Only three Mexican teams are among the top ten clubs that sell the most shirts across the continent
Amaury Vergara, owner of Chivas, asked his fans to buy the team’s jersey to bring reinforcements, according to a 2019 study from the agency. Euromericas Sport Marketing, the rojiblanco team is the fifth in the Americas to sell the most shirts.
The residents of Guadalajara sold a total of 1 million 590 thousand units from August 2018 to August 2019, being the second team of the Liga MX in the Top 5, only behind America, who ranked third and had a sale of 1 million 717 thousand shirts.
This Thursday, via a live broadcast on Instagram, the boss of the Chivas He claimed he cannot give away shirts due to the crisis that Mexican football is experiencing as a result of the pandemic COVID-19, so he called to buy the official clothes.
– “Can you give me a Chivas shirt?” the follower of Chivas pointed out.
– “If you buy it, I’ll have them sign it, right now I can’t give t-shirts to everyone; I need you to support and buy t-shirts to bring reinforcements,” admitted Amaury Vergara.
According to the average price of the official Chivas shirt (men’s replica version, not the player edition) with a price of 1,599 pesos, in 2019 the club made a profit of about 2,542 million 410 pesos, which translates to 127 million dollars at the moment . exchange rate.
Only the Eagles made more money in this area with a total of 2.745 million 483 thousand pesos, about $ 137 million, from the sale of their shirts during the same period.
Even the same study, conducted nearly two years ago, identified the 10 clubs on the continent that sell the most clothing in which River Plate came first, Corinthians second, América third, Boca Juniors fourth and Chivas fifth.
Here are the top 10:
River Plate-2 million 270 thousand
Corinthians2 million 134 thousand
America-1 million 717 thousand
Boca Juniors1 million 622 thousand
Chivas-1 million 590 thousand
Flamengo-1 million 455 thousand
National athletics1 million 012 thousand
Monterrey1 million 678 thousand
Guild-Brazil 998 thousand 556
LA Galaxy-944 thousand 908