KOMPAS.com – Manchester City boss Sheikh Mansour recently bought French League second division club Esperance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne (ESTAC).
The purchase of ESTAC through the parent company that manages the football association, City Football Group (CFG).
The majority of the group’s shares are owned by Man City boss Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan from Abu Dhabi at 78 percent.
On Thursday (3/9/2020), CFG officially announced that it had bought the ESTAC club from its previous owner, Daniel Masoni.
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Daniel Masoni, a French businessman, has also bought a minority stake and will join the club’s board.
ESTAC is a soccer club that has been established since 1986. They are better known as Troyes.
They percent felt the Intertoto Cup trophy in 2001 and won the Ligue 2 title in the 2014-2015 season and then promoted to Ligue 1.
However, they must return to play in Ligue 1 after being relegated the following season.
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The ESTAC headquarters are at the Stade de l’Aube Stadium with an audience capacity of 20,400 people.
The 2019-2020 season, they finished fourth in the Ligue 2 event which was forced to end early due to the corona virus pandemic.
“We have had an interest in French football for some time and have long admired ESTAC,” said the CEO of the company CFG, Ferran Soriano, was quoted as saying Antara News from Reuters.
“So, we are very pleased to have completed the acquisition of our 10th club and have a permanent place in France,” he continued.
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“This is an achievement for CFG and shows how our model continues to adapt and grow in a relatively short time,” he said.
Here are 10 clubs that CFG owns under Sheikh Mansour as the majority shareholder of the company:
1. Manchester City – England
2. New York City – United States
3. Melbourne City – Australia
4. Yokohama F Marinos – Japan
5. Montevideo City Torque – Uruguay
6. Girona – Italy
7. Sichuan Jiuniu-China
8. Mumbai City – India
9. Lomsel SK – Belgium
10. ESTAC – Perancis
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