Brera Holdings Comments on Top-Level Italian Professional Football Team Acquisition Reports
April 22 2024 - 12:44PM
Brera Holdings PLC ("Brera Holdings," "Brera" or the "Company")
(Nasdaq: BREA) has been asked to respond to several third-party
publications that have reported on Brera’s efforts to acquire a
top-level Italian professional football (soccer) team.
Brera Holdings CEO, Pierre Galoppi, stated, "In
January 2024, we announced that we would begin the process of
acquiring a team in the Italian Serie BKT, managed by Lega
Nazionale Professionisti Serie B ("Serie B"). We can confirm at
this time that we have initiated and are well along on this process
with several top caliber and storied teams. In compliance with
confidentiality agreements signed with these organizations and with
applicable laws, we are not in the position to comment on the
latest third-party statements about Brera’s initiative."
"We remain true to our word and agreements and will
be delighted to provide a complete announcement as soon as we are
legally in a position to do so," Mr. Galoppi concluded.
ABOUT BRERA HOLDINGS PLC
Brera Holdings PLC (Nasdaq: BREA) is focused on
expanding its social impact football (American soccer) business by
developing a global portfolio of emerging football and other sports
clubs with increased opportunities to earn tournament prizes, gain
sponsorships, and provide other professional football- and
sports-related consulting services.
The Company seeks to build on the legacy and brand
of Brera FC, the first football club that was acquired by the
Company in 2022. Brera FC, known as "The Third Team of Milan," is
an amateur football association which has been building an
alternative football legacy since its founding in 2000. The Company
owns the trademarked FENIX Trophy Tournament, a nonprofessional
pan-European football competition recognized by UEFA, inaugurated
in September 2021 and organized by Brera FC. "FENIX" is an acronym
for "Friendly European Nonprofessional Innovative Xenial." BBC
Sport has called the FENIX Trophy "the Champions League for
amateurs," and Brera FC hosted the 2023 finals at Milan's legendary
San Siro Stadium. In October 2022, the Internet Marketing
Association at its IMPACT 22 Conference named Brera FC as its award
recipient for "Social Impact Through Soccer," recognizing the
Company's focus at an international level with this
distinction.
In March 2023, the Company expanded to Africa with
the establishment of Brera Tchumene FC, a team then admitted to the
Second Division League in Mozambique, a country of nearly 32
million people. Brera Tchumene FC won its post-season tournament
and in November 2023 was promoted to Mocambola, the First Division
in Mozambique. In April 2023, the Company acquired 90% of the
European first division football team Fudbalski Klub Akademija
Pandev in North Macedonia, a country with participation rights in
two major Union of European Football Association ("UEFA")
competitions.
In June 2023, Brera acquired a strategic stake in
Manchester United PLC, a portion of which was subject to a tender
offer by Sir Jim Radcliffe and sold at a 74% realized gain. In July
2023, the Company completed the acquisition of a majority ownership
in the Italian Serie A1 women's professional volleyball team UYBA
Volley S.s.d.a.r.l. In September 2023, the Company assumed control
of Bayanzurkh Sporting Ilch FC, a team in the Mongolian National
Premier League, which became Brera Ilch FC when the football season
resumed in March 2024.
In January 2024, the Company announced the launch
of a proactive search for an Italian Serie B football club target
designed to bring multi-club ownership of the highest tiers of
professional sports ownership to mass investors through the
Company's Nasdaq-listed shares. In February 2024 the Brera Holdings
Advisory Board was established with MLS founder and World Cup
director Alan Rothenberg, luxury lifestyle executive Massimo
Ferragamo, sports business leaders Paul Tosetti and Marshall
Geller, and Italian football icon Giuseppe Rossi. Brera Holdings
PLC is focused on bottom-up value creation from undervalued sports
clubs and talent, innovation powered business growth, and
socially-impactful outcomes. See www.breraholdings.com
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains forward-looking
statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties.
Such statements include statements regarding the Company's ability
to grow its business and other statements that are not historical
facts, including statements which may be accompanied by the words
"intends," "may," "will," "plans," "expects," "anticipates,"
"projects," "predicts," "estimates," "aims," "believes," "hopes,"
"potential" or similar words. Actual results could differ
materially from those described in these forward-looking statements
due to a number of factors, including without limitation, the
Company's ability to continue as a going concern, the popularity
and/or competitive success of the Company's acquired football and
other sports teams, the Company's ability to attract players and
staff for acquired clubs, unsuccessful acquisitions or other
strategic transactions, the possibility of a decline in the
popularity of football or other sports, the Company's ability to
expand its fanbase, sponsors and commercial partners, general
economic conditions, and other risk factors detailed in the
Company's filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release are made as of the date of this
press release, and the Company does not undertake any
responsibility to update such forward-looking statements except in
accordance with applicable law.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
FOR MEDIA AND INVESTOR RELATIONS
Pierre Galoppi, Chief Executive Officer Brera
Holdings PLC Email: pierre@breraholdings.com
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