Chris Canetti wants to carry the World Cup to Houston.
The former president of the Houston Dynamo is now the leader of the city’s 2026 World Cup bid committee, operating to create an everlasting impact.
Beyond the infrastructure and competencies of the Texan metropolis, Canetti admitted “we’re bringing matters to the desk that handiest Houston can do to assist boost the sport. We’re building a legacy.”
Almost 3 years after forming the committee, Canetti is months far from locating out Houston’s fate.
It all started once I were given recruited for a job in football in New York City with the former Metro Stars, which is now the Red Bulls. I didn't recognize an excessive amount of about football, however I went on the interview for some thing purpose and I was bought the imaginative and prescient on wherein the club changed into stepping into New York and wherein the league was going.
After a few months of from side to side, I changed into supplied a task as the senior director of advertising and marketing for the Metro Stars. Literally the primary expert soccer fit I ever noticed turned into my first day on the activity there, and I right away connected with the sport.
MLS turned into most effective five years vintage or so at that time, however I genuinely fell in love with the membership, fell in love with the task, the league and wherein it changed into going.
Over time, I climbed the ladder there to turn out to be assistant trendy supervisor and paintings alongside Alexi Lalas. He allowed me to be around him and study the technical side of the commercial enterprise I became in. That turned into surely my intro to the technical side of the business being round him. Eventually the group became bought to the Red Bulls and we we’re all let go.
I suppose I had a quite properly recognition in Major League Soccer at that point, so I became requested to help out with the launching of the brand new Houston MLS assignment.
I became offered the role of Chief Operating Officer down in Houston, and I took it. I came down right here in 2006, and we had incredible success.
