Serena Williams is about to attend the Girls’s FA Cup closing after her husband and Reddit co-founder Alexia Ohanian purchased a reported 10% stake in Chelsea ladies.
Ohanian, who has invested in ladies’s groups like Angel Metropolis previously, has purchased a stake regarded as price £20m, that means the membership worth is at £200m.
It has been reported he shall be at Wembley along with his spouse and tennis star Serena this Sunday as Chelsea tackle Manchester United of their hunt for the treble.
Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian: How did the funding come about?
Ohanian introduced his funding on Wednesday holding a Chelsea shirt with each his daughters names on the again.
He additionally appeared to endorse the funding determine as he quoted a bit from The Instances in his announcement that referenced the ten% stake.
He stated: “I’ve wager large on ladies’s sports activities earlier than—and I’m doing it once more. I am proud to announce that I am becoming a member of @ChelseaFCW as an investor and board member.
“I am honoured for the prospect to assist this iconic membership turn out to be America’s favorite @BarclaysWSL staff and far, way more.
“These gamers are rewriting the sport. Undefeated season. Eyes on the treble. However this isn’t nearly profitable titles. It’s about lastly matching their expertise with the assets, visibility, and respect they deserve. I’ve been proper about this earlier than, and I could not be extra excited.
“And you understand we obtained the complete household READY. Thanks to @AkiMandhar, our membership President, and her staff for the care bundle — her integrity and deal with an ordinary of excellence have been an enormous consider why this was such a “Hell Sure”-type funding.”
Up to now, he has invested in Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League membership Angel Metropolis, in addition to investing a few of his daughters’ belief funds within the staff.
That made his daughters the youngest homeowners in skilled sport. He’s additionally the proprietor of LA golf membership.
Chelsea had an invincible Girls’s Tremendous League season this marketing campaign and have already received the League Cup.
They have been knocked out of the Girls’s Champions League by holders Barcelona within the semi-finals, so the quadruple is not doable.
However a home treble is on the playing cards, and in the event that they declare it, they’d accomplish that for simply the second time of their historical past. The one time Chelsea has received the treble was within the 2020/21 season.
