‘Bourne In The USA Tour’: VGK Owner Bill Foley’s Bournemouth Soccer Team Coming To U.S. To Play Another British Club In Santa Barbara In July
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
Bill Foley’s AFC Bournemouth Premier League soccer team is coming to the U.S. to play a match against Wrexham AFC, a fellow British soccer club.
Bournemouth, acquired by Vegas Golden Knights owner Foley in 2022, plays Wrexham at Harder Stadium at UC Santa Barbara July 20.
Naturally, it’s the “Bourne in the USA” tour for Foley’s soccer team.
The Santa Barbara soccer venue has a local connection to another business owned by Foley in Santa Barbara two hours north of Los Angeles.
His Foley Entertainment Group bought Hotel Californian, a 121-room resort in Santa Barbara, California near the Pacific Ocean, in 2021.
Included in the transaction is the hotel’s signature restaurant, Blackbird – an 88-seat, indoor/outdoor restaurant that will serve as the future home of a Foley Food & Wine Society tasting bar. The Foley Food & Wine Society tasting bar will be opening fall 2021.
“The expectation is that the AFCB team will spend at least part of their trip at Hotel Californian. There are multiple reasons to target California for the trip (including where they plan to train, Michael B Jordan being there, the opponents), but Bill’s other properties fit well too,” Foley spokesman Nate Ewell told LVSportsBiz.com.
