Traffic Sports, owner of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, announced today that a group of three Brazilian investors - Paulo Cesso, Ricardo Geromel, and Rafael Bertani - has purchased the team.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers play in the North American Soccer League (NASL), which is a present-day revival of the league where Pelé played back in the glory days of soccer in the US.
In fact, a match between the Strikers and the New York Cosmos drew 77,691, a record which still stands for a league game between two professional US soccer teams.
"Our vision is to boost the level of play in the NASL to the point where local players and fans won't have to look any further than their own backyards to play and watch world-class pro soccer," says Geromel, who will be the managing partner.
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