
There is a new sheriff in city, Houston soccer enthusiasts. On Tuesday, the Houston Dynamo Football Club announced authentic estate developer Ted Segal as its new vast majority operator and chairman. As head honcho, Segal will get in touch with the performs for the Bayou City’s two qualified soccer franchises: the Houston Dynamo of Important League Soccer, and Nationwide Women’s Soccer League’s reigning Obstacle Cup champions, the Sprint. Segal also took the greater part fascination in the leasing rights to BBVA Stadium, exactly where each groups participate in.
“Houston is a world class town that deserves earth course groups,” Segal said through his introductory push convention, which also featured Don Garber and Lisa Baird, commissioners of the MLS and NWSL. “I consider the Dynamo and the Sprint ought to characterize the very best of Houston, and I identify that my position in contributing to the club’s accomplishment is to give the teams with assets important to succeed on and off the pitch.”
A New Jersey indigenous and self-professed lifelong soccer enthusiast, Segal is the founder and president of EJS Group, a New York Town authentic estate team that invests in markets across the United States. He also co-founded and chairs Verance Cash, which offers capital for sports, media, and live leisure businesses including Wonka-like immersive experience Candytopia. And his new tie to Houston isn’t as random as it may possibly seem to be his father and brother operate LS Ability, which has places of work here.
Adhering to in the engage in pattern of his new groups, Segal squandered no time outlining his first methods of action as operator, which includes a 3-yr extension of the deal of defender Tim Parker, the signing of Zimbabwean defender Teenage Hadebe, and the hiring of former Texans President Jamey Rootes as the team’s CEO. Segal also designed guarantees to the group, asserting big charitable contributions to Dynamo Charities and the Houston Food Lender, as nicely as initiatives to develop the activity among Houston youth along with other children’s-centered nonprofits.
“Perhaps most importantly, the club’s means to affect the community by way of fantastic work is a powerful device that couple of corporations exterior of athletics can rival,” stated Segal, who succeeds Gabriel Brener as franchise owner. (Brener and his former the greater part possession group, which contains Oscar De La Hoya, Ben Guill, and James Harden, are expected to preserve a minority stake).
But the most interesting announcement for H-Town soccer followers very likely arrived when Segal announced he would acquire an energetic job in Houston’s bid to host the 2026 FIFA Environment Cup.
Every thing we do is with purpose of championship club,” he claimed, in advance of repping that Dynamo FC cred. “Let’s ‘hold it down’ and get to get the job done.”