It’s fantasy football as Nivea’s team of underdogs go all the way to glory
Who doesn’t love a good underdog story? These are the stories that we cling to. They are the stories that we get the most out of. When it happens on the football pitch, there is even more to be proud of. With this in mind, Nivea should be proud of its efforts in promoting one of the true underdog stories with Ivory, F.C. To call it fantasy football might be a bit much. But this really did seem like a fantasy at some points. How else could a Sunday League team from Essex take down a group of mighty English football legends. Simply put, it is not possible. At least it wasn’t possible until Nivea got involved.
Nivea’s involvement in the Nivea Great Football Experiment was more than just nominal. The company did not simply lend its name to the effort in order to garner up interest. They put their resources behind it and the company legitimately cared about the outcome. This is why the players from Ivory, F.C. were not made to play under poor coaches. There was no cursory effort here. Ivory put in a full few weeks of hard effort under Ray Wilkins and Terry Venables. The training was such that they expected to win when they finally hit the pitch against the English football legends. At the end of the day, Ivory made good on their training, taking down the legends by a two to one score.
The underdog story only works if a team is a true underdog. In this case, it is hard to imagine a bigger underdog than Ivory. They were a bunch of guys who had only a few skills. They were largely out of shape, at least by professional standards. The guys were just a mess when it all began. By the end of the thing, though, everything had changed. When the Great Football Experiment had run its course, the underdogs stood tall. They were coached to be confident and fit. They played with vigour and they took the game right to a bunch of guys who should have been much better than them.
Quentin Townsend: The Torchbearer For Atlanta Vision
Quentin Townsend is one of those rare personalities who have been able to take care of two big responsibilities simultaneously, one of owning a basketball franchisee and also managing it the same time. He is doing these twin jobs very efficiently and also very effectively which has staggered many a sports management professionals around the country.
Quentin has all the necessary tools and knowledge that any sports manager needs to efficiently execute the already laid plans. His upbringing also has a very important role to play for his story of success as he has showed dire interest and endeavour in everything that he had learned as a child. The love for basketball was infused in him ever since he was a child but it was not the only desire as he also dreamt to be a very successful entrepreneur in the future.
Quentin Townsend was very lucky to have grabbed on to a very rare opportunity when he bought over the franchisee of the American Basketball Association at Atlanta. He was able to gather enough funds to realise his childhood dreams to come true as his work was now related to the game of basketball and also the application of entrepreneurial skills for his own franchisee, all at the same time. The name of the team was changed to Atlanta Vision in the year of 2004 and since then the team has now become a very common and loved name in the households of Atlanta.
His sights were set straight on the total re-organisation of the franchisee and thus he had devised an ingenious plan that helped overhaul the total system for effective and positive results. In only a matter of three months all the efforts and planning of Quentin paid rich dividends as the team was given the title of “Atlanta’s Best Value for Sports Entertainment”. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit organization, Vision of Excellence, which offers programs to youth that helps them lead a healthier lifestyle.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle recognised him as one of the top “40 under 40 Up & Comers” in Georgia in the year of 2007, an award to “professionals on the rise” under the age of 40. On 30th April 2008, Quentin Townsend was chosen to be the President and Chief Operating Officer of the ABA and it had happened for the very first time that a man of African American origin had reached such height in the field of professional sports management.
