Angel City Football Club and Principal owner of the Los Angeles Golf Club, Alexis Ohian, are watching with Olympic superintendent Gabbi Thomas during the Women's Sports Summit business offered at Chelsea Factory on April 23, 2024 in New York City on April 23, 2024.
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reddit Co -Founder Alexis Ohian has purchased minority shares in Chelsea FC Women, from which he gives shares of ownership in two highly valuable teams in women's sports.
According to the person familiar with the deal, the founder of the Venture Capital Firm's Seven Six and the husband of tennis legend Serena Williams paid £ 20m for 10 % shares in the English football team. Ohian National Women's Soccer League's Angel City FC as well as a part owner Disney CEO Bob Egger and his wife, Willow Bay.
According to the acquaintance, Ohian's Chelsea Dale values £ 200m to the Women's Club, making it the world's most valuable women's team based on the current foreign exchange rates. As part of the contract, Ohian will be given a seat on the team's board.
“I've made a big bet on women's sports before – and I'm doing it again,” Ohanian said in a post on the social media site X.
Chelsea FC women have won six women's Super League titles. Ohian says he is seeing the opportunity to grow worldwide in women's football.
Chelsea FC women gifted Alexis Ohian's daughters jerseys.
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“I believe that Chelsea FC is the next world women's sports brand,” he said.
Ohian left Reddet in 2020 to focus on making his two young daughters inheritance through sports and other investments.
He said that in 2024 he invested 000 250,000 from the Trust Fund of his daughters in Angel City FC. Ohan said that this investment made him the youngest owner in professional sports and multi -million leaves.
Williams also recently became part of the WNBA extension team Toronto Tempo, and Ohian has started a women's track competition.
