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“You’ll have to be exhausted. ” Without fail, this is the first thing I hear when someone finds out that I have a bathroom at home. They are not wrong. I’m devastated by fatigue. The dream was almost for weeks. Although not for my son; she is bloodless for 12 hours a night. You see, in my head, I’m about to own an English Premier League football club.
I like football. Having my own professional team, even with a minority stake, would be a dream come true. I’m not a billionaire, which is embarrassing. But one of my closest friends is. And friends share. He has an umbrella of mine. I didn’t even ask for it in return. And as irrational as it is, if the potential owner organisation that my friend is a part of presents the winning bid for Chelsea FC, I will feel like I own the club. The problem, and what helps me stay up at night, is that being a billionaire, or having one as a friend, is rarely enough.
Two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, oligarch Roman Abramovich vowed to step back and hand over the “management and care” of Chelsea FC to the administrators of his charitable discovery. Less than a week later, Putin’s friend, former governor of Chukokta and owner of the world’s third-largest yacht, announced he would sell the team for fear of the “best interest of the club, the fans, the employees, as sponsors and members of the club. Rumours swirled, pundits pontificated and many of the world’s richest found themselves competing to curry favor with the public and seduce Chelsea loyalists.
An organization run by hedge fund guru Ken Griffin and the Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs, withdrew its offer after it emerged that Joe Ricketts, the family’s patriarch, had written emails containing racist language and puzzling conspiracy theories. 3 teams of potential homeowners in the race. Among its ranks are former Disney CEO Bob Iger, wonderful tennis player Serena Williams, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin (played through Andrew Garfield on The Social Network, as you were wondering), Formula 1 god Lewis Hamilton, and a bunch of rich Array guys. And that’s the challenge for me and my dream of owning a football team: there are too many rich people.
In 2021, Forbes reported that 2,755 billionaires inhabited the Earth. That means you can qualify for a billion dollars for a concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, sell a ticket with the price to anyone who can do it, and leave a few hundred billionaires cold. Some things are over. Football is by far the most popular game in the world and the English Premier League is their most popular professional league. There are only 20 Premier League clubs, so every time you hit the market, you’re a multi-million dollar catnip. But we’re not. Speaking of a Premier League club. The reigning UEFA Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup champions Chelsea are as sexy as a logo can be.
Chelsea FC play their home games at Stamford Bridge, next door, you guessed it, to Chelsea, a royal district that includes some of London’s richest neighbourhoods as well as some of the poorest. Made in Chelsea may serve as a British response to Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, however, the club has noticed its percentage of vandalism in football. A search through “Chelsea Grin” in Urban Dictionary shows that Chelsea’s standout scouts have cut corners of rival fans’ mouths and let them look like Heath Ledger. Jester.
LeBron James owns a component of another Premier League team, Liverpool Football Club, but many other top-tier Americans are investing closer to home. Matthew McConaughey took advantage of the possibility of buying Austin F. C. , one of major league soccer’s new franchises. even the club’s self-proclaimed “culture minister,” a position whose day-to-day jobs include, in McConaughey’s own words, “clinging to the DNA of who we are and why we love Austin. “home games
Natalie Portman, Jennifer Garner, Kevin Durant, Serena Williams, Will Ferrell, James Harden, Jessica Chastain, Ciara, Russell Wilson, Naomi Osaka, Magic Johnson, Drew Carey, Mia Hamm, Oscar de los Angeles Hoya, Marshawn Lynch, Diplo, Christina Aguilera, Alex Ovechkin, Kate Upton, Eva Longoria, Tony Robbins and many others joined McConaughey in turning “the lovely game” into the sexiest celebrity investment.
Not surprisingly, football and celebrity are nowhere to be found like in Los Angeles. Will Ferrell, an inveterate soccer player married to a former school player, co-owns Los Angeles F. C. with Magic Johnson, Mia Hamm and her husband Nomar Garciaparra, Robbins. , co-founder of YouTube and many others who made a lot of money. Ferrell helps keep a low profile at house games, letting your wardrobe speak. Wear a pair of gold lucky pants or a T-shirt with the club’s leading security officer, a fan favorite at Banc of California Stadium.
For many celebrities, football represents an exclusive opportunity to invest in strong women, as the ones we have seen go beyond the global game and are true stars and role models. We like to be number one. And while our men’s national team has yet to dominate the world stage, our women have demonstrated dynastic greatness since the first Women’s World Cup in 1991.
Portman helped identify the National Women’s Soccer League team Angel City F. C. after hearing that Abby Wambach, a generational talent, two-time gold medalist and World Cup champion, needed a job. Unlike Peyton Manning or Kobe Bryant, her fellow 2016 ESPYs Icon Award winners, Wambach didn’t retire with a bunch of zeros in her bank account. Portman contacted venture capitalist Kara Nortman in hopes of joining forces to bring professional women’s soccer to Los Angeles. Portman and Nortman, Hollywood’s latest and greatest rhyming couple, have recruited Serena Williams, Jessica Chastain, Christina Aguilera, America Ferrera, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Garner, Rachel Zoe, Jay Shetty and Alexis Ohanian. Angel City FC will play its first home game at Banc of California Stadium on April 29. Wambach has also joined the organization as she continues to push for higher salaries, better running conditions and 401(k) plans to allow those athletes to retire comfortably. their masculine opposite numbers do. Fittingly, the greatest pioneer of gender equality in sports, Billie Jean King, sits next to Wambach at Angel F. C. owners box.
Even those who make an offer for Chelsea F. C. they don’t know when the next owner will be appointed. Any updates this week?An official announcement then? From one day to the next I hope to know whether or not I join the lucky few as co-owner of a professional football team. Or to be honest, whether or not I sign up for the close friends of the listed above who have never put their hands in their wallet but can stick to the route. Anyone allowed to shell out a sum that deserves to exceed Liberia’s GDP to buy a football team, I will celebrate or cry accordingly. By this time next week, my dream would possibly have come true. Or I can also just wander the streets aimlessly and sob in the rain. While a billionaire has my umbrella.
Update:
My newborn baby may look up at me slightly since word got out that Todd Boehly is the ‘preferred’ bidder and will most likely become Chelsea’s new owner. I don’t yet own a professional sports franchise, while Boehly, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Eldridge Industries, seems ready to move Chelsea up to his stakes in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers. After my band, in which I had no formal role, got rid of consideration, American Boehly is said to have managed to resist a last-minute challenge from Sir Jim Ratcliffe of Blighty, the chairman and chief executive. of the chemical company Ineos. Ratcliffe entered the race well past the access deadline with what might otherwise have turned out to be a groundbreaking $5. 3 billion offer. Reading him: “This is a British offer, for a British club. ” (It bears noting that English Premier League giants Arsenal, Manchester United, and Liverpool are owned by Americans. Oh, and Ratliff was founded in Monaco. ) someone else. the credit card is already stored in the wallet. Whatever the explanation for why he waited so long to join the fray, Ratcliffe is too far behind to ensnare Boehly in an all-out war to become my most productive new friend.
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