People In Football Cannot Say What I Am About To Say | Michael Valenzia

Champions Connect Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 2h 20m

What does it cost to give eleven years of your life to a football club?

Michael Valenzia is the former president of Birkirkara FC, the Maltese Premier League club he served for 11 years, first as team manager from 2015 and as president from 2021.

He resigned as president in May 2026. He arrived in 2015 as team manager, two months after he stopped playing, told it would be easy. He describes three bubbles in his life, his family, his business and the club, then admits without being asked that the club was always the first one. He calls that a sick thought.

In this conversation he explains what…