Bengaluru, Aug. 17 -- Football World Cup winner and entrepreneur Gerard Pique has joined FYERS American Gambits as a strategic shareholder, marking a major crossover between football and chess and strengthening the franchise's ambition to build a globally recognised sporting and entertainment property.
Pique, one of the most decorated footballers of his generation, was unveiled as a strategic shareholder at an event here on Monday ahead of the third season of the Global Chess League, scheduled to be held in Bengaluru from September 3 to 13.
His entry brings experience from elite football, global fan engagement, sports entrepreneurship and the development of sporting intellectual properties to a chess franchise that wants to take its ident...