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The group stage of the UEFA Europa League has kicked off this past Thursday and brought interesting matches to viewers worldwide. Even though I enjoy the UEFA Champions League and its very […]
Many football clubs (and businesses in other industries as well) often do not know how to approach social media and use it for communicating with their supporters, business partners, and other stakeholders. […]
A few weeks ago, a tweet by LA Galaxy, that was promoting an autograph-signing session with Juninho, caught my attention. The picture (or poster) in the tweet featured Juninho and explained where and when the autograph-signing would take place. […]
One of the toughest questions marketing professionals get asked regularly is, “How can customers be engaged online to the point of becoming loyal customers?” Before answering that question, it is crucial to […]
Modern marketers agree that content marketing is an essential approach for any brand. In the case of football clubs, there is a ton of content that can be used for marketing and communication […]
This is the third post in our The Branded Footballer series, and this time we will look at Japan’s Yoichiro Kakitani, who moved this July from J.League club Cerezo Osaka to FC […]
The FIFA World Cup 2014 came to an end about 4 weeks ago and with it an extremely valuable time for brands that invest considerable financial and human resources in endorsements. Nonetheless, endorsement […]
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff pioneered the term groundswell in their 2008 book release. Li and Bernoff define the groundswell as ‘A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they […]
As we have discussed in the post Paul Pogba: The Branded Footballer [Series], ‘Football players are as much a brand as the club they play for,’ or in the context of the […]
The Socceroos, the Australian national team, have shown great spirit and talent in the first two group matches of the FIFA World Cup 2014. Unfortunately, that passion and spirit did not result […]
The FIFA World Cup 2014 kicked off yesterday with a 3-1 win by the hosts Brazil over Croatia. We will not go into the controversy surrounding the arguably suboptimal organization or the […]
During a class at the Sports Business Institute Barcelona (SBI Barcelona) we talked about creating web content that sells and engages. Program director Diego Valdes listed several techniques that can be applied […]
Juventus F.C. and Italian National Team center-back Leonardo Bonucci is not only one of the arguably best defenders in the world, he is also very talented when it comes to positioning brands […]
Malcolm Glazer, the (in)famous owner of Manchester United and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, died on 28 May 2014 at age 85 from complications related to a stroke he suffered in 2006 (ESPN). […]
Here an informative infographic from Major League Soccer (Facebook.com/MLS). Going through the numbers I was not surprised to learn that 61 percent of all football players in the MLS are from the […]
The following post was an assignment for the Sports Business Institute Barcelona Football Communication & Social Media course. Heineken, a Dutch brewing company, has been a sponsor of the UEFA Champions League since […]
