just a few of the many leagues it broadcasts.



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Rocco Commisso, owner of both Fiorentina and the New York Cosmos, was one of the centerpieces of a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday.

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Milan (AFP) – Napoli held on to their early lead of Serie A&nbsp;after Sunday’s goalless draw at Fiorentina, while Atalanta’s 1-0 win at Verona ensured they moved level with the early pacesetters.
Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli were less flamboyant than in their opening two victories but had marginally the better of the opportunities in a lively encounter at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
Not even the introduction in the second half of lively new signings Giacomo Raspadori, Giovanni Simeone and Tanguy Ndombele could push the away side to the win.
The stalemate puts Napoli on seven points from their opening three matches, level with several teams, including champions AC Milan and Atalanta.
Fiorentina, who are also unbeaten, sit ninth on five points.
An intense contest in Florence began with the hosts on the front foot and they went closest to taking the lead midway through the first half when after Alex Meret spilled Riccardo Sottil’s shot, Giacomo Bonaventura flashed a low drive just wide.
Victor Osimhen had a tap-in ruled out for offside just before the break as Napoli grew into the game. The away side should have been ahead not long after the restart.
Amir Rrahmani headed Piotr Zielinski’s cross narrowly over in the 48th minute. Then, just after the hour mark, Hirving Lozano wasted a golden chance to put Napoli ahead.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, in less eye-catching form than in hs first two games, dangled the most inviting of crosses from the right which Mexico attacker Lozano somehow headed wide close range.&nbsp;
Raspadori came on after an hour and was denied the winner with eight minutes of his debut remaining, Pierluigi Gollini getting down well to push the Italy international’s low shot wide.

– Koopmeiners strikes for Atalanta –

Earlier Teun Koopmeiners drilled home a powerful winner four minutes after half-time at the Stadio Bentegodi to keep Atalanta unbeaten.&nbsp;
Gian Piero Gasperini’s side missed good chances to make the win more comfortable and would have taken only a point back to Bergamo had Darko Lazovic’s 63rd-minute strike from distance bounced in rather than out off the bar.
Salernitana sit a point behind Fiorentina in 10th after they hammered Sampdoria 4-0 thanks in large part to Boulaye Dia, who opened the scoring in the seventh minute and set up two more on his full debut for the club.
Dia, on loan from Villarreal, tapped home Federico Bonazzoli’s low cross and, although his goal was initially ruled out for offside, a VAR check overturned the decision and put the hosts ahead.
Dia then turned provider for Bonazzoli’s superb strike which double Salernitana’s lead with a quarter of an hour gone.&nbsp;
Tonny Vilhena made sure of the three points in the 50th minute when he delicately finished off Lassana Coulibaly’s chipped through ball after a beautiful passing move.
Erik Botheim completed the rout with 14 minutes remaining with a perfect low finish from Dia’s pass which slid past Emil Audero and in off the post.
A humbling defeat and Lecce’s 1-1 draw with Empoli dropped Samp, who are yet to score this season, into the drop zone with a single point.&nbsp;

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Milan (AFP) – Fiorentina will return to European football for the first time in five years after beating Juventus 2-0 to qualify for next season’s Conference League.
Alfred Duncan’s finish on the stroke of half-time and Nicolas Gonzalez’s late penalty gave Vincenzo Italiano’s side the win they needed to guarantee continental competition.
Fiorentina ensured seventh spot in Italy’s top flight, three points ahead of Atalanta who lost 1-0 at home to Empoli and miss out on Europe for the first time since Gian Piero Gasperini took over as coach in 2016.
Giorgio Chiellini made his final appearance in a Juve shirt in a typically feisty match between big rivals and he left the field with a bleeding head after a clash with Fiorentina forward Krzysztof Piatek in build up to Duncan’s winner.
The 37-year-old didn’t come back out for the second half and ended his Juve career unable to help his team salvage something from the match.
Lazio closed their season in fifth, a point and one place above local rivals Rome after an entertaining 3-3 home draw with Verona.
They and Roma had already ensured their places in the Europa League.
On Sunday, the Serie A title will be decided with AC Milan needing just a point to snatch the Scudetto from local rivals and reigning champions Inter Milan.

