Jon Levy
Here at The Yanks Are Coming we’re as excited as anyone for this year’s UEFA Champions League Final. After all, you’ve got The Most Interesting Man In The World Andrea Pirlo in what’s looking like his European swan song, and he’s charged with calmly quieting and dissecting the new Machine Gun Barcelona. A group that plays such a starkly different style than the recent tiki-taka Barca teams that is prompted TYAC’s “friend of the program” Zack Goldman (@ThatDamnYank) to tweet that this year’s blaugrana had made the change from Pep Guardiola’s jazz to a cacophony of ultra attacking heavy metal. And with the skill that Neymar, Suarez, and Messi are showcasing in the final third, we’re definitely talking more Dream Theater than nu-metal. Not a bad setup for a match, huh?
Meanwhile, you may have noticed that this site loves applying principles of financial analysis to the beautiful game. Granted, we might not do the research ourselves most of the time (we have degrees in words and stuff), but we never pass on the opportunity to pimp our favorite purveyors of said research, like the book Soccernomics that you’ve probably seen mentioned once every couple months.
Well today’s numbers nugget comes to us from Ticketbis, and it paints a picture of the all-encompassing impact of the UEFA Champions League and its final knockout stages. Is it accurate to say that we’re essentially looking at the economic windfall of staging multiple Super Bowls over the course of a couple months? Read on to find out…
http://www.ticketbis.com/en/the-money-making