Rebirth

Chapter 389: Poor and Wonderful MLS

When one is actively seeking cooperation, and the other is a lazy person, there is free labor to come to the door, and naturally will not push away. Naturally, it is the Lang's concubine who is deliberate and embarrassed. Oh no, it hits it off.

Next, for a whole day, everyone began to plan for the future of Anschutz Entertainment Group. First of all, Century Center directly became an industry of Anschutz Company, and the company became Century-Anschutz Entertainment Group.Among them, the shares cannot be determined in a short time, and need to be confirmed by the final professionals.

The second point is to confirm the relevant team issues, which will be taken out separately and become independent assets in the hands of the big guys. For example, Anschutz will set up an independent sports company that will include the Kings’ shares and his own football in Colorado. The team and so on are drawn to their own sports company.

Similarly, Li Feng made his own request at this time and happily reached an agreement with Anschutz. All of the team shares in Los Angeles hope to be transferred to sports companies under his own name, such as the Los Angeles Kings ( puck).

Due to the layout of Anschutz in the past few years, he and the Lakers' Bath family have actually reached a preliminary agreement. The next part of the shares of the Lakers and the shares of the Wnba Sparks that are now being established may be Li Feng. Included in the bag, but Anshutz's coordination is needed.

The third point is that Li Feng began to deploy his own sports industry in the U.S. Empire. The four major sports leagues in the U.S. must have their own teams. This is Li Feng's vision.

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Taking into account his identity, Li Feng decided to wipe out the Los Angeles sports team.This is a weapon that can be used to force yourself, expand its influence, and preserve the value of its assets. As long as the Los Angeles team manages carefully, it will generally not lose money. This is the second largest city in the United States and one of the world's most famous entertainments. All, I have no reason not to participate.

After some understanding, I realized that there is no football team in Los Angeles, which is unimaginable.But it's not bad. The King's shares, Spark's shares and part of the Lakers' shares shouldn't be a big problem. This is what Anschutz said.

Football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey four major sports leagues, and finally Li Feng confirmed the Los Angeles Rams (football has moved out of Los Angeles), Los Angeles Dodgers (baseball), Los Angeles Kings (ice hockey) Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA), Los Angeles Lakers (part of the shares) Have become the target of their own sports company.

Just when Li Feng was planning his own sports kingdom, Alan Rothenberg couldn't sit still.

"Mr. Lee, don't you think you still need a major league professional football team? What do you think of the Los Angeles Galaxy?"

Well, after listening to the chairman of the Football Association, not only Li Feng was stunned, even if everyone else was a bit stunned.

What everyone thinks is, who doesn't know that the US is the desert of football. Now investing in football in the US is destined to be a loss-making business. This is not when Li Feng is being taken advantage of.

"John, I think you can think about it." Philip Anschutz's eyes lit up at this time, and he suggested with a smile.

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In fact, Li Feng was laughing in his heart at this time, but he has been waiting for the football boss to take the initiative.

Although for football, Li Feng only knows so many European teams, those stars, or the lace news about football stars and entertainment stars, such as those beautiful football babies, but football is after all The world's largest sport, Li Feng already had a draft in his mind.

"Alan, investing in football now is doomed to lose money. Look at the major league teams that started last year. Which one is not operating at a loss. I seem to remember that Philip has a hometown team. How about asking him? "Although I was very willing, he retorted with a smile.

Hearing what Li Feng said, and seeing everyone looking at him, Philip Anschutz couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly. Seeing Philip not replying but shook his head and smiled bitterly, Alan Rothenberg couldn't help but feel disappointed.

Although he was prepared in his heart, the president of the American Football Association could not help being disappointed when he really faced the reality.Naturally, no one knows the actual situation better than the president of the American Football Association.

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Before 1994, the U.S. had never heard of football at all. It was a very marginal sport. Thanks to the holding of the 94 World Cup, in order to seize the dividends of the World Cup, Alan, the football chairman, gave the The League promised to start preparations for the Major League Soccer before the 94 World Cup (93).

