Category: Soccer (Page 5 of 6)

In addition to myfootballclub and Save the Victory, there are a couple of other options out there if you want to get a piece of a soccer club.

Fan Power points to myBUFC and BuyaClub.co.uk. MyBUFC is trying to buy a low level club in England. The advantage is they only need 5,000 investors (instead of 50,000 at myfootballclub and at most 20,000 with Save the Victory. The level of entry is also lower at about $50 for their non-league club, compared to about $70 at myfootballcub and $100 Save the Victory.

BuyaClub seems to be an almost exact copy as myfootballclub, but they’re having a harder time getting people on board. Probably because they’re asking for the money up front.

Some have the word that the Seattle is getting the next new MLS team for 2009.

Yipppee!

The strange note that our USL Sounders (currently playing for the league championship on Saturday) will take off 2008 makes me think their current owner will be involved, so you could say this is a promotion of the Sounders.

Over at Crosscut, Peter Miller reminds of why soccer is good:

There are no intermissions, no TV-commercial breaks. There are refs wagging a finger and players mocking an opponent, there are acts of cunning and of cruelty, there are no free throws nor flags, no coach is even allowed on the pitch. The hope is that the flow can be sustained and kept, that both sides try their most brilliant and improvised sense of possible and near impossible. It is as if motion itself shall unfold the better and reveal the very fact of which club can venture furthest into a complexity that has no rival nor peer, and in the end to score.

I’m going up to the Huskies game this Saturday, so I’m going to miss the Sounders, which is totally bumming me out. I’ll wear my ECS t-shirt under my Husky stuff though.

I was surprised that since the launch of Save the Victory (wrote about it over the weekend) that they hadn’t gotten much attention. Either they weren’t talking about it to anyone outside the online soccer world or no one has thought it was interesting that someone is trying to establish the FIRST fan owned sports franchise in the United States.

But, today there were two items. Salinas Californian:

The Victory came into being in the spring under the auspices of Spanish second-division team Deportivo Alaves. However Chairman Dmitry Piterman recently sold his interest in Alaves, which had racked up $30 million in debt. The sale technically left the Victory ownerless and in limbo.

That’s when the 1906 stepped in. USL started looking for investors, but fans didn’t like leaving their team’s fate in hands of others. The supporters’ do-it-yourself attitude is displayed proudly on the Web site. “Everything with this team has been ‘do it yourself'” Alonso said. “Our shirts and jerseys, raising money – ‘do it yourself.””

My Soccer Blog:

Admit it, at some point in your life you thought about owner a profession soccer team, but with the millions it takes to get involved with the MLS and billions it takes to be a player overseas, you never thought it would happen. But wait, if you have an extra $100, your dream can come true.

Last year there was a great deal of excitement when San Francisco was awarded a USL-First Division team. Even better yet, Dmitry Piterman, chairman of Spanish club Deportivo Alavésk, was announced as owner, making the California Victory the ‘first European owned team to compete in any level of the United Soccer Leagues.’