Arianna Criscione is a former professional football player that played across varied European football leagues and proudly represented the Italian national team as well as making appearances in the UEFA Champions League.

Alongside her professional football career, she understood the power of investing in herself and the future and received a master’s degree in football business from the Football Business Academy. Equally, she was among the first cohort of students to receive the FIFA Diploma in Club Management, as well as completing the Crossover to Business Program from Harvard Business School.

Arianna is now the Director of Women’s Football at N3XT Sports and uses her experience and creativity to help football stakeholders to build sustainable and accelerated blueprints that raise the women’s game.