- Bob Iger is now a controlling proprietor of the Los Angeles-based Angel Metropolis FC.
- Iger and his spouse Willow Bay reached a take care of the soccer franchise price $250 million.
- The deal is a win for the star-studded possession group of the membership.
Bob Iger and Willow Bay are the brand new majority house owners of Angel Metropolis FC.
Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Firm, and his spouse Bay, a journalist and the USC Annenberg College for Communication and Journalism dean, have agreed to buy a controlling stake within the Los Angeles-based franchise at a valuation of $250 million, the membership mentioned.
The deal makes Angel Metropolis FC essentially the most worthwhile ladies’s sports activities staff on the earth, and the couple will make investments an additional $50 million into the membership.
“It is really an historic second in sports activities and an historic second for girls’s sports activities,” Bay instructed ESPN.
“I believe to be a part of the staff, to be a part of the long run trajectory of this staff, this sport and ladies’s sports activities, is extremely thrilling,” she added.
Iger and Bay are becoming a member of a slate of recognizable names within the possession group, together with actors Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain, and a number of other former US Ladies’s Nationwide staff gamers.
Enterprise capitalist and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian is among the founding traders of Angel Metropolis FC. In 2020, his daughter with tennis star Serena Williams turned the youngest staff proprietor in skilled sports activities at 2 years previous.
“Evidently, we’re simply getting began and I could not ask for higher companions than Willow & Bob who may have the board management essential to be true management house owners,” Ohanian mentioned in a publish on X. “I am excited to proceed to serve on the board and assist this staff within the new chapter.”
