«I’m happy even if I support Juventus. Objective? The C series »- Corriere.it

Football, youth, social. Emanuele Filiberto dives into the world of football
: is ready to buy Savoia football. And no, the name of the team – currently in group A of Excellence -, which recalls the Savoy origins of the scion, is no coincidence. In fact, since 2003 he has been an honorary member of the club born in 1908 and dedicated to the royal house of Savoy. “I’ve been following the club closely for a couple of years, it struck me when I returned to Italy for the first time and met the club: they gave me their shirt … and the fact that they never changed that name, that’s it. I was pleased. How it pained me to see the Camorra, the scandals and the consequent arrests, stain those colors, those of the oldest sports club in the Center-South », he told Corriere. Thus he cemented a link with a geographically distant company (based in Torre Annunziata, province of Naples), yet so close. Today the official launch of the project with the formation of «Casa Reale Holding SpA», a consortium of entrepreneurs coordinated by Nazario Matachione and Marco Limoncelli. “Acquire this team? I would be very happy », he says to Courier satisfied the late Prince. “I cheer for Juventus, but it doesn’t overshadow my enthusiasm for this new adventure.”

“I am linked to the South of Italy” says Filiberto who explains how this is “an action in favor of the territory”. Yes, because the group’s goal is to create the largest nursery of footballers in the South, with the formation of an Academy and scholarships dedicated to the best talents and “to those young people from some districts of Torre Annunziata and the South in general” , to keep them away from crime.

Emanuele Filiberto lives with his wife, Clotilde Courau, and their two daughters in Monte Carlo, but “I come to Naples several times a year,” he confesses. His travels may soon be even more frequent. Tomorrow the signature on the notarial deed that will kick off the joint stock company, at 11 am the press conference to present the proposal at the Basilica of the Madonna della Neve in Torre Annunziata. «We have chosen a symbolic place – explains Matachione – because it is there that the city was born, but it is also the heart of the district with the greatest incidence of the Camorra and the district in which there is the greatest desire to leave. And not only with football ». The sporting dream reveals Emanuele Filiberto: “Bringing the Savoy to Serie C”. The road is long, enthusiasm is the right fuel.