Post by Soccerhouse on Sept 16, 2014 8:54:31 GMT -5
For Sept 16 -
Here’s what’s going on in the soccer industry this morning…
Major League Soccer remains on course to sell Chivas USA by the end of this year and it may do so for a record price. However, time could be running out to put a rebranded team on the field in 2015 leaving the league to play its 20th season with only 20 clubs.
Harrison, New Jersey, regained its investment-grade rating from Moody’s Investors Service three years after it was cut to junk on debt related to Major League Soccer’s Red Bulls arena.
Former Barcelona soccer club directors, including ex-president Joan Laporta, are being sued over alleged financial losses following the team’s most successful season.
The Premier League average attendance across the league for Week 4 was 38,810. This is a 16.39% increase from Week 3′s 32,451 and brought the average attendance for the season up 2.9% to 35,780.
MLS week 27 average attendance is 17,460. The regular season average has decreased 0.35% to 18,818 from 18,884 last week. Stadiums were 79.86% filled throughout the week, remaining at 84.68% of capacity for the season.
Premier League side Stoke City have announced a unique initiative in North America, as the Potters will link up with several youth sides in the USA and Canada.
Gus Johnson has stepped down as Fox’s No.1 soccer broadcaster. Johnson last week called Fox Sports President & COO Eric Shanks and said that he could not give soccer the attention it deserved and that viewers demanded of a lead broadcaster.
FIFA is investigating whether any ethics rules were broken when members of its executive committee received commemorative watches from sponsors of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) at the World Cup.
FIFA has temporarily suspended a member of its financial watchdog after he was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in his native Cayman Islands.
Majority of the council supports a subsidy for building a soccer stadium, according to DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
- See more at: www.businessofsoccer.com/2014/09/16/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-soccer-industry-this-morning-217/#sthash.vES3KJA2.dpuf
Here’s what’s going on in the soccer industry this morning…
Major League Soccer remains on course to sell Chivas USA by the end of this year and it may do so for a record price. However, time could be running out to put a rebranded team on the field in 2015 leaving the league to play its 20th season with only 20 clubs.
Harrison, New Jersey, regained its investment-grade rating from Moody’s Investors Service three years after it was cut to junk on debt related to Major League Soccer’s Red Bulls arena.
Former Barcelona soccer club directors, including ex-president Joan Laporta, are being sued over alleged financial losses following the team’s most successful season.
The Premier League average attendance across the league for Week 4 was 38,810. This is a 16.39% increase from Week 3′s 32,451 and brought the average attendance for the season up 2.9% to 35,780.
MLS week 27 average attendance is 17,460. The regular season average has decreased 0.35% to 18,818 from 18,884 last week. Stadiums were 79.86% filled throughout the week, remaining at 84.68% of capacity for the season.
Premier League side Stoke City have announced a unique initiative in North America, as the Potters will link up with several youth sides in the USA and Canada.
Gus Johnson has stepped down as Fox’s No.1 soccer broadcaster. Johnson last week called Fox Sports President & COO Eric Shanks and said that he could not give soccer the attention it deserved and that viewers demanded of a lead broadcaster.
FIFA is investigating whether any ethics rules were broken when members of its executive committee received commemorative watches from sponsors of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) at the World Cup.
FIFA has temporarily suspended a member of its financial watchdog after he was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in his native Cayman Islands.
Majority of the council supports a subsidy for building a soccer stadium, according to DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
- See more at: www.businessofsoccer.com/2014/09/16/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-soccer-industry-this-morning-217/#sthash.vES3KJA2.dpuf
