{"id":1075,"date":"2006-08-12T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/team-galactico\/"},"modified":"2006-08-12T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T16:49:38","slug":"team-galactico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/team-galactico","title":{"rendered":"Team Galactico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat article on the finances of Real Madrid ‘football club’<\/a>, the biggest sports brand in the world. The team is actually a non-profit organization, with 70,000 “club members” and a team president who gets elected by them every four years. It’s a neat take on how to build a brand with global reach, without the deep pockets of a single owner, a la the Yankees.<\/p>\n

Making the official VM wife happy, the article is accompanied by a slide show<\/a> with a nice pic of Beckham. Grr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat article on the finances of Real Madrid ‘football club’, the biggest sports brand in the world. The team is actually a non-profit organization, with 70,000 “club members” and a team president who gets elected by them every four years. It’s a neat take on how to build a brand with global reach, … <\/p>\n

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