Brass Bonanza - Starting a Professional Soccer Team From Scratch With Joe Calafiore
Destination Different
English - September 30, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 43.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Real life FIFA. That's the only way I can describe what Joe Calafiore has been up to over the last 5 years.
In 2016 he was working for Major League Baseball when he decided to pull together a business plan of what it could look like to bring a professional soccer team to Hartford, Connecticut. A couple years, countless hurdles, and a number of major milestones later, Joe and his team of owners did just that.
They brought a professional soccer team to Hartford.
Hartford Athletic played its inaugural game in the spring of 2019 and has earned a spot in the United Soccer League playoffs in just its second year of action.
In this episode we talked about building a soccer team from the ground up, rebuilding an iconic Connecticut stadium, and Joe's 20-year dream of bringing professional sports back to Hartford.
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