Tom Brady becomes minority owner of English club Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — NFL nice Tom Brady has grow to be a minority proprietor of English second-tier soccer crew Birmingham and needs to convey a successful mentality to an underperforming membership.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion has partnered with the membership’s holding firm, U.S.-based Knighthead Capital Management, and turns into chairman of a brand new advisory board, Brady and Birmingham mentioned Thursday.
“Maybe you are asking, ‘What do you know about English football, Tom?’” Brady mentioned in a membership video. “Well, let’s simply say I’ve acquired quite a bit to be taught. But I do know just a few issues about successful.”
Birmingham mentioned Brady will “apply his in depth management expertise and experience throughout a number of elements of the membership.” That consists of working alongside the sports activities science division to advise on well being, diet and restoration packages.
“Birmingham is an iconic membership with a lot historical past and fervour and to be a part of the Blues is an actual honour for me,” Brady mentioned.
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Birmingham final performed within the Premier League in 2011, the identical 12 months it received the English League Cup — one in all two main trophies the membership has captured in its 148-year historical past.
Brady joins a lot of different American sports activities stars to spend money on English soccer golf equipment.
Former NFL participant J.J. Watt just lately turned a minority investor in Burnley, which has simply been promoted to the Premier League, whereas PGA Tour golfers Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas have mentioned they are going to be minority homeowners of Leeds after investing in 49ers Enterprises, which is within the means of taking on the second-tier crew.
Basketball star LeBron James has been a part-owner of Liverpool since 2011 due to a small stake within the membership.
Brady has partnered with Knighthead Capital on a number of different ventures and the membership’s new chairman, Tom Wagner, is wanting ahead to Brady’s “direct affect.”
“Tom Brady becoming a member of the Birmingham crew is an announcement of intent. We are setting the bar at world class,” Wagner mentioned. “Tom is each investing and committing his time and in depth experience.”
“The goal,” Wagner added, “that Tom has committed to own is to make Birmingham a respected leader in nutrition, health, wellness, and recovery across the world of football.”
Brady received six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and one other with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021.
He retired in February, after Tampa’s loss within the playoffs.
Under Birmingham’s new possession, former Manchester City chief govt Garry Cook has taken up the identical position and Hope Powell, the previous coach of England’s girls’s crew, has been employed as girls’s technical director.
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