Fabio Paratici was born on 13 July 1972 and is an Italian association football director and former footballer.
21 Facts About Fabio Paratici
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Fabio Paratici made his professional debut as a footballer with Piacenza in 1989, playing in Serie C1, the third tier of Italian football at the time.
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Fabio Paratici retired in 2004 at the age of 31, having played for 12 different clubs in 15 years.
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Fabio Paratici worked as chief observer and head of scouting of Italian club Sampdoria and established a successful partnership with Giuseppe Marotta that was repeated at Juventus, Italy's most renowned club, where he worked as chief football officer for about eleven years.
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In June 2021, Fabio Paratici joined English club Tottenham Hotspur as managing director of football, resigning on 21 April 2023 after his conviction for financial malpractice in the Italian Football Federation Plusvalenze investigation.
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Fabio Paratici has been indicted in an Italian criminal investigation into the same instances of financial malpractice and is currently awaiting trial.
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Fabio Paratici was a right-back defender and midfielder; over the course of his career, he was deployed as a wild card in all roles in the defence and midfield.
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Fabio Paratici was not confirmed and briefly joined the Serie D with Sassuolo, and then played for Marsala.
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Fabio Paratici remained there until he ended his 15-year career at the age of 32 in 2004.
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Sampdoria and in particular Marotta were upset about these rumours, and accused Cairo of going behind their backs trying to lure Fabio Paratici, who was still under contract with Sampdoria until 2009.
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In May 2010, Fabio Paratici moved from Sampdoria to Juventus, along with Marotta and coach Luigi Delneri.
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At Juventus, Fabio Paratici was appointed head of technical affairs and sporting director by chairman Andrea Agnelli.
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At Juventus, Fabio Paratici is notable for his transfer moves that brought the club a cycle of successes, including the Italian defender Andrea Barzagli, who formed along with Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini a top defensive lineup that came to be known as the BBC from their initials, the Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal, and the forwards Argentines Carlos Tevez and Paulo Dybala.
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In November 2018, Fabio Paratici took over from Marotta as sporting director, and then took on the role of managing director from October 2020.
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On 26 May 2021, after eleven years with the club, Fabio Paratici's expiring contract was not renewed, and he left Juventus; his successor was Federico Cherubini, who was the sporting director of the club's youth teams and was promoted to technical director of the first team after Marotta's farewell.
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On 12 June 2021, Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur announced that Fabio Paratici would be taking over as their managing director of football.
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On 21 April 2023, Fabio Paratici resigned from his position at Tottenham after losing his appeal against a worldwide ban imposed by FIFA.
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Fabio Paratici was suspended for 30 months from holding office in Italian football as punishment for capital gain violations; its former club was docked 15 points.
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Alongside the other parties, Fabio Paratici received the note preceding this document, dated 31 March 2021, on 14 March 2023; this time, the FIGC made no appeal or opposition and delivered the document, which did not name Juventus but discussed the difficulty of determining an objective value of traded players.
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On 31 March 2023, Spurs announced that Fabio Paratici would take a leave of absence from his role as the managing director of football pending the outcome of an appeal filed after FIFA extended his ban over Juventus's dealings to apply worldwide.
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Fabio Paratici resigned from Tottenham on 21 April 2023 after his appeal was rejected.