Ask Andy Kohlberg, one of the American owners of Spanish club Mallorca along with NBA greats Steve Kerr and Steve Nash, if he recommends soccer club...
Ask Andy Kohlberg , one of the American owners of Spanish club Mallorca along with NBA greats Steve Kerr and Steve Nash , if he recommends soccer club-ownership in Europe, and he’ll give you a straight answer.“It’s very hard. It’s very different than running a normal business, and especially in another country, dealing with the difference in culture and language and customs,” says Kohlberg, a former professional tennis player who is Mallorca ’s main shareholder and its president.
The Copa success also helps show that Mallorca is on the right track despite the early struggles for the club, whose main goal in recent years has been to remain in Spain’s top-flight. “When the team loses, they call me and ask, ‘What are you doing?’” Kohlberg joked about Nash's and Kerr's involvement with the club.
Nash, Holden and La Saux are expected to be at La Cartuja Stadium for Saturday’s final. Nash and Holden were caught on camera wildly celebrating the club’s promotion to the first division in 2019. One of the reasons the Americans picked Mallorca was because it’s based on a tourist island that attracts some 13 million visitors every year.
Mallorca has a budget of nearly 70 million euros , and the American owners are believed to have invested more than $100 million in the club since they arrived. “We want to solidify our position in the first division and keep growing so we can comfortably stay in the top half of the standings every season,” Díaz says. “Right now, we still work with two parallel budgets, one for if we play in the first division and another if we are relegated.”
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