Thursday, April 17, 2014

ARI-PBBM International Training - Day Nine

Day Nine

Today, it's a different form of training.  The participants were taken for a fieldwork at the Manchester United Stadium Football Club at Old Traford in Manchester.  We were taken in for a professional tour and briefings  of the second largest stadium in the United Kingdom.  Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. The training participants were told that MUFC was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878 and later, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
 Being one of the most successful football clubs in the United Kingdom, MUFC have won twenty League titles, a record eleven FA Cups, four League Cups, and twenty FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup, and
one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club won a continental treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club. Just like any other business and government entities, MUFC  inculcates good governance and leadership in managing its football club.  Manchester United is the third-richest football club in the world  in terms of revenue,  and the second most valuable sports team in 2013 It is one of the most widely supported football teams in the world. 
After being floated on the 
London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club was purchased by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million. In August 2012, Manchester United made an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.  Later in the afternoon, the group left for Amsterdam.