{"id":466684,"date":"2026-02-08T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:45:10","slug":"wsl-live-build-up-to-arsenal-vs-man-city-plus-more-including-liverpool-vs-aston-villa-spurs-vs-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466684\/","title":{"rendered":"WSL LIVE: Build-up to Arsenal vs Man City plus more including Liverpool vs Aston Villa &#038; Spurs vs Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antetokounmpo buys stake in Chelsea Womenpublished at 15:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Tottenham v Chelsea (14:25 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/89ef3434-e520-4f5e-a8f5-709a030cbb63.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1b4qg0x-ContributorLink etflsgg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks celebrates a three pointer against the Chicago Bulls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c46ed8e-9643-43f9-80b7-53825c40d82b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"824\" height=\"463\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo has said he has joined the ownership group of Chelsea Women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on X, he said he was &#8220;proud and honoured&#8221; to partner with Alexis Ohanian, the founder of social media platform Reddit who bought a stake in the club in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milwaukee Bucks forward Antetokounmpo, 31, said Chelsea is a &#8220;historic club built on passion, excellence, and a willing culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chelsea&#8217;s history speaks for itself, and I&#8217;m excited to contribute to the future by supporting continued growth and impact in women&#8217;s sport,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This is about ambition, legacy, and pushing the game to new heights. Up the Chels!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the latest in a series of minority stakes in professional sports teams that the basketball player has taken, following investments in baseball side Milwaukee Brewers, football club Nashville SC and the Los Angeles Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ohanion purchased an 8-10% share in Chelsea Women, believed to be worth around \u00a320m, last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antetokounmpo buys stake in Chelsea Womenpublished at 15:28 GMT 15:28 GMT Tottenham v Chelsea (14:25 GMT) Chelsea Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-466684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}