Resignation of CEO Lina Souloukou: Rome in search of new leadership

"AS Roma announces that CEO Lina Souloukou has resigned". The Giallorossi club wrote in a note. "We thank Lina for her dedication in a particularly critical phase for the club and wish her all the best in her future professional challenges," the statement added. The ownership remains fully focused on Roma's growth and success, with a constant attention to the values that make our team so special. Yesterday's news that the CEO had been placed under 'protective measures' due to the tensions created around the club after the exoneration of Daniele De Rossi, the Giallorossi's historic flag bearer along with Francesco Totti.

The now ex-CEO of Roma, who ended up in the storm after the exoneration of Daniele De Rossi, had been assigned a protective service. In recent days, after De Rossi's departure from the leadership of the Giallorossi team, the controversy has become more and more heated, with the fans in revolt against the Friedkin's American management, to the point that on the wave of increasingly heated attacks the security authorities of the capital have decided to assign her a protection service. In recent days Lina Souloukou has come under fire from the fans, who have not at all liked the change in the bench between De Rossi and the CroatianIvan Juric and she has been the target of offensive slogans and writings on social networks and in the streets of the city, the latest of which was the banner 'Ddr sea of Rome... Lina the evil of Rome!" displayed in the night outside the Fulvio Bernardini training centre in Trigoria. Stickers against the US ownership appeared in various places in the capital. A protection, according to leaks from the corridors of Trigoria, that Roma's general manager has been enjoying for the past 48 hours. According to Adnkronos, even the Greek manager's two children, aged 3 and 8, who are also escorted to their respective compulsory schools, are involved in this complicated situation.

Lina Souloukou was born in Larissa, Greece in 1983. Studies in Law with a specialisation in Sports Law with also a Master's degree in Sports Law and Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, she has been in football for 16 years. In 2016 she joined Olympiacos as Head of Institutional and Legal Affairs and about a year later was promoted to General Manager, before also being appointed CEO, a role she held from 2018 until June 2022. She was appointed CEO of Roma on 18 April 2023.