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Turin (Italy) (AFP) – Holders Juventus booked their spot in next month’s Italian Cup final against Inter Milan with a 2-0 win over Fiorentina in their semi-final, second leg in Turin on Wednesday to advance 3-0 on aggregate.
Juventus lost their Serie A crown last season to Inter Milan and also fell to an Italian Super Cup defeat by their northern rivals in January.
Sitting fourth in Serie A, Juventus’s hopes of avoiding a season without a trophy for the first time since 2011 will likely be played out at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico on May 11.
Juve took control of the semi-final against their Tuscany rivals after Lorenzo Venuti’s late own goal in the first leg in Florence.
On Wednesday, former Fiorentina winger Federico Bernardeschi fired the hosts ahead after half an hour, with Danilo adding a second just before the final whistle.
Fiorentina could thank goalkeeper Bartlomiej Dragowski for denying ex-Fiorentina striker Dusan Vlahovic twice in the first half-hour, but Bernardeschi volleyed home the opening goal.
Juventus goalkeeper Mattia Perin saved headers from Arthur Cabral and Lucas Martinez Quarta either side of the break.
Denis Zakaria missed the chance to double Juve’s lead on the night, hitting the woodwork after the interval.
An Adrien Rabiot goal was then ruled offside before Juan Cuadrado set up Danilo to score late on as Juve maintained their bid for a record-extending 15th Italian Cup.
On Tuesday, Lautaro Martinez scored twice as Inter Milan beat city rivals AC Milan 3-0, after a goalless first leg, as the seven-time winners look to reclaim a trophy they last won in 2011.

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Milan (AFP) – Napoli’s hopes of a first Serie A title since the days of Diego Maradona suffered a blow on Sunday after they slumped to a 3-2 home defeat to Europe-chasing Fiorentina.
Last champions in 1990, Napoli would have moved top of the pile with a win in front of 50,000 fans in Naples but they stay a point behind league leaders AC Milan after goals from Nicolas Gonzalez, Jonathan Ikone and Arthur Cabral condemned Luciano Spalletti’s side to a painful defeat.
They could end the weekend four points off the pace with six games remaining in an exciting campaign as Milan travel to Torino in Sunday’s late match.
Napoli sit third, level on 66 points with Inter Milan who have a game in hand and are back in the thick of it following their 2-0 win over Verona on Saturday.
“It’s a defeat that has cost us a lot,” said Spalletti to DAZN.&nbsp;
“It’s more difficult for us now but we don’t have any other choice but to continue being top-quality professionals, get back to doing what we do and try to win the next match. But it’s not down to us anymore.”
The manner in which southern Italy’s biggest club flopped on a gorgeous day at the Stadio Maradona does not bode well for the run-in with fierce rivals Roma coming to town next weekend hunting a place in the Champions League.
– Cheers to jeers –
Napoli’s title challenge four years ago was ended by Fiorentina and the Viola again proved their nightmare.
The hosts were the better side until Gonzalez opened the scoring on the half hour with a thumping finish off the post, after which they almost vanished from the field until the introduction of Dries Mertens 10 minutes after the break.
Mertens’ first act was to almost lift the roof off the stadium by drilling home a superb first-time finish from Victor Osimhen’s cut back, but the roars of the passionate crowd were soon extinguished by two quick-fire Fiorentina goals.
Just eight minutes had elapsed since Mertens’ leveller when Ikone collected Gonzalez’s cross and rifled his team back into the lead, and jeers began ringing around the ground in the 72nd minute when Cabral brilliantly curled in the third.
“Even I don’t know how I scored that,” said Cabral after his second goal since arriving from Basel in January.
“I received the ball from (Youssef) Maleh and then instinct just took over.”
With six minutes left Osimhen, who had struggled all day to get the better of the brilliant Igor Julio, smashed home his 12th league goal of the season which will offer little consolation to the Nigerian and his teammates.
A third win in a five-match unbeaten run has Fiorentina — in seventh above Atalanta who were sunk by Hamed Traore’s brace in a 2-1 defeat at Sassuolo — two points off Serie A’s Europa League spot currently held by Lazio after they were fired to 4-1 win at Genoa by a Ciro Immobile hat-trick.
– On-fire Immobile –
Italy forward Immobile took his league-leading tally to 24 goals in 27 games this season, two more than Juventus forward Dusan Vlahovic, in a victory which put Lazio one point ahead of local rivals Roma who face Salernitana later on Sunday.
Immobile, heavily criticised for not reproducing his Lazio form for Italy, was expected to retire from international football after Italy’s failure to qualify for a second straight World Cup.
“I’ve never taken a backward step in my career,” he told DAZN.&nbsp;
“I’m focusing on the rest of the season, hope to end it well with Lazio and then we’ll see.”
Genoa, who scored shortly after Immobile’s second through a Patric own goal, suffered their second straight defeat and stay in the relegation zone.
Alexander Blessin’s side are three points behind Cagliari who sit 17th after losing 2-1 to Juventus on Saturday and level with Venezia after they fell to a stoppage-time 2-1 defeat to local rivals Udinese.

