Global football finance and investments.
By FootballCapitalist.com Michele Kang is executing one of the most ambitious strategies in global sport: building the first multi-club empire dedicated exclusively to women’s football. Her approach blends entrepreneurial discipline with capital deployment at a scale rarely seen in the women’s game, positioning her as a central figure in its commercial future. From Tech Entrepreneur … Read more
Three years ago, Major League Soccer and Apple TV announced what was hailed as a landmark: a 10-year, $2.5 billion media rights deal that would redefine how American soccer was consumed.
Youth soccer is evolving into a global industry with measurable economic impact, cultural significance, and geopolitical weight. The market for youth sports is projected to grow from USD 37.98 billion in 2024 to USD 63.84 billion by 2033, with soccer as the dominant driver. Case studies from Aspire Academy (Qatar), Right to Dream (Ghana), and La Masia (Barcelona) illustrate how different models—state-backed, grassroots, and club-integrated—are shaping the future of football. Crucially, the thousands of grassroots clubs in cities like Barcelona, Madrid, and Rotterdam form the hidden infrastructure that sustains participation and talent development. Over the next decade…
Arthur Blank is an American billionaire businessman best known as the co-founder of The Home Depot and the owner of several major sports teams in Atlanta, including the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and MLS’s Atlanta United FC.
The World Cup is a once-in-a-cycle economic accelerant. FIFA’s joint analysis with the WTO projects the 2025 Club World Cup and the 2026 World Cup will add a combined $62 billion to global GDP, with 290,000 jobs created in the U.S. alone—numbers that underline how costly it is to be on the outside looking in. For Costa Rica, Honduras, and Trinidad & Tobago, missing the tournament is not just a sporting setback; it’s a shock to advertising markets, tourism receipts, sponsorship, and the game’s informal economy. In a region where football is a commercial engine and a cultural export, the hit is measurable—and painful.
From Hollywood to the Bernabéu: How CAA leveraged Ronaldo, Mendes, and Polaris to turn footballers into global advertising assets. European football has always been a theater of ambition, money, and spectacle. But in 2015, a quiet deal redefined the power game: Cristiano Ronaldo — then at the peak of his Real Madrid fame — signed … Read more
