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Teaser - The Interview: Joe Tacopina (Ep. 109)
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Introduction to Italian Football Podcast
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The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
Patreon Membership Invitation
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Questioning Roma Role Involvement
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Well hang on, you and I are going to get into more depth in this in a few days, but you mean you actually did have an operational role at
Jim's Sensitivity and Roma Tenure
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Roma. It wasn't, I forget Jim's exact words, but you weren't just shuffling through the cupboards for gear, yeah?
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You know, it's funny, Jim is a very sensitive guy and apparently has a lot of enemies in the world, but he just got very upset by the fact that I simply pointed out that a lot of tenure was not successful because Roma didn't win a thing, not a cup, not even an exhibition cup.
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It's not good, so it's as simple as that. It's just a fact. But of course, Jim takes that very personally.
Emails with Jim Palazas
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He can't hurry defensive and said that I had no operating role with Roma. Well, you know, the funny thing is, John, you and I have discussed this. I have plenty of emails with Jim
Jim's Disengagement with Roma
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Palazas. He's going to do many things with Roma, including when Jessica took his contract and all that kind of stuff. But let Jim have his little fun with China's keyboard, and that's it. He pays as much attention to Roma in the last 10 years as he does now.
Vice President and Board Membership Assertion
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And what people are saying now, he may have been more successful.
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Anyway, yeah, I was the vice president. I was put together. I was a member of the board of directors.