Tennis icon Serena Williams and auto-racing star Lewis Hamilton are among the financial supporters of a bid to purchase English football club Chelsea, which is being sold by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich amid his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to Sky Sports and Reuters, Williams and Hamilton have pledged around $13 million each to a consortium led by Martin Broughton, the former Liverpool and British Airways chairman who is leading one of three groups that are bidding to buy Chelsea, one of the most decorated and renowned football teams in the world.