Italy great Chiellini joins LAFC ownership group

Italy and Juventus large Giorgio Chiellini has joined LAFC's ownership group, the MLS nine announced Tuesday.

Chiellini spent the last 2 years of his playing vocation astatine LAFC earlier retiring astatine the extremity of 2023.

"Joining the LAFC ownership radical is simply a large grant for me," Chiellini said successful a connection arsenic portion of the team's announcement. "When I arrived present 3 years agone arsenic a player, I instantly felt that determination was thing peculiar astir this club. It is an ambitious organization, built by bonzer radical and supported by a assemblage that genuinely makes you consciousness astatine home.

"That is why, past year, I expressed my tendency to go an owner, and present I'm arrogant to proceed this travel and springiness my enactment to a task I profoundly judge in."

Chiellini served arsenic LAFC's subordinate improvement manager successful 2024 and was besides named an enforcement astatine Juventus past year, focusing connected relations with nationalist and planetary shot institutions.

"We are thankful to person the accidental for Giorgio to proceed his bequest with LAFC arsenic a subordinate of our ownership group," said LAFC pb managing proprietor Bennett Rosenthal.

"Giorgio has ever brought tremendous leadership, professionalism and quality everyplace helium goes, and his values perfectly align with the semipermanent imaginativeness we person for LAFC. We are grateful to person Giorgio arsenic our person and present partner."

Chiellini won 117 caps for Italy and captained them to the Euro 2020 title.

He spent the immense bulk of his nine vocation astatine Turin giants Juventus, wherever helium was a cardinal portion of a squad that won 9 consecutive Serie A titles.

With LAFC, helium reached 2 consecutive MLS Cup finals, helping the nine triumph its archetypal title successful 2022.