Ken Bates
Ken Bates ( born December 4, 1931 in Ealing ) is an English football functionary and entrepreneurs.
Life
Bates was in Ealing - born - a district of London. The mother died right after Ken's birth and there is also the father of it made , Ken was raised by his grandparents. As an adolescent he was a supporter of Queens Park Rangers, and he also sought even a football career contrary, but it soon became clear that Bates had for too little talent. He first made his money in a freight forwarding company and later in quarries, concrete companies and dairies. The Englishman was involved in various business enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s - including a project in the British Virgin Islands and the establishment of the Irish Trust Bank, which was sealed in 1976 and ultimately a large number of small Irish investors brought into financial difficulties. Bates was married twice and has five children. He currently lives in the tax haven of Monaco, and must under UK tax law, not more than ninety days per calendar year to spend in his native Britain.
Activities in football
The first post of president in a football club had the entrepreneur in the 1960s with Oldham Athletic. During this period he was also Chairman of Wigan Athletic in the short term. In 1982, Bates has bought Chelsea for the symbolic sum of one pound. When he took over the club, the Blues were in serious financial difficulties and had significant problems with hooligans in its own following. In his time these problems have been fixed, but the negative side of his commitment showed itself in the fact that he, the coach moved to above-average way, many of them due to controversial circumstances. Bates was until March 2004 - Roman Abramovich subsequently took over the club - President of the Blues and made Chelsea a permanent fixture in the English Premier League. The club won while under his reign, both in 1997 and in 2000 the FA Cup and another time in 1998 the League Cup. At European level, Chelsea could produce under Bates success by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Supercup 1998. At the end of his term of FC Chelsea, however, had amassed about 80 million pounds of debt.
In parallel, Bates was also involved in the construction of the new Wembley stadium, while from 1997 to 2001 chairman of the " Wembley National Stadium Ltd ".. In January 2005, Ken Bates bought 50 percent of the traditional English clubs Leeds United and secured the presidency of the financially strapped club.
- Football functionary (England)
- Entrepreneurs (United Kingdom)
- Entrepreneur ( 20th century)
- Entrepreneurs ( 21st century)
- Born in 1931
- Man