Charlie Stillitano

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Charlie Stillitano
NationalityAmerican
Known forSports Executive
Radio Presenter

Charlie Stillitano is an American sports executive and radio presenter. He currently serves as the Executive Chairman of Relevent Sports, the company that hosts the International Champions Cup, and as a host of The Football Show on SiriusXM FC 157 which airs weekdays at 7am Eastern[ clarification needed ].

Biography

Charlie was born in New Jersey. His father, Charlie Sr., was one of the founders of the Italian-American Soccer League in the New York Metro Area and he served as President of the Soccer Referee Association of New Jersey. [1]

Stillitano played soccer at the Pingry School where he became captain and was named to the First Team All State. Following high school, Charlie attended Princeton University where he became captain of the Princeton Tigers men's soccer team. [2] At Princeton, he was named as an All-American and All-Ivy League. [3]

Stillitano went on to get a law degree and eventually was named the venue director for Giants Stadium at the 1994 World Cup. [4] With Major League Soccer starting in 1996, Stillitano became the general manager of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. [4]

In 2003, he was the largest shareholder of the promoter ChampionsWorld, [5] before moving on to Creative Arts Agency (organizers of the World Football Challenge) in 2007 which was bought out by Stephen M. Ross' Relevent Sports [ sic ] agency in 2012. [6] Stillitano is currently the chairman of Relevent. [7]

Charlie has been named as one of the most influential people in global football by both ESPN and The Score. [8] [9]

He is a radio daily talk show host for The Football Show for SiriusXM FC 157, SiriusXM's all soccer channel. It airs weekdays at 7am Eastern where he is joined by Tom Rennie and "Rocky" Ray Hudson. His listeners have dubbed him "Champagne Charlie" due to his busy travel schedule which requires him to meet some of the most powerful people in world football. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Charles Stillitano Bio | New Jersey Soccer Association". Archived from the original on 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Charlie Stillitano - Host". Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  3. ↑ "Stillitano '81 Named One of the Top 50 Most Influential People in Soccer". Princeton University Athletics.
  4. 1 2 Wahl, Grant. "Stillitano: World soccer's best connected American". www.si.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  5. ↑ "Stillitano brings soccer world to U.S." Sportsbusinesdaily.com.
  6. ↑ "Charlie Stillitano rises, falls and returns to prominence in American soccer". Philly.com. 23 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Charlie Stillitano's Champions League plans are an insult to Leicester City – and football". The Guardian. 2016-03-04. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  8. ↑ "50-41 includes Stilitano, Granovskaya". ESPN.com. July 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ Lopopolo, Anthony. "The 25 most influential people in world football in 2017". theScore.com.
  10. ↑ "SiriusXM FC - Your SiriusXM Home for Soccer - SiriusXM Radio". SiriusXM. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
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