Tom Brady: NFL legend becomes minority owner of Birmingham City

Tom Brady retired successful February aft 23 seasons successful the NFL

Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady has go a number proprietor successful Championship broadside Birmingham City.

The 46-year-old volition go president of a caller advisory committee astatine St Andrew's.

"Tom Brady joining the Birmingham City squad is simply a connection of intent. We are mounting the barroom astatine satellite class," Knighthead co-founder Tom Wagner said.

"Tom is some investing and committing his clip and extended expertise.

"As seat of the advisory committee Tom volition person a nonstop interaction connected the club. The men's, women's, and academy teams are going to payment from the knowledge.

"The extremity that Tom has committed to ain is to marque Birmingham City a respected person successful nutrition, health, wellness, and betterment crossed the satellite of football."

In a connection the nine said Brady would besides enactment intimately with the committee and the absorption squad connected planetary selling efforts and the recognition of caller commercialized concern opportunities for the club.

'A existent honour'

US-based Shelby Companies Limited (SCL), a subsidiary of Knighthead Capital Management, completed its takeover of Birmingham successful July.

As portion of that woody SCL became controlling shareholders of the antecedently Chinese-owned club.

"Birmingham City is an iconic nine with truthful overmuch past and passionateness and to beryllium portion of the Blues is simply a existent honour for me," Brady said.

"BCFC is built connected teamwork and determination and I'm excited to enactment alongside the board, absorption and players to marque our Second City nine 2nd to none.

"I've been portion of immoderate astonishing teams successful my day, and I'm looking guardant to applying my position to make that aforesaid occurrence present successful Birmingham."

Widely recognised arsenic 1 of the top American footballers successful NFL history, the backmost won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and 1 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful 2021.

Brady's last play earlier his status earlier this twelvemonth ended successful the Bucs' 31-14 play-off defeat successful January.