USA 1 – Algeria 0 World Cup 2010…We move ON TO THE NEXT ONE ! ROUND 2 FOR THE USA !

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Article VIA Business.Timesonline.co.uk

Written by Ben Marlow
Aliko Dangote, a billionaire Nigerian industrialist, is in talks to buy the 16% stake being sold by Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, the club’s fourth-largest shareholder. Dangote is understood to have registered his interest in buying the holding with Blackstone, the American finance house that has been given the job of finding a buyer for the shares.

Bracewell-Smith’s stake is currently worth £96m, but she is seeking up to £160m for the shares. Her holding is key to the future ownership of the north London club.

Arsenal’s two biggest investors, Stan Kroenke, the American sports tycoon, and Alisher Usmanov, the Russian oligarch, are also contemplating buying the shares. If either of the two men were to buy the Bracewell-Smith holding, they would be forced to launch a full takeover offer for the club.
Arsenal, which has a market value of £606m, is one of a number of Premier League clubs that could change hands this summer. Liverpool’s American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, have recently put their club up for sale.

Manchester United has attracted bid interest from a fan-based consortium that wants to wrest control from the Glazer family.

Dangote is a passionate football fan and has the wealth to compete with Kroenke and Usmanov. Forbes magazine recently ranked him among the world’s 500 richest people, with a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion (£1.7 billion). He has helped the Nigerian national football team with cash presents and has stood for the post of president of the Nigerian football association.

He recently celebrated his 53rd birthday with the purchase of an eight-seater Bombardier jet, regarded as one of the most sophisticated private planes in the world.

He is the founder of the Dangote Group, a manufacturing empire that started in the late 1970s as a cement importer and which now has interests ranging from sugar and flour to telecommunications and oil.

His net worth is hitting around 3.3 Billion dollars ..
Check out his company, Dangote Group

Nike, Dopeness again…and I don’t think anybody, besides the good folks at Geico can compete. Old Spice, and Snickers, and Pepsi, and plenty more have come up with brilliant strategies and great marketing campaigns have aided in companies conquering new demographics especially when the product has stood proud, with its chest out…through the test of time. …but none have stomped on NIKE territory and walked away winning.

Apple and Microsoft continue to do their thing, but they battle..product to product, advertisement shots..but lets be honest, since the Lebron & Kobe puppets…NIKE has regained your interest, even if you hate them. Lebron and Kobe definitely helped that happen…and they’ve stood by Tiger, again..because it creates this water cooler banter every time. It makes a statement about their business being about business and not really based on some moral code of ethics and what they expect from an athlete.

That being blogged.. Alejandro González Iñárritu, who’s work you’ve probably seen.. ” Babel”, “21 Grams”, did a nice job with a sick way to KICK OFF World Cup 2010 ! The commercial features Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Landon Donovan, Ronaldinho, The Best Player in the NBA, LA Lakers’ star Kobe Bryant, Roger Federer, actor Gael Garcia Bernal and Homer Simpson. Way to go NIKE !

Tuesday May 4th at 7pm EST ESPN’s E:60 presents the story of the Liberian Amputee Soccer Team, featuring narration and music by Nas.

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Whatever happen to following the North Star…..It’s natures Satellite/GPS . HA !