Patrick Whitesell has launched WIN Sports activities Group, a brand new, independently owned soccer illustration agency constructed to serve athletes, coaches, and leaders.
Whitesell, who beforehand co-founded WME and Endeavor Holdings, the place he was co-CEO and govt chairman, can be the founder and chief govt of a brand new working and funding platform backed by Silver Lake, which invests throughout media, leisure, and sports activities. That was a part of an overarching transaction that noticed main stakeholder Silver Lake take Endeavor personal just lately.
“As soccer continues to increase in international attain, business worth, and cultural significance, WIN Sports activities Group will assist shoppers on and off the sector. Right this moment’s high expertise is targeted on contracts and alternatives straight tied to the sport, in addition to constructing careers, companies, and platforms for affect that attain past the sector. With a group skilled in each elite illustration and long-term strategic planning, WIN is constructed to assist shoppers flip contract, model, and enterprise alternatives into lasting profession worth,” right this moment’s announcement stated.
The brand new firm is the previous soccer division of WME Sports activities and with the identical senior group.
“There’s by no means been a extra vital time to assist soccer gamers assume and act like house owners,” stated Whitesell. “The ambition we’ve seen reshape music, movie, and digital tradition is now enjoying out in sports activities. WIN is constructed to assist athletes navigate that shift and create lasting worth.”
The NFL the corporate famous, is essentially the most financially dominant standalone sports activities league with among the most precious groups on the planet, with its presence now spanning greater than 20 worldwide markets and rising. Within the U.S. final 12 months, three-quarters of the 100 most-watched TV broadcasts had been NFL video games, together with all the high ten. The league noticed almost 9% income distribution development final 12 months, and the wage cap is projected to proceed rising.
Likewise, faculty soccer is accelerating in affect by way of main media offers, realignment, and expanded participant alternative.
Towards this backdrop, WIN plans to combines elite illustration with strategic assist throughout model, enterprise, media and long-term profession growth to “consider enterprise ventures, and construct platforms that reach past the sport. At WIN, efficiency and potential are handled with equal weight, guaranteeing athletes are supported within the second and positioned for what’s subsequent.”