USMNT’s Weah joins Brooklyn FC ownership neighborhood

United States males’s nationwide crew and Juventus winger Tim Weah has joined the ownership neighborhood of Brooklyn FC, that may perchance characteristic professional ladies folk’s and males’s groups in the United Soccer League beginning later this 365 days.

Weah, 24, turned into as soon as born in Brooklyn and done childhood soccer in Fresh York earlier than shifting to France.

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Brooklyn FC declined to portion Weah’s stake in the crew but confirmed that he is investing in the total club, including a most important-division ladies folk’s crew that launches in August in the USL Large League, a second-division males’s crew that launches in 2025 in the USL Championship and a free-to-play academy.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to note up for Brooklyn Football Club’s ownership crew and toughen our connection to the folk of Fresh York, the borough I turned into as soon as born in, and town I fancy,” Weah stated in an announcement.

“BKFC is a grassroots-oriented club, centered on providing now not easiest prime-level professional soccer but fresh pathways and alternatives for ladies folk and males off the pitch as successfully.”

Weah made his first look for the USMNT in 2018, the identical 365 days he made his senior debut for Paris Saint Germain.

He signed a 5-365 days contract with Juventus final 365 days after stops with Celtic on loan and Lille in France’s Ligue 1.

Weah gained league titles with Celtic and Lille.

He helped Juventus obtain a Italian Cup title earlier this month.

Weah, the son of faded Liberia president and 1995 Ballon d’Or winner George Weah, turned into as soon as portion of the USMNT squad that made it out of neighborhood play at the 2022 World Cup and is expected to play a most important role with the crew at this summer’s Copa América.

Brooklyn FC’s professional groups will play out of Maimonides Park on Coney Island, the longtime home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league baseball crew affiliated with the Fresh York Mets.

Maimonides Park snappily hosted soccer in 2017 when the Fresh York Cosmos carried available.

The males’s and ladies folk’s groups will portion the identical title and badge.

The ladies folk’s crew will host its home opener in the USL Large League, which is a challenger first division to the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer Leagueon Aug. 31 in opposition to Carolina Ascent FC.

Weah joins an ownership neighborhood led by North Six Neighborhood and chairman Matt Rizzetta, who additionally owns Italian Serie B aspect Ascoli FC.

“Tim’s scuttle from Brooklyn to the finest stages in global and club soccer conjures up all Fresh York footballers and extra helps us instill an elite winning culture across all our males’s, ladies folk’s, and academy purposes,” Brooklyn FC CEO Mack Mansfield stated in an announcement.

“We look ahead to competing for championships at Maimonides Park this coming season and beyond.”