How can Aston Villa crack the elite? This man thinks he has the answers
But no matter. The last thing he wants to be seen as is 'Calvo the foreigner' and he's immersing himself in it all: the club, Birmingham and its people and — now literally — the English weather.
He's good company, Aston Villa's president of business operations, newly arrived from Juventus, having also driven revenue at Barcelona and Roma and worked in Formula 1. Certain executives get giddy working in the Premier League and there was one who liked to bustle about in a training top bearing his initials, yet with Calvo, 48, there's no pretence.
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