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
A Club on Its Knees May 2021. The San Siro sits half-empty, Europe is still locked down, and Inter Milan, freshly crowned Serie A champions, cannot make payroll. The club that gave the world il Grande Inter of Helenio Herrera, that beat Real Madrid in the 1965...
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...
by Andrea Zanon | Jun 6, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Markets reward people who move first. This is well know in investment and entrepreneurship, particularly in tech. We know it in deal flow. We know it in the race to plant a flag before the crowd arrives. Yet there is one first mover advantage sitting out there that...
