Pallotta: I feel a responsibility to give something back to Rome

Speaking on Wednesday at the launch of a landmark new Integrated Impact Report into the club's impact on its city - the first of its kind involving an Italian sports team - Pallotta revealed the club is eager to develop methods of measuring its effect on its environment, as the report promises to do.

The president said the insights will help him and the club improve the way it approaches its business from both a sporting and social perspective.

"I got an advance copy of the report and it’s fantastic," Pallotta said. "This is the first time this has ever been done by a sports club anyway in the world. We are proud to be involved."

He added: "We are at the beginning. We have a long way to go. We have a lot of ideas. We can’t accomplish what we want for Rome without the help from a lot of people in here.

"Most of you know me as the stupid American that came to Italy to buy AS Roma. You have to understand I came from a neighborhood in Boston that was 100% Italian. I always considered myself Italian, first and foremost - so do my kids and so do my parents.

"In a lot of ways it is coming back full-circle. I feel a lot of responsibility to Rome, and Roma, and Italy, to give something back, to be part of something."

See everything the president said at the event in the video below.