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Seven Beauties of Serie A: Udinese officially announced it was acquired by US funds, and Serie A US-funded teams have reached seven

12:56pm, 1 June 2025【Football】

In the stands at Friuli Stadium, the olive oil fragrance of the Pozzo family has not yet dissipated, and Udinese has officially announced that it has changed hands with a US-funded fund of 150 million euros. This second oldest club in Serie A, born in 1896, officially joined the Serie A "Seven Big Seven" camp after the Pozzo family took charge of 39 years. Together with Inter Milan, Milan, Rome and other teams, North American Capital has controlled 35% of the top clubs in Serie A.

Udines in the Pozzo era can be called a "civilian miracle": Gimbalo Pozzo, who was a player, built a "Three-Nation Transfer Corridor", and through the talent network of Granada, Spain and Watford, England, this civilian team opened the door to the Champions League in 2004. Its scouting system and "black store" business model were once the survival templates for Serie A small and medium-sized teams. Now that the change of ownership of the US capital may be the subversion of style - the "black and white black chicken" known for its "tall and tough" may not be able to continue the team-building philosophy of Pozzo's era.

Serie A US-funded camp has shown obvious differentiation: Oak Capital lets Marlotta let Inter Milan firmly rank in the championship, Italian boss Comiso's Florence sticks to the European war; while Redbird Capital uses the "magic ball theory" to disrupt the Milan locker room, and the Friedkin family's "extensive investment" in Rome has repeatedly been in the FFP crisis. When seven American-funded clubs form the "Star and Stripe matrix" of Serie A, the game between capital logic and football tradition is rewriting the Apennines' football genes. Udinese's change of ownership may be just the latest footnote to this cultural conflict.