Golden Boot Capital is all about investment in outstanding talents and high performing football players. So an investor can own a portfolio of players that can earn him stupendous profits and unimaginable wealth within a given business circle.
Golden Boot Capital is an initiative of GreenHunters Sports International, and here the Chief Executive, Benson Chukwueke, explains two ways you can start creating wealth in this line of sports business investment.
1. Third Party Ownership (TPO): An investor may choose to sign an agreement with an outstanding football player showcased by GreenHunters Sports International. Agreement to fund the player's training, trips for trials and scouting programs for a percentage of the players future transfer fees and salaries, as the case may be.
It is a practice, previously widespread in South America, whereby an investor i.e. an individual (agent or businessman) , a company (Agency, Venture capitalists or Hedge funds), otherwise known as the third party would ‘invest’ in a player, in return to earn economic rights in the future of the said player or club or academy i.e. take a percentage of the future transfer fees or fees that the player who is the subject of the investment attracts.
This practice is peculiar to football because football is one of the only global sports with an open transfer market whereby players are traded domestically and internationally between clubs, and because of the substantial sums that can be exchanged in football transfer fees.
Third-party ownership in football according to Olisa Agbakoba Legal OAL, is a business model whereby instead of Club A" owning 100% of the player’s economic rights, these rights are shared with a third party who may either own a percentage share or on rare occasions all of the economic rights of the said player. This agreement is created through a private legal contract between the third party, the Player and later, the Club.
Neymar’s transfer to Barcelona spiked general awareness on TPO. Neymar was signed to Santos Football Club in the beginning before he reached international stardom: In a bid to retain him on their squad and simultaneously leverage on his fast-rising superstar status, the club sought to increase his wages to the level of his counterparts in Europe. However, since the club did not have the financial capacity to do so, a sports agency called DSI undertook to pay these high wages to Neymar on behalf of the Club. As a result, they owned 60% of the player’s economic rights. By the time Barcelona FC paid the transfer fees for the signing of Neymar, Santos FC only received 40% of the full fee.
With most people being unaware, players like Victor Osimhen, Wilfred Ndidi, Henry Onyekuru are under Third Party Ownership. The thing is, some of this kind of contracts are private and kept secret. The third party investors on some of these players are making a lot of money from their success in Europe.
Contact us at GreenHunters Sports International, if you are interested in making this kind of investment. Call or WhatsApp: +2348098772556, or email: gh.sports1@gmail.com
2. Football Index: is an innovative platform that allows fans to become traders on a virtual football stock market, using their knowledge of the game to make money.
Traders (i.e. fans) invest in players in the hope that they will perform well, demand for them will rise and their value will go up. Investing in a player is known as buying a "Football Future".
A Player can also earn traders dividends by topping the Football Index Buzz charts - by being the most talked about in the media on any given day or by performing well on the pitch.
You can buy shares of a footballer and play the long game on their future performance. ... For every footballer on the market, Football Index traders can acquire shares at the buying price of each, and they can sell those shares at the sell price, or back to the market.
How do you Register and Start Trading?
As it is at the time of writing this post, it is not possible to register with your Nigerian details. Football Index only allow people living in the UK 🇬🇧 or USA 🇺🇸
Golden Boot Capital, a subsidiary of GreenHunters Sports International are working hard to get the right approval to start brokering Football Index deals here in Nigeria. Hopefully, that will happen in the next few months.
