by Andrea Zanon | Sep 19, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
This is what I notice. Entrepreneurs and executives seek efficiencies, for scale, for output. They don’t stop to call people on the phone, and they forget that the people on the other side of every trade, every negotiation, every partnership are still running on the...
by Andrea Zanon | Aug 14, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Inter Milan Is Not Madrid’s Little Brother. It Is Its Equal. Let us start with a fact that most people in Italian football do not know, or prefer not to say out loud. Italy is richer per capita than Spain. Not slightly. By 18 percent. GDP per capita in Italy...
by Andrea Zanon | Aug 12, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
How a Distressed Debt Firm Stole Inter Milan, Built an Empire, and Is Now Deciding Whether to Sell the Crown Jewel of Italian Football A Club on Its Knees May 2021. The San Siro sits half-empty, Europe is still locked down, and Inter Milan, freshly victorious of Serie...
by Andrea Zanon | Aug 5, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
The social code no app will teach you, and every local already knows I have watched it happen dozens of times in Venice, Roma and in Lake Garda. A line forms outside a busy trattoria, five or six tourists standing single file at the door, waiting for someone to talk...
by Andrea Zanon | Jul 7, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Walk through an Italian town in the early afternoon and you might think something has gone wrong. The shops are shut. The streets are empty. In the one trattoria still open, a fork turns slowly against the side of a plate, in no hurry to get anywhere. Nothing is...