U.S. entrepreneur Mac Lackey "has built and sold five companies," according to Katherine Peralta of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. The most recent being Kyck, an online registration platform focused on football, that in May "was sold to a Minneapolis company called Sport Ngin." That company "was then purchased last week by NBC Sports." Lackey is currently in Barcelona, Spain, where his Charlotte-based sports management firm ISL Futbol has an office. Acting as an agent for La Liga club Barcelona, the company "is working to bring more FC Barcelona camps and schools to the U.S., including an academy in Charlotte that’s slated to open this fall."
His goal: put Charlotte on the map "as a soccer destination, not unlike how SwimMAC makes Charlotte a hot spot for elite swimmers." He said, "I’m certainly really interested in Charlotte developing as a soccer city, but most of my personal focus is on the international opportunity. Building a true international hub where teams like FC Barcelona choose to build academies, and some of the best players in the country choose to move to Charlotte and train in those academies" (
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 7/18).
