{"id":310048,"date":"2026-05-11T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:43:08","slug":"la500-2026-larry-freedman-los-angeles-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310048\/","title":{"rendered":"LA500 2026: Larry Freedman &#8211; Los Angeles Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Larry Freedman\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778488988_4_w=9999.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778488988_4_w=9999.jpeg\" alt=\"Larry Freedman\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Co-President, Chief Business Officer<br \/>Los Angeles Football Club<\/p>\n<p>A co-president and chief business officer, Larry Freedman has led every aspect of the club\u2019s business growth, from building BMO Stadium into a premier Exposition Park venue to structuring landmark partnerships. A graduate of Boston University and UCLA law school, Freedman joined the LAFC in 2014, years before the club played its first match. In 2019, he won the MLS Doug Hamilton Executive of the Year, following the club\u2019s inaugural launch. Last year, the club signed South Korean star Son Heung-min, driving revenue to $158 million and propelling LAFC\u2019s valuation to $1.4 billion \u2013 the second highest in MLS. And BMO Stadium also surpassed one million tickets sold across all events<\/p>\n<p>YEARS ON LA500: 1 Year on the LA500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-President, Chief Business OfficerLos Angeles Football Club A co-president and chief business officer, Larry Freedman has led every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,130121,47,35910,50,49],"class_list":["post-310048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-larry-freedman","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-football-club","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}