‘I’m obsessed with sport – to work on a subject you’d do for free, it’s heaven’: Dubliner Stephen Dowling hits the ground running at Fanatics

Super Bowl Sunday is big business for the international president of the sportswear giant

Stephen Dowling, Fanatics' new international president

Caoimhe Gordon

‘I’m just in from a run,” ­Stephen Dowling tells me from his home in the Netherlands. “And after this interview, I fly to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl.”

On the wall behind him, I spot a colourful banner. “I’m starting to prep for when I get back from Las Vegas, it’s my daughter’s birthday,” he adds.