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🎉 Exciting Collaboration: FRAMEN and David Lloyd Clubs Exclusive Partnership 🎉 FRAMEN and David Lloyd Clubs have signed an exclusive two-year partnership covering seven European countries: Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Ireland. Curious to know more? Read the Engage article 👇 #LuxuryInventory #DOOH

APEX has joined the new investor group in Italian football club Venezia FC. Other members include Redwave Venture Partners and Chiron Sports Group. Football is one of the most popular sports globally, captivating millions of fans around the world. Recent years have seen increased private equity investments in top-tier clubs, with varying results. The involvement in Venezia FC Series A, which recently secured promotion back to Lega Serie A, highlights the commitment to investing in premier sports properties, emerging leagues, and opportunities where private equity can leverage industry resources and an active investment approach to drive operational success and enhance commercial strategies for sustainable financial growth. For more details, check out the full announcement Calcio e Finanza

A few months ago, Swiss Pro Promotion acquired a supermajority in Olbia Calcio 1905 Srl, a professional football club in Serie C. As the article below from Dealflower shows, private equity investors are zeroing in on the Italian football clubs. At SwissPro, we did, of course, our due diligence and have identified the Italian Serie C space as an attractive level to invest in. The sky is always the limit.   For us, football is local, it is played in a stadium in front of fans by players that live in the town. It takes a team, good players, lots of fans, and a top stadium, with a management that is financially disciplined and an investor to provide the resources both financially and non-financially, to create an economic environment that supports the club on its way to success.   Players and the team have the job of being ambitious, wanting to create wins and success, playing an exciting and entertaining style for the fans to enjoy, going home happily and coming back for the next game, and creating media channels that can communicate this emotion to online fans near and far.   In order for this to happen, a well-managed, resourced, respectful, and disciplined framework needs to be created.   It is important for private equity investors to come up with a vision that is realistic, inclusive, and respectful of the socio-economic environment in which the club operates. Private equity is often tied to terms like over-ambitious, distant, not connected, and imposing.   At SwissPro, when investing in Olbia Calcio, we also made a commitment to invest in the city, enter into a social contract with the community, and take responsibility, for the club to engage with the stakeholders: the fans, parents, youth, the people, the media, and commercial partners.   Financial and non-financial resources, respect, knowledge, and sporting ambition at the right dose, financial discipline, as well as engagement and commitment by SwissPro's and Olbia Calcio's management, are key ingredients for a sustainable long term development of Olbia Calcio.   The goals must be set high. On and off the football field. After all, football is about winning.   Everything else about Italian football and private equity you can read in the illustrative and well rounded article from Dealflower via the link below:   https://lnkd.in/dsSW2J5H #football #fussball #futbol #calcio #legapro #seriea #seriesb #seriesafunding

Sport is in good GOVERNANCE and STRATEGY mode LBB just attended last week the international SportAccord conference in UK and will be at the COC/CPC annual meeting where Canadian sport leaders gather. The trend : Sports organizations (SO) need and want to be better, more relevant and accountable through good governance and strategic planning. At LBB, we help SO be better and bolder via our good governance, sports law and strategy consultancy services. LBB makes sport better ! LBB Strategies (LBB Sport)

⚽️🤝 Chelsea Football Club has finally found an official sponsor! ⚽️🤝 The journey of Chelsea Football Club in search of a new shirt sponsor has been a rollercoaster ride. After leaving behind potential deals with Paramount and Stake due to league permissions and fan rejection, they launched their jersey for the 23/24 season without a sponsor. Just when there seemed to be no hope from the management, the Blues secured an impressive $50 million deal with Infinite Athlete, an emerging startup aiming to revolutionize sports through artificial intelligence. This startup is not a newcomer; they are already established in the National Football League (NFL) and have ambitions to shape how teams, athletes, companies, and fans interact with soccer globally. This highlights the growing relationship between technology and sports! It's an exciting era where non-traditional brands can have a significant impact, offering new perspectives and innovation. What are your opinions on technology companies entering the world of sports? #sportsmarketing #sportsbiz #sports #sportstech

Allenare per Principi Allenatori e Analisti Sportivi dovrebbero provare a raccogliere le informazioni in base a quello che osservano sul campo. La comprensione dei principi di gioco supporta gli allenatori nel migliorare le sessioni d'allenamento e i comportamenti tattici dei singoli e di squadra. [🇬🇧] Coaching by Principles Coaches and Sports Analysts should try to get information about what they observed on the pitch. The understanding of principles of play supports coaches to improve their training sessions and the tactical behaviour of the single player and the whole team. #coaching #footballcoach Clemente, F. M., Martins, F. M. L., Mendes, R. S., & Figueiredo, A. J. (2014). A systemic overview of football game: the principles behind the game. Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 9(2), 656-667.

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This is our love letter to Gabriele, a passionate amateur athlete and member of DYNAFIT's brand community. #Dynafit #GUURU #communityloveletter. 🙏 Thank you for helping so many with your first-hand advice on the Dynafit products, Gabriele. 💙 Nothing is quite like the experience-based advice you offer as such a passionate sportsperson. 🙌 Gabriele has only been a Dynafit Guuru for a year, but his live advice has been invaluable. Go to page 2 👇 and you’ll see why… #ecommerce #brandcommunity #brandadvocacy #brandadvocate #valentinesday

For anyone wanting to understand a bit more about French economics this is an interesting exemple: La Caisse des Depots et Consignations is in a word the State Bank (see: https://lnkd.in/e_4N-Q46). As per the below post, they created the Compagnie des Alpes (which consequently is backed up by the State)...Compagnie des Alpes manages the Ski lifts of most resorts in France...and has in the recent years expanded in all sorts of areas, buying private companies (estate agencies, syndics (which are building management companies), hospitality and now sport companies specialists of Padel boarding and indoor football...)...the comment below asks if this could be to open the door to new partners like Vail Resorts (see one of my previous posts)....could this be? Could effectively the French State associate with a large American company? culturally I would be interested to see...and how does this work in term of competition laws?...fascinating really...

⚽ Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) finds an abuse of dominant position by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC)   On 1 July 2024, the Italian Competition Authority fined the FIGC over 4M euro for an abuse of dominant position in the market for the organisation of competitive youth football competitions.   The Authority found that the FIGC, by virtue of the special and exclusive powers to regulate and coordinate the activity of football conferred on it by the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) concerning the organisation of competitive football competitions, a market in which it operates with a dominant position, has implemented a complex exclusionary strategy aimed, on the one hand, at strengthening its position in that market and, on the other, at extending it also to the amateur football market, and so is in breach of Article 102 TFEU.   This AGCM decision marks a first as part of the important shift towards a more stringent judicial review of Sports Governing Bodies’ regulations and decisions, following the judgments in the SuperLeague and ISU-case from December 2023. It could well be the first fine imposed on an SGB since those judgments, but certainly not the last!    📑 Read more about the AGCM’s decision here: https://lnkd.in/eVZ8jtpx   #ATFIELD #CompetitionLaw #AGCM #FIGC #SuperLeague #ISU #SportsGovernance