004 Poor weird MLS

When one takes the initiative to seek cooperation, and the other is a lazy person, with free labor coming to the door, naturally he will not push it away, and naturally Lang has a concubine who is intentional and embarrassed, oh no, it is a hit.

Next, for a whole day, everyone began to plan for the future of Anschütz Entertainment Group, first of all, Century Center directly became the industry of Anschutz Company, and the company became Century-Anschütz Entertainment Group. Among them, what shares can not be determined in a short time, and it needs to be statistically confirmed by professionals.

The second point is to confirm the issue of the team, which will be taken out separately and become an independent asset in the hands of the bigwigs, such as Anschutz will set up an independent sports company, including the shares of the Kings, and his own football team in Colorado, etc., to his own sports company.

Similarly, Li Feng made his own request at this time, and he and Anschutz also happily reached an agreement, and the stake in the team in Los Angeles was transferred to a sports company under his name, such as the Los Angeles Kings (ice hockey).

Due to Anschutz's layout in the past few years, he and the Lakers' Bass family have actually reached a preliminary agreement, and the next shares, including part of the Lakers' shares, and the shares of the NBA Sparks that are now being established, may be pocketed by Li Feng, but Anschutz needs to coordinate from it.

The third point is that Li Feng began to lay out his sports industry in the United States, and the four major sports leagues of the United States must have their own teams, which is Li Feng's vision.

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Considering his identity, Li Feng decided to wipe out the Los Angeles sports team. This is a weapon that can not only be used to force itself, but also to expand its influence, but also to preserve the value of assets, as long as the Los Angeles team is carefully operated, it will generally not lose money, this is the second largest city in the United States, the world's famous entertainment capital, there is no reason not to participate in it.

After some understanding, I realized that Los Angeles did not have a football team, which is unimaginable. But it's okay, the Kings' shares, Sparks' shares, and a portion of the Lakers' shares, shouldn't be a big problem, that's what Anschutz said.

Rugby, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey are the four major sports leagues, and finally Li Feng confirmed that the Los Angeles Rams (rugby has moved out of Los Angeles), Los Angeles Dodgers (baseball), Los Angeles Kings (ice hockey), Los Angeles Sparks (NBA), and Los Angeles Lakers (part of the shares) have all become the targets of his sports company.

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

"Mr. Lee, don't you think you still need a professional football team in the major leagues, what do you think of the LA Galaxy?"

Well, after listening to the words of the chairman of the Football Association, not only Li Feng was stunned, but even the rest of the people were a little stunned.

What everyone thinks is that who doesn't know that the United States is a desert of English football, and now investing in English football in the United States is destined to be a loss-making business.

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

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

Although Li Feng only knows about football, there are only a few teams in Europe, those stars, or the lace news about football stars and entertainment stars, such as those glamorous football babes or something, but after all, football is the world's number one sport, and Li Feng has long had a draft in his heart.

"Alain, investing in football is destined to be a loss-making business, you 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, ask him how he is?"

After listening to Li Feng's words and seeing that everyone was looking at him, Philip Anschutz couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, seeing that Philip didn't reply but shook his head and smiled bitterly, Alan Rotenberg couldn't help but be disappointed.

Although he was already prepared in his heart, when he really faced the reality, the president of the American imperialist football association couldn't help but be disappointed. Naturally, there is no better understanding of the actual situation in English football than the president of the Football Association.

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Before 94 years, the United States imperialist actually did not hear of any English football, it is a very marginal sport, thanks to the holding of the 94 World Cup, in order to seize the dividends of the World Cup, Alain, the football chairman, promised FIFA that it would start preparing for the football major league before the 94 World Cup (93).

With the end of the World Cup, it has officially entered the stage of preparation and establishment, but unfortunately, although football became popular during the World Cup, with the end of the World Cup, the American imperialist people once again went to pay attention to the events of the four major sports leagues.

Due to the weak foundation of football in the continental United States and the lack of football atmosphere, by 1996, the formation of the league was still facing a lot of trouble. Businessmen were reluctant to invest in the football industry, and it wasn't until Philippe Anschutz joined that the situation changed.

Anschutz's influence in high society is undeniable, and he is known as the "investment finger" by Americans, and it is at that time that Anschutz became the owner of his hometown team, Colorado Rapids Football Club.

At the beginning of '96, there were only 10 teams, and they were very American, like other sports leagues, there were no relegations, after all, there were only a few teams in the United States, and if they were to be divided into levels, then simply don't play.

In fact, no one knew at this time that the next major league development was really hard, of which Anschutz had the greatest credit, if there was no Anschutz's support, it is estimated that there would be no later major leagues, and it would have disintegrated long ago.

Since the first major league league in 96, due to the recession of the football atmosphere of the United States and the difficulties in the operation of the major leagues, the owners of those teams are very disappointed, naturally, the enthusiasm for investing in football is gone, and few investors are willing to face huge losses every year.

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Before 2000, Anschütz took over the Chicago Fire and the Los Angeles Galaxy, and later took over the Washington D.C. Union, the New York Mets Stars, and the San Jose Earthquakes.

The result was a strange situation that is very rare in the history of world sports: half of the more than 10 teams in the league are fighting for Philippe Anschutz.

During this time, although the MLS (Major League Soccer) was developing, every club was losing money, and Anschutz, who owned several teams, lost a lot of money, losing tens of millions of dollars a year.

But it is precisely because of Anschutz's support that MLS was able to survive the hardships of the initial establishment and grow rapidly, and Philip Anschutz was hailed as the "MLS savior".

As the MLS situation improved, Anschütz gradually sold five MLS teams, retaining only the LA Galaxy, and brought in international superstar David Beckham from Real Madrid for this preferred team.

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

In his six seasons with the LA Galaxy, he brought two league championships to the LA Galaxy team, and also added unprecedented exposure to the MLS, a league in the football desert, and laid a good foundation for the development of MLS.

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In return for his contribution to the MLS, Anschutz was inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 2006 and received the National Football Medal of Honor.

In 2008, the MLS Championship Trophy, named after Alan Rotenberg, President of the United States Soccer Association, was officially renamed the "Philip Schultz Cup". On the silver trophy lifted by the champion team, the name of Philip Anschutz represents the highest honor in American professional football.

Since its official foray into the sports field in 1995, AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) has gradually become a giant in the field of sports in 22 years, building a true sports empire. Its attitude of combining capital and sports may be the ultimate in the sports industry that Philippe Anschutz wants to see.

Naturally, Li Feng doesn't know about this future, after all, this professional major league was too far away from Li Feng in his previous life, and he has heard about it because of Xiaobei, so he knows that the future major league will develop well, and the team can operate normally and be responsible for its own profits and losses.

In short, after a conversation with Alan Rotenberg, Li Feng reluctantly accepted the Los Angeles Galaxy, which was a great joy.

It turned out that the owner of the Los Angeles Galaxy team who had invested in the LA Galaxy team was now ready to withdraw, but after a year of operation, he found that running a football team in the United States was a pit, and he couldn't see any future, and his strength was too poor to lose money, so he didn't want to play.

Originally, Philip Anschütz was the receiver, but now because of Li Feng's intervention, the Galaxy team has entered a different history.