Giovanni Buys a Football Club

It’s the mid 90s and Giovanni is, by now, a budding megalomaniac. He’s becoming a big player on the world stage. All rich and powerful men need a hobby and Giovanni chooses football. But not satisfied with watching on from the terraces, he goes football club shopping, with consistently calamitous results.Calum and Michael chart his career from Italy, to Scotland - and discover that where Giovanni went - trouble was usually not far behind.Swindler, Saviour, Mobster, Spy? is a What's The Story original podcast series. What's The Story are the leaders in premium true-crime podcasts and audio story-telling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Who is Giovanni Di Stefano? It's a question his son Michael has been thinking about for most of his life. In this series, Michael wants to get to the truth - wherever that takes him. From one of the big names in Hollywood, to a life as a recording artist, a football club owner, a General in the Serbian army, and a lawyer to the biggest criminals in the world...there's a lot to unpack. Armed with Giovanni's hard-drive, containing the secrets to his extraordinary life, Michael embarks on a mission to discover who his dad really is. Could he be a fantasist, a cunning con-man, a wheeler-dealer, or perhaps, just possibly, an international spy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.