Brady gets involved
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Topics on the brain:
-Tom Brady buys into Soccer
-Jamaican Women’s WC team
-Mas Messi
-US women team
Tom Brady buys in
Tom Brady is now a co-owner of Birmingham City in the 2nd division in England. Brady partnered with New York based knighthead Capital who recently took over ownership of the club in July.
Brady has said he plans to use his leadership experience and his nutritional knowledge to advise the club alongside working with the sports science department.
Brady has a tremendous amount of experience in these fields and will show how much of an asset he can be for the organization.
It’s great to see the interest of top athletes share their knowledge with others but to see them get involved in soccer makes it even better for the sport. Im excited to see how much he actually gets involved with the organization and what his impact will be.
Photo: Andrew Wiseman
Jamaican Women’s Team
Some fun facts about this unique situation and team.
This is the first time Jamaica has kept 3 clean sheets at a WC
1 of 3 teams to enter round of 16 without conceding
First caribbean team to enter knockout stages of Women’s WC
The goalie Rebecca Spenser is the first Jamaican goalkeeper to keep 3 clean sheets at the WC
All while knocking Heavyweights Brazil out of the WC
Marta from Brazil is arguably the best women’s player to ever play the game and Jamaica didn’t back down from them.
The craziest part about all of this is that the women’s team almost didn’t even make the WC due to lack of funds to get there. The Jamaican team put together a GoFundMe in order to raise enough money. This is truly an amazing story and hope to see their exciting run continue.
US Women’s Team
The US Women’s team is surprisingly shaky after barely getting out of their group. I guess we are just used to the extreme success and domination from previous years that we are expecting the same. They seem to be lacking the confidence we have seen in the past.
Their next game is against a very good Swedish team who is going to make moving on very challenging. In order to continue to advance they are going to need to put in much better performances going forward.
We all hope to see the Women’s team lift another trophy and create more history but they will need to show to everyone that they mean business and they are there to take what is there’s.