With the end of the World Cup, it has officially entered the stage of preparation and establishment. Unfortunately, although football has become popular during the World Cup, with the end of the World Cup, the American people once again pay attention to the four major sports leagues. As for English football, it is early. I don't know which corner I forgot to go to.

Due to the weak foundation of football in the continental United States and the lack of a football atmosphere, by 1996, the formation of the league was still facing considerable trouble.Businessmen were not optimistic about the status quo of the football industry and were unwilling to invest in the team. It was not until Philip Anschutz joined that the situation changed.

Anschutz's influence in the upper class is undoubtedly known by the Americans as the "investment gold finger". It was at that time that Anschutz became the owner of his hometown team, the Colorado Rapids Football Club.

At the beginning of 1996, there were only 10 teams, and they were very American. Like other sports leagues, there were no relegation. After all, there are only a few teams in the United States. .

In fact, no one knows at this time that the next major league development will be really hard. Among them, Anschutz has contributed the most. Without Anschutz's support, it is estimated that there would be no later major leagues and they would have disintegrated early.

Since the first major league league in 1996, due to the downturn in American football and the difficulties in major league operations, the team owners are very disappointed. Naturally, the enthusiasm for investing in football has disappeared, and they are facing a huge amount of money every year. Very few investors are willing to lose money.

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Before 2000, Anschutz successively took over the Chicago Fire and Los Angeles Galaxy; later, he took over the Washington DC United, New York Mets, and San Jose Earthquakes.

As a result, a strange situation that is rare in the history of world sports was born: among the dozen or so teams in the league, half of the clubs actually fought for Philip Anschutz.

During this period of time, although MLS (Major League Football) is developing, every club is losing money, and Anschutz, who owns several teams, has suffered huge losses, tens of millions of dollars in losses every year.

But it is precisely because of Anschutz's support that MLS can survive the hardships of its founding and grow up quickly. Philip Anschutz is known as the "MLS saver."

With the improvement of MLS development, Anschutz gradually sold five MLS teams, only retained the Los Angeles Galaxy team, and introduced the international superstar Beckham from Real Madrid for this favorite team.

Although he has paid huge expenses, it is said that Xiaobei's income has reached a return of 250 million US dollars in just a few years, but it has also been rewarded.

In the six seasons that Beckham played for the Los Angeles Galaxy, he brought two league championships to the Los Angeles Galaxy. At the same time, he also added unprecedented exposure to the league in the football desert of MLS, laying a foundation for the development of MLS. A good foundation.

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In order to repay Anschutz's contribution to MLS, Anschutz was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 2006 and won the National Football Medal of Honor.

In 2008, the MLS Championship trophy, named after the president of the United States Football Association Alan Rothenberg, was officially renamed the "Philip Schultz Cup."On the silver trophy raised by the championship team, Philip Anschutz's name represents the highest honor of American professional football.

Since its formal entry into the sports field in 1995, AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) has gradually become a giant in the sports field in 22 years, building a real sports empire.Its combination of capital and sports may be the ultimate sports industry that Philip Anschutz hopes to see.

Naturally, Li Feng doesn’t know what’s going on in the future. After all, this professional league is too far away from Li Feng in his previous life, and he has only heard of it because of Beckham, so he knows that the future development of the major league will count. Yes, the team can operate normally and be responsible for its own profits and losses.

In short, after some conversation with Alan Rothenberg, Li Feng reluctantly accepted the Los Angeles Galaxy team, which is a great joy for everyone.

The previous owner who invested in the Los Angeles Galaxy team is now ready to withdraw. There is no way. After a year of business, I found that operating a football team in the United States was a pit, and I didn’t see any future. In addition, my own strength was too bad and he didn’t lose money. I didn't want to play anymore.

In the original history, it was Philip Anschutz who was the receiver, but now because of Li Feng's intervention, the Galaxy team has entered a different history.