The Nashville side announced Monday that it had named former Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre as its CEO. The move comes five months after Nashville was granted an expansion club for the next wave of MLS growth. His hire was first reported by The Tennessean Monday morning.
“The opportunity to put Nashville on the national and international soccer map is a truly outstanding challenge, and I literally cannot wait to get started,” Ayre said in a statement. “Becoming chief executive officer of the Nashville MLS club is a unique opportunity in the global soccer community. To take what is essentially a blank sheet of paper and build an entire club is an amazing challenge, and one I am hugely excited about.