The managerial staff of Akademia Sant’annto. For the 2025-26 season, the corporate leaders will be able to count on the professionalism and experience of Antonio De Lucalawyer specialized in sports law, e Daniele Boata prominent figure of territorial and national entrepreneurship. The first will play the role of Strategic Sport Advisor, while the second will take care of the club commercial branch.
“With great enthusiasm and determination I start this new collaboration with Akademia Sant’Anna, assuming the role of Strategic Sport Advisor; it is a professional figure oriented to the strategic managerial but also commercial development of the company”; These are the first words of Antonio De Luca.
“I thank the president Fabrizio Costantino who strongly wanted my insertion into Akademia. My collaboration was born with a clear objective: to create added value in a concrete way, not only through the consolidation of the internal structure but also through a strengthening of relationships with all external stakes, both commercial and institutional on the level “.
The professional background of Antonio De Lucacharacterized by legal training, has developed in the field of sport management, tending to the football world. It is, in fact, sports director enabled at the FIGC, with a long experience gained on the field thanks to numerous collaborations within professional clubs; Recently with Casertana Calcio, a militant company in the Serie C professional championship.
“I will take care above all – continues De Luca – to develop and manage partnerships to enhance the strategic positioning of the Akademia brand; concretely, it will serve to position us on the market, launching a message: we are more a simple club. And if up to the moment we have been and local level, now we want to expand, create a structure that it is possible to offer ourselves also in a national market”.
“A part of my business will be dedicated to the sports part, with a staff support, athletes, but also to the reference management. Initially, I will carry out a very in -depth analysis of the club’s reality, with an objective eye not being linked to any type of collateral interest, aimed at highlighting both the strengths and the areas where it will be necessary to make improvements to the organizational and commercial structure. Subsequently, together with the whole Management and the property, A strategic operational plan, both to generate new revenues and to consolidate those already generated, strengthening the brand and giving it greater competitiveness.
The figure of the manager are commonly accustomed to finding it inside the companies. Today, sports clubs are companies in all respects: “Having managers within sports clubs – not only managers related to ownership – allows you to acquire a strategic vision but above all a more functional structure. The manager works so that the company, and therefore the club, can carry out a qualitative leap on the level of sustainability, creating added value. At the moment in which there is no strategic vision of economic sustainability, in ninety percent there is no long life”.
Antonio De Luca will overlook the world of volleyball for the first time; What the points of hooking with football and which, on the other hand, the differences: “I think there are many points of hooking. When we talk about clubs and also ambitious, tendency to operate and the winning strategies are very similar. As regards the differences, perhaps in terms of the environment; in the sense that starting new projects, these could request an extra period of adaptation. I see many more similarities than differences.”
What idea did you make akademia? You talked about ambitious clubs: “I resume these words exactly because it was my first impression when I met the president. And I also found a structured club; in my previous experiences, I saw few so organized. I can guarantee that, entering a mechanism already so developed, for me it will be a great honor. Akademia is an already structured club that works very well locally. In Messina there is a real sporting miracle; Which is going beyond all the difficulties that tend to be present, in general, in the South. Akademia is the only club in A2 of the extreme southern Italy, clearly ambitious because the story speaks: in two years results have been achieved of great prestige and, with a pinch of good fate, the category jump would have arrived.
About the field; Surely, we will find you on the sidelines: “I promised the president that I will be as present as possible. To carry on all the initial analysis part, I will need to stay in Messina a long time”.
Already knowing the game system, the Palascifina: “A structure with great potential, both for the spaces and for the location. Thanks to the proximity to the football stadium, you could create an attractive pole at national level. It is clear that it will be necessary to make preliminary assessments and understand what is the best way to take but these will be subsequent speeches”.
Last question. Because a company should invest in a club like Akademia, a South reality: “I would not talk about a southern club because I can guarantee you that the structure and organization of Akademia, especially its vision, are as a national club. Why invest? First of all because there are guarantees. It is a company made up of serious people; the first not obvious element. Then, there are existing values inside that they are clearly transmitted. To be part of this reality, binding to this brand.
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