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It took 5 years for the club from Bergamo (northern Italy) to transform from an average club to one of the world elite. Atalanta is an example of success especially when due to COVID, many clubs are struggling to establish more diversified and sustainable business models or worse, simply looking to survive. The success story of the club began when manager Gian Piero Gasperini joined in 2016. Despite starting with a series of continuous defeats, he managed to transmit the winning style and identity to each of the members of the squad. At the end of his first season, he...

The Expansion League, which was already very vulnerable financially, worsened its financial situation with the pandemic. The FMF , as the parent responsible for each of the categories (children) that comprise it, must help each one when they are in trouble. In this case, with the Expansion League, he opted for the easiest decision to execute, but more complicated to sustain: the subsidy. In exchange for eliminating promotion and relegation in the Maximum Category, the FMF transfers a subsidy of 2 million pesos to each of the 12 teams in the Expansion League (formerly called Ascenso MX), such that at...

27 years have passed since the creation of the MLS and despite the fact that it has gone through various sporting and commercial ups and downs, it currently enjoys a transparent business scheme, in which investors, television stations and sponsors have a single client, MLS itself and their investors. That's right, all the income (Revenue) that is generated by Television Contracts, sale of income to stadiums, brand and team marketing, etc. In turn, the MLS distributes them in equal proportions to each of the teams, which must manage it publicly and efficiently to cover all their operating expenses (including player...

Imagine for a second that you are the Commercial Director of a recognized company; your results depend on the sales of your sellers. That is why you select them, approve them, train them, offer them objective bonuses, promise them that no matter what happens you will not fire them, but yes: the worst 3 salespeople of the year, regardless of the reason, you will charge them floor to be able to continue visiting customers. And now, facing higher operating costs, they must try to compete the following year against the rest of the vendors who not only did not charge...