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Milan (AFP) – Napoli’s hopes of a first Serie A title since the days of Diego Maradona suffered a blow on Sunday after they slumped to a 3-2 home defeat to Europe-chasing Fiorentina.
Last champions in 1990, Napoli would have moved top of the pile with a win in front of 50,000 fans in Naples but they stay a point behind league leaders AC Milan after goals from Nicolas Gonzalez, Jonathan Ikone and Arthur Cabral condemned Luciano Spalletti’s side to a painful defeat.
They could end the weekend four points off the pace with six games remaining in an exciting campaign as Milan travel to Torino in Sunday’s late match.
Napoli sit third, level on 66 points with Inter Milan whose title challenge is back on track following their 2-0 win over Verona on Saturday.
The manner in which southern Italy’s biggest club flopped on a gorgeous day at the Stadio Maradona does not bode well for the run-in with fierce rivals Roma coming to town next weekend hunting a place in the Champions League.
Napoli were the better side until Gonzalez opened the scoring on the half hour with a thumping finish off the post, after which the hosts almost vanished from the field until the introduction of Dries Mertens 10 minutes after the break.
Mertens’ first act was to almost lift the roof off the stadium by drilling home a superb first-time finish from Victor Osimhen’s cut back, but the roars of the passionate crowd were soon extinguished by two quick-fire Fiorentina goals.
Just eight minutes had elapsed since Mertens’ leveller when Ikone collected Gonzalez’s cross and rifled his team back into the lead, and jeers began ringing around the ground in the 72nd minute when Cabral brilliantly curled in the third.
– Cheers to jeers –
Osimhen, who had struggled all day to get the better of the brilliant Igor Julio, smashed home his 12th league goal of the season which will offer little consolation to the Nigerian and his teammates.
Earlier Ciro Immobile shot to the top of the Serie A scoring charts with a hat-trick in Lazio’s 4-1 win at struggling Genoa which moved them up to fifth.
Italy forward Immobile took his league tally to 24 goals in 27 games this season in a victory which put Lazio in the Europa League spot, one point ahead of local rivals Roma who face Salernitana later on Sunday.
The 32-year-old has two more than Juventus forward Dusan Vlahovic after netting with a beautiful low finish on the stroke of half-time to put Lazio two ahead and adding two more in the second period.
Immobile, heavily criticised for not reproducing his Lazio form for Italy, was expected to retire from international football after Italy’s failure to qualify for a second straight World Cup.
“I’ve never taken a backward step in my career,” he told DAZN.&nbsp;
“I’m focusing on the rest of the season, hope to end it well with Lazio and then we’ll see.”
Genoa, who scored shortly after Immobile’s second through a Patric own goal, suffered their second straight defeat and stay in the relegation zone.
Alexander Blessin’s side are three points behind Cagliari who sit 17th after losing 2-1 to Juve on Saturday and level with Venezia after they fell to a stoppage-time 2-1 defeat to local rivals Udinese.

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Milan (AFP) – Fiorentina on Tuesday asked their supporters to avoid racist chants as they prepare for the first leg of their Italian Cup semi-final against Juventus and old boy Dusan Vlahovic.
Wednesday’s match will be the first time Serbia forward Vlahovic returns to Florence since leaving Fiorentina for fierce rivals Juve towards the end of the January transfer window.
In a statement, which didn’t name Vlahovic, Fiorentina invited “fans to support the team with their passion, hearts and extraordinary sense of humour, showing their love for these colours for the whole 90 minutes while avoiding racist and discriminatory chants which have nothing to do with our culture or history”.
Vlahovic was targeted by Atalanta fans with racist chants calling him a “gypsy” in September, insults which left the 22-year-old, then still a Fiorentina player, on the verge of tears during his post-match interview having just scored twice in a 2-1 win.
That incident came a month before a small group of Fiorentina supporters called Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly a ‘monkey’ and also racially abused Victor Osimhen during a 2-1 home defeat to the current Serie A leaders.
Vlahovic’s departure to Juve, historically the team most despised by Fiorentina supporters,&nbsp;came after months of rows over a contract extension at the Viola which never materialised.
Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso said publicly that Vlahovic had flat-out refused to sign a new deal which would have made the forward the club’s highest ever paid player.
He left for Juve in a deal worth an initial 70 million euros ($80.2 million) after becoming one of Europe’s hottest young talents, and since moving to Turin he has scored four times in six matches in all competitions.
He leads the Serie A scoring charts with 20 goals in 25 appearances after netting twice at Empoli on Saturday as Juve consolidated a spot in the Champions League places and moved to within seven points of pacesetters Napoli and AC Milan.
“Tomorrow’s match should be a night of sport,” Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri told reporters on Tuesday.
“Vlahovic will always be grateful to the city of Florence, Florentines and the club which raised him and enabled him to get to a level to play for Juventus.”
Allegri added that one of Vlahovic, Alvaro Morata and Moise Kean would not start at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, although his new signing is expected to play.

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