Owners of D.C. United Soccer Team Are Said to Consider Selling<br />In recent weeks, the team has reached out to several important people within the Washington sports community, including Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins,<br />and Ted Leonsis, owner of the N. B.A.’s Washington Wizards and the N. H.L.’s Capitals, the people said.<br />By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKINJULY 30, 2017<br />The owners of D. C. United, Washington’s Major League Soccer team, are quietly weighing<br />a sale of the franchise, people briefed on the discussions said on Sunday.<br />owners also own professional soccer teams, among them Arthur Blank, who owns the Atlanta Falcons<br />and Atlanta United, and Robert Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution.<br />As they resumed exploring a sale of some, or all, of Mr. Chang’s former stake, they also began to consider selling the team, the people said.<br />The potential sale arose from efforts by D. C. United’s majority owners to sell a 35 percent stake once held by the investor Will Chang.<br />Besides owning D. C. United, Erick Thohir is a part owner and president of Italy’s Inter Milan soccer club.<br />He previously owned a minority stake in the Philadelphia 76ers, after having been involved in the Indonesian basketball league,<br />but he eventually sold his holdings about the time that he bought Inter Milan
