Gino Pozzo is the president and co-owner of Watford Football Club. Under his stewardship, the team won promotion from The Championship back to the Premier League in 2015. Pozzo also led Watford through a restructuring which put the club on sounder financial footing and kept it in the top flight following relegation in 2016. Pozzo has enough experience to be a manager. He has been an executive at Watford since 2005 and is managing the club he had been involved with decades earlier – Udinese in Italy.

Gino Pozzo was born in Udine, Italy, and attended the University of Torino, where he started his football career. Pozzo successfully transitioned from player to coach during this time and rose through the ranks before becoming a co-owner of Udinese in the 1983-84 season.

After briefly managing Udinese’s secondary squad Lega Pro (the second tier of Italian football), Pozzo was promoted from director to general manager in 1989.

Gino Pozzo returned to Italy to become president of the club in 2000. He became vice-president of Udinese before being appointed president in 2005 when the club was struggling financially and near bankruptcy. Pozzo took over a group of owners with little or no relevant experience in football administration and little time to make changes at the club. The group had taken control just as former owner Giampaolo Pozzo was about to sell the club because his son had lost faith in his ability to continue leading it.

Gino Pozzo, however, turned things around. He led the club’s takeover and recruited Giampaolo’s son, Giampiero, to become chairman of the club. Together they managed a change in ownership structure that reduced leverage on individual owners and put the club on solid financial footing. Pozzo also signed shirt sponsorship deals and renegotiated broadcast rights deals to generate sustainable cashflows and allow the club to flourish. See related link to learn more.

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