With the New Year looming, here are a couple of quick hits to take you through the holiday and the weekend. Turnkey Sports published a poll that questioned 1,100 senior sports executives from professional and collegiate sports about an array of year end questions. Some interesting soccer notes: 1. 6.76% of the polled execs believe [...]
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During the course of the year we focused our attention on the business of bringing fans to Major League Soccer. The most popular post in that series was our interview with Messrs. Goff, Ives and Davis. Check below for that interview and click through the link to follow the rest of our series. As part [...]
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Sports Business Daily is reporting that MLS has sued tool manufacturer Black & Decker over an alleged “ambush marketing campaign” by B&D division DeWalt. MLS fans know that competing tool company Makita is a long time MLS sponsor, and the suit alleges that DeWalt improperly used MLS logs and materials to “confuse” hispanic fans into [...]
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On a few occasions during 2009, we have discussed soccer stories that are legal rather than business related. Because of sponsorships, contracts, television broadcast rights and a whole host of other reasons, the business and law are closely related in the sports world. Here then, are our top American Soccer legal stories of the year. [...]
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Over the course of the season we interviewed a number of MLS marketing execs, COOs and more. Check out this interview with Alex Gallegos of Chivas and click through the links to see some of our other chats. Did MLS teams accomplish their marketing goals? Judge for your self. In a year in which most [...]
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There are stadium updates aplenty as we look around Major League Soccer this week. Here are a couple of quick hits from the world of soccer specific stadium construction. In Vancouver, the Whitecaps have announced that they will play the first half of their inaugural season in a temporary stadium while BC place (their permanent [...]
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It’s the time on the calendar when we take a look back at the year that was. We will have a few of these retrospectives over the next week, but the big story in American Soccer for 2009 was the introduction of the Seattle Sounders to MLS. The crowds kept coming (they grew), the local [...]
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We have repeatedly written about the Wizards’ effort to find a permanent stadium home. After months of negotiations and competition, the Wizards have announced that they will break ground on their new stadium in Kansas. Kansas and the local county have offered $230 million in incentives to lure Cerner and the Wizards to Kansas. In [...]
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Congratulations to Ohad Zeira for winning the T-Shirt graciously provided by Tshirtsville.com Ohad combined humor and business in providing the winning caption for the photo below. In a few weeks we will run our next contest. Thanks again to Tshirtsville for providing Ohad with a free T-shirt. “The Curtin Air campaign just didn’t fly with [...]
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It’s the holiday season, so as a thank you to our readers, we are running our first contest here at Footiebusiness.com (there will be more coming). The good folks at TShirtsville.com have kindly offered the winner of our contest the choice of any of their short-sleeve shirts shipped to their home. We thought about doing [...]
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