‘Avengers’ Director Joe Russo Joins Board Of English Soccer Team Sheffield United
deadline.comHollywood’s unexpected love affair with lower league English football is continuing. Avengers director Joe Russo has been named on the board of Championship side Sheffield United, after the club was taken over by a U.S.-led consortium, COH Sports, last month.
He was also named as an investor. Russo is the latest Hollywood figure to invest in an English soccer team, coming after the likes of Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who hosted Russo at a match in Wales in April 2023 in which the Red Dragons were promoted back into the English Football League.
Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady is part of the group that owns Birmingham City. In a press release announcing new board members, Sheffield United called Russo a “record-breaking director and producer who has been responsible for some of the most successful and culturally relevant global content.” Russo, along with brother Anthony Russo, directed Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
The brothers are also directing two more MCU features, Secret War and Doomsday, which they teased last week, and have in recent years overseen the creation of Prime Video’s Citadel TV universe along with several other projects.
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