Alexis Ohanian has mentioned Chelsea will be “America’s workforce” and backed the membership to change into “a billion greenback franchise someday.”
Talking after watching Sonia Bompastor’s aspect win the FA Cup closing at Wembley by beating Manchester United 3-0, Reddit co-founder Ohanian, who purchased a ten% stake in Chelsea final week for £20 million ($26.52 million), talked up the workforce.
“Chelsea could be very distinctive. These are the queens of world soccer and so they’ve obtained the trophy case to show it,” Ohanian instructed the BBC in an interview from Wembley, the place he watched the sport alongside his spouse, tennis legend, Serena Williams.
“This will probably be a billion greenback franchise someday and I hope my {dollars}, my kilos, can go in direction of that and particularly again residence in America, that is going to be America’s workforce.”
The 42-year-old has been concerned in ladies’s soccer earlier than and was the biggest shareholder of Angel Metropolis FC, which he helped launch to nice fanfare in 2020, earlier than it was bought for $250 million in 2024.
The victory meant Sonia Bompastor’s Chelsea aspect completed the home season unbeaten, having gained the League Cup closing towards Manchester Metropolis and triumphed within the Girls’s Tremendous League for the sixth successive 12 months.
Nonetheless, they failed of their bid for Champions League glory, overwhelmed 8-2 on mixture by Barcelona within the semifinal.
