LAFC Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership With Zurich FC As Tata Martino Releases Squad List For El Salvador Friendly
Written by Patrick Echatah
With Grasshopper Club Zürich of the Swiss Super League, LAFC formally established a long-term strategic alliance. As part of the collaboration, LAFC will now own a majority stake in Grasshopper Football Ltd. The Club will continue to have a partial ownership held by Grasshopper Fussball Stiftung.
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“We are so excited to partner with GC Zürich,” LAFC Co-President & CBO Larry Freedman said. “Grasshopper Club Zürich is an iconic brand in both Swiss and European football, with an incredible tradition of success and a foundation built on developing top-level talent. LAFC is honored to work together on this long-term partnership with the GC Zürich community and all the supporters as we begin our collaboration.”
GC Zürich, one of Switzerland’s most illustrious clubs, was established in 1886 and has won a record 27 Swiss Championships and 19 Swiss Cups. Talent development has always been a key component of our success and will remain so going forward as a strategic pillar of our collaboration.
“We warmly welcome LAFC to GC Zürich,” Member of the GCZ Supervisory Board (Verwaltungsrat) András Gurovits said. “In our initial talks and throughout all of our discussions, we feel confident that this long-term partnership will move this special Club in the right direction.”
Since entering the MLS in 2018, LAFC has emerged as one of the league’s most successful clubs, taking home the Supporters’ Shield in 2019 and 2022 along with the 2022 MLS Cup. LAFC progressed to the MLS Cup and Concacaf Champions League finals in 2023.
The collaboration with GC Zürich is in line with LAFC’s worldwide objective of creating successful teams by offering exceptional venues for the advancement of outstanding youth talent.
As part of its ongoing worldwide brand expansion, LAFC invested in FC Wacker Innsbruck in Austria and established Red&Gold Football in 2023 as a joint venture with FC Bayern München to nurture talent in regions like South America and Africa.
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Meanwhile…
The 2024 Inter Miami preseason is about to begin. The Herons’ more than 25,000-mile preseason journey will begin with a match against the national team of El Salvador.
The club announced the players heading to Central America on January 17. Cole Jensen and CJ dos Santos are in goal. Jordi Alba, Noah Allen, Tomás Avilés, Chris McVey, Ryan Sailor, Sergii Kryvtsov, and DeAndre Yedlin are the players on defence.
Manager Tata Martino has chosen Gregore, Julian Gressel, David Ruiz, Robert Taylor, Lawson Sunderland, Gregore, Benjamin Cremaschi, and Facundo Farías for the midfield. Leonardo Campana, Lionel Messi, and Luis Suarez round out the attacking group.
(LAFC)
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