Westborough youth soccer club acquired by national sports operator
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Westborough-based youth soccer club BEST FC Soccer Club has been acquired by national youth sports club and event operator 3STEP Sports LLC, which has its main office in Andover.
Financial terms of the deal, announced on November 28, were not disclosed.
BEST FC started in 1999 when Maria Mumby and her husband Paul Mumby launched a series of summer camps in Central Massachusetts. The idea came to Maria while she was studying for her MBA in the Netherlands in 1996. Her then boyfriend Paul, who was born in England, was already running camps throughout New England. When they decided to launch BEST, which stands for Best English Soccer Training, they asked some of Paul’s English friends to come and coach.
BEST began to form partnerships with towns and soccer programs in Central Massachusetts before the couple started their own club in 2011. BEST FC started with one girls team and now has more than 30 youth teams.
Paul is a physical education teacher in the Westborough school system and has coached the Westborough High School girls’ varsity soccer team for 16 years.
3STEP operates in 43 states and serves more than 3.2 million athletes in nine sports. The company was founded by David Geaslen, who, according to his LinkedIn page, started Scouts Inc., which was purchased by ESPN, and worked as the vice president of high school sports and recruiting.
The company was founded in 2016 and has been purchasing youth teams, clubs and tournaments across the country over the past six years.
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