What Does $100 Buy You in Modern Football?
Usually, not much.
A ticket.
A shirt.
A couple of beers if you are lucky.
At the Los Angeles Aztecs, $100 can make you part of the ownership story.
And every investor who wants one gets their own page on LosAngelesAztecs.com.
Your name.
Your story.
Why you backed the club.
What football means to you.
Where you are from.
What you want the Aztecs to become.
Not buried on a spreadsheet.
Not forgotten once the money lands.
There for people to see.
Because $100 is not really about $100.
It is about creating an owner.
Fans Are Usually Asked To Buy. We Want Them To Own.
Modern football tells supporters they matter.
Then normally sends them a bill.
Buy the ticket.
Buy the shirt.
Buy the subscription.
Buy the new shirt because somebody moved the stripe half an inch.
We want to try something different.
The Los Angeles Aztecs are raising through Wefunder because we want ordinary supporters to have the opportunity to invest alongside larger investors.
The minimum investment is $100.
Deliberately.
We do not want ownership to begin only when somebody walks into the room carrying a very large cheque.
We want the person who has believed from the beginning to have a way in too.
Your Page. Your Place In The Story.
Every investor who wants to participate will be offered their own profile on the Los Angeles Aztecs website.
Think of it as a living record of the people who helped bring the club back.
Some will remember the original Aztecs.
George Best.
Johan Cruyff.
The strange, glamorous madness of football in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Others will have discovered the club last week.
That does not matter.
What matters is that they were here at the beginning of this chapter.
If this becomes what we believe it can become, those pages should get more interesting with age.
Before the first game.
Before the stadium.
Before everyone suddenly remembers they believed in us all along.
Football has quite a few of those people.
One Thousand Owners Changes The Conversation
Imagine 1,000 people backing the Aztecs.
Not following.
Not liking.
Not commenting.
Investing.
That changes the conversation.
When we speak to cities, sponsors, stadium partners and larger investors, we are no longer saying:
People seem interested.
We can say:
People have actually put their money behind it.
There is a difference.
One large investor can provide capital.
A thousand smaller investors can provide something capital cannot buy on its own.
Belief.
Reach.
Noise.
Introductions.
Supporters.
Families.
Stories.
A community with a genuine reason to care what happens next.
We need both.
Serious capital will be required to build a serious football club.
There is no fairy dust hidden behind the goalposts.
But capital without people builds a company.
People and capital together can build a club.
The $100 Owner Matters
There is another principle behind this.
We do not want somebody who invests $100 treated as though they are merely filling up the numbers while somebody investing $100,000 gets to feel like football royalty.
Of course larger investors take greater financial risk.
That matters.
But culturally, the club should understand something simple.
The first supporter willing to put $100 behind an idea before there is even a ball being kicked has done something important.
They believed early.
That deserves recognition.
The Aztecs should remember those people.
This Club Had Characters. It Should Have Them Again.
The original Los Angeles Aztecs were never bland.
Best.
Cruyff.
Hollywood.
California.
Football arriving in America with its shirt half untucked.
There is no point reviving a name like that and turning it into another polished corporate franchise where everything has been focus-grouped until nobody feels anything.
The next Aztecs should have personality.
And the people building it should have personality too.
Our owners will come from Los Angeles.
England.
Europe.
Across America.
Maybe former players.
Maybe musicians.
Maybe actors.
Maybe someone sitting at home reading this who simply thinks football could be done differently.
All part of the same thing.
Be There Before There Is A Bandwagon
Most people discover successful things after they become successful.
That is easy.
The interesting people arrive before certainty.
Before the stadium.
Before the fixtures.
Before the first team sheet.
Before somebody tells you it was obvious all along.
That is where we are now.
The beginning.
And beginnings are usually the best part of the story.
Own A Piece Of The Los Angeles Aztecs
The Los Angeles Aztecs investment round is live on Wefunder.
You can invest from $100.
Become part of the ownership story.
Claim your place among the people helping bring the Aztecs back.
And, if you want one, have your own owner profile on LosAngelesAztecs.com.
$100. One investor. One story. One place at the beginning.
Invest in the Los Angeles Aztecs on Wefunder.
Football ahead.
