Al-Ittifaq FC is not a standalone project. Under the ownership of Pietro Laterza, the Club sits alongside AC ChievoVerona — one of Italian football’s most storied names — within a single ownership group built on the Tre Elle Group’s investments across real estate, hospitality, energy and sport. This dual ownership was created deliberately, to foster genuine synergies between UAE and European football, both institutionally and in terms of concrete opportunities for players and staff. In practice, this relationship gives Al-Ittifaq access to Chievo Verona’s coaching methodology, scouting network and football operations expertise, while offering promising UAE-based talent a credible pathway into European football through training exposure, loan opportunities and shared recruitment intelligence. The two clubs already compete against each other on the pitch — including a pre-season friendly at Chievo’s Bottagisio training centre in Verona — and share players, staff and know-how across both footballing cultures. Over the life of this strategy, the Group relationship will be formalised into a structured framework covering joint scouting, coaching exchange, player pathways and commercial cooperation