Dreaming BIG for Chattanooga (FC)

Sheldon Grizzle
3 min readMay 23, 2019

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Friends, you are needed! Our team (on and off the field) has been doing a lot of dreaming lately and we need your help to make these dreams even better!

Many of you know that I’ve spent years devoted to businesses and initiatives seeking to make a difference on our city. And now the thing that has most of my personal and professional attention is Chattanooga Football Club. It’s been a challenging nine months since I took over the day-to-day at Chattanooga FC, but we are working on some amazing things throughout the community that make our city better!

You have probably heard about our two MAJOR pushes that are going on right now. For those of you that play a leadership role in the community or in your organizations, I’m requesting your help in letting your employees/colleagues/network/neighbors know what’s going on. Having the support of Chattanoogans in these two key areas will ensure that we can continue to do everything that we are doing…and then even more that we are still dreaming about.

1) International Game on Saturday (5/25/19)

It really IS real

This Saturday will be Chattanooga Football Club’s biggest game in its history. We will be playing against Real Betis from La Liga (Spanish first division), which is the only team to have beaten Real Madrid AND Barcelona on the road in the same season since 2002. These guys are world renowned athletes and we will likely not see another team of this level in Chattanooga for some time.

This game will be broadcast on La Liga TV so they are promoting the match all over the world! We want to show the world that Chattanooga knows how to support big events. A good turnout ensures that we can continue to do big exhibitions like this in future seasons so please come support your boys in blue!

Tickets are $30 right now, which is $10 off the gameday price of $40 and can be purchased here or in person at Food City and Carniceria Loa.

2) Supporter Ownership Closing (6/1/19)

A vision of our first shareholder meeting next year?

June 1st is the final day to become an owner in Chattanooga Football Club. We’ve already had over 2600 new shareholders invest over $725,000 and we’d love to have you join us! Media outlets like Forbes and The Guardian have been following this ground-breaking community ownership model.

Please don’t miss out on the chance to join our team! Learn more here.

These are, by far, the two biggest things we’ve ever tackled at Chattanooga FC and we hope you’ll join us in dreaming big for Chattanooga! These two initiatives bring more diversity to the city and a greater sense of a shared future. We should not underestimate the power of these things…especially when compared to the alternative.

Thank you in advance for your support in this critical year.

We hope to see you at Finley and/or at our first shareholder meeting!

Onward CFC!!!

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Sheldon Grizzle

Follower, husband, father, cofounder @chattanoogafc, @thecompanylab, and @very_possible