Rocco Commisso, the outspoken proprietor of Italian soccer membership Fiorentina and chairman of New York-based Mediacom Communications, has died. He was 76.
Each Fiorentina and Mediacom introduced Commisso’s dying early Saturday with out offering a trigger.
“After a chronic interval of medical therapy, our beloved president has left us, and at the moment all of us mourn his passing,” Fiorentina stated. “His love for Fiorentina was the best present he gave himself.”
After making Mediacom into one of many United States’ greatest cable tv corporations, Commisso bought Fiorentina in 2019 and have become recognized for talking out towards Italy’s forms and lack of ability to construct new stadiums.
Commisso was born in Calabria and immigrated to the US on the age of 12.
He additionally owned the New York Cosmos, and performed soccer at Columbia College, the Ivy League faculty that he continued to help philanthropically.
The college’s soccer stadium is known as for him.
“Rocco fought for what’s finest for American soccer, believing within the development of the sport, the significance of group, and the facility of golf equipment to encourage the subsequent technology,” the Cosmos wrote on X on Friday evening.
“The New York Cosmos lengthen their heartfelt condolences to his spouse Catherine, his youngsters Giuseppe and Marisa, his prolonged household, and all these whose lives had been touched by Rocco.”
At Fiorentina, Commisso celebrated reaching the Convention League remaining in 2023 and 2024.
However the workforce has struggled this season and is at present in Serie A’s relegation zone.
