The reign of chief executive Ivan Gazidis reached a new stage yesterday with the announcement of
three new senior appointments.
The first is new commercial man Tom Fox. He joins us from sports and entertainment marketing
outfit Wasserman Media Group having previously worked for Nike where he was sports marketing
director.
On June 26, Cristiano Ronaldo completed a $132 million transfer from Manchester United to Real
Madrid. In strict business terms, Real Madrid bought an asset from another business in hopes of
improving its own product. No government, federation or league was going to stand in the way of
what Real Madrid thought was a smart business decision.
Behind the scenes at Fox Soccer Channel, there was a significant signing last year when Fox
recruited Bhavesh Patel from the NBA to head up the channel's FoxSoccer.com and FoxSoccer.tv
websites, among other duties. While so much of the attention is on what happens on the screen at
Fox Soccer Channel, we thought it'd be interesting and helpful to our readers to interview Patel
and learn more about what's happening with the Fox websites and what the future plans are.
With J Hutcherson -- Had the powers that be in World soccer watched last night's 60 Minutes, they
would've seen something familiar with the National Basketball Association's response to the Tim
Donaghy referee scandal. There wasn't much of one. NBA officials and players refused to be
interviewed. You don't have to have any interest in basketball to see that the NBA's strategy has
worked.
