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NBA's Nash, Ex-Yahoo Executive Mallett Invest in Women's Soccer
By Larry DiTore
Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Phoenix Suns player Steve Nash and former Yahoo! Inc. president Jeffrey Mallett are becoming part owners of the new Women's Professional Soccer league.
Nash and Mallett's investment will fund the ongoing development of the league, which is set to begin play in 2009, and is specifically allocated for new media initiatives, the league said in a press release. The amount of the investment wasn't disclosed.
Nash, a two-time National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player with the Suns, trained with English Premier League soccer team Tottenham as a teenager. His father played professionally in South Africa, while his brother plays in Vancouver and for the Canadian national team and his sister was the captain of her college team.
Mallett is also a former player, having spent two years in Canada's national and Olympic soccer team programs as a teenager. He currently is an adviser to Women's Professional Soccer Commissioner Tonya Antonucci, also a former Yahoo executive.
Women's Professional Soccer is scheduled to begin play in the spring of 2009 with teams based in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis and Washington.
To contact the reporter on this story: Larry DiTore in New York at lditore@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: February 5, 2008 11:02 EST
By Larry DiTore
Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Phoenix Suns player Steve Nash and former Yahoo! Inc. president Jeffrey Mallett are becoming part owners of the new Women's Professional Soccer league.
Nash and Mallett's investment will fund the ongoing development of the league, which is set to begin play in 2009, and is specifically allocated for new media initiatives, the league said in a press release. The amount of the investment wasn't disclosed.
Nash, a two-time National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player with the Suns, trained with English Premier League soccer team Tottenham as a teenager. His father played professionally in South Africa, while his brother plays in Vancouver and for the Canadian national team and his sister was the captain of her college team.
Mallett is also a former player, having spent two years in Canada's national and Olympic soccer team programs as a teenager. He currently is an adviser to Women's Professional Soccer Commissioner Tonya Antonucci, also a former Yahoo executive.
Women's Professional Soccer is scheduled to begin play in the spring of 2009 with teams based in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis and Washington.
To contact the reporter on this story: Larry DiTore in New York at lditore@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: February 5, 2008 11:02 EST
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