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PFA Announces Partnership with Eurosport
Leading Soccer Apparel Company Signs a One-Year Deal
Newport News, VA (April 16, 2006) – The Professional Football Academy (PFA) announced today a new partnership with Eurosport, the Fabled Soccer Traders, one of the leading soccer apparel companies in the nation. Eurosport will become the official retail outlet of the PFA. As part of the one-year agreement, Eurosport will provide equipment, training gear, and apparel for the Summer Excellence Camp Program. Included in the deal are advertising signage and website agreements as well as catalog and newsletter exposure. "The PFA is excited to work with one of the most well known and respected apparel companies in the country," stated Jeff Dominguez, PFA President and Marketing Director. It will be a great opportunity for both soccer companies to benefit from one another."
About Eurosport, the Fabled Soccer Traders Published every four weeks, the Eurosport catalog has an annual circulation of more than 11 million. With an average length of 110 pages, each issue features a wide selection of top-of-the-line merchandise presented with informative articles and pictures of world-class soccer players and teams. Eurosport serves as an important communication vehicle for many organizations supporting American soccer, such as: US Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, US Youth Soccer, US Soccer Foundation, Chevrolet, and more. No other soccer publication in the world reaches as many households.
Team Eurosport was created in 2000 to aggregate the widest selection of soccer team uniforms and equipment in the world. The catalog and customer service function are both designed to simplify the purchasing process for teams at all levels. It is published 2-3 times a year, and features more than 600 different styles of jerseys. In 2002, KeeperSport was created specifically for soccer goalkeepers, once again offering the widest selection of gloves, jerseys, and goalkeeping supplies anywhere. The Keepersport catalog will be published quarterly.
About the PFA The PFA, primarily created as an agency for American players seeking professional trials in Europe, is a unique organization that offers various programs associated and involved with professional European soccer that are otherwise limited in the United States. BV Cloppenburg, a German professional team, is one of the primary supporters of the PFA and its programs.
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