The NFL may quickly launch knowledgeable ladies’s flag soccer league.
The brand new league would doubtless purpose to help the game’s long-term development, and it may be backed by some high-profile traders. Tennis icon Serena Williams and her husband and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, by way of their 776 funding agency, are in talks with the NFL in regards to the enterprise, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
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Flag soccer is taken into account a worldwide sport and is performed in roughly 100 nations. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Photos)
The NFL is reportedly weighing at the very least 10 proposals, together with TKO Group Holdings, former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital Group and companions Ice Dice and Jeff Kwatinetz.
TKO is a conglomerate created by Endeavor, which resulted from the 2023 merger between WWE and UFC.
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The Michael Strahan-backed media firm SMAC Leisure, in addition to Join Ventures, have additionally submitted pitches to the league, per Bloomberg. Join Ventures was shaped by way of a partnership between expertise and sports activities company Artistic Artists Company (CAA) and enterprise agency New Enterprise Associates.
The NFL may quickly launch knowledgeable ladies’s flag soccer league. (Megan Briggs/Getty Photos)
The NFL has lengthy supported the expansion and momentum of flag soccer, significantly youth participation within the sport. The league’s NFL Flag initiative has supplied funding for the game for a number of years.
Flag soccer is anticipated to be featured within the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles. Nonetheless, it stays unclear whether or not energetic NFL gamers will probably be permitted to take part within the Video games.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the eye flag soccer is receiving at this week’s annual conferences in Florida.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the eye flag soccer is receiving at this week’s annual conferences in Florida. (Ethan Miller/Getty Photos)
“It’s clear there’s numerous curiosity in a professional flag league,” Goodell stated throughout a press convention. Goodell additionally confirmed the league has obtained proposals from potential traders.
Goodell additionally mentioned professional flag soccer throughout February’s Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans.
Not one of the potential events instantly responded to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark. Data relating to the required quantity for an funding within the potential new league was not made obtainable.
Tennis icon Serena Williams and her husband and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, by way of their 776 funding agency, are in talks with the NFL in regards to the enterprise. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Flag soccer is taken into account a worldwide sport and is performed in roughly 100 nations.
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There are 14 U.S. states which have sanctioned ladies’s flag soccer at the highschool degree, making it a varsity sport. A restricted variety of faculties have official ladies’s flag soccer groups.
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