“Fans just want to come together once every other week with 26,000 of their friends for 90 minutes and cheer on their team regardless of race, regardless of politics.”

On this episode of Fired Up, Dennis Carroll, COO of FC Cincinnati talks about how the people of Cincinnati have embraced the team and the care being taken to welcome the fans especially as construction progresses on their new downtown stadium.

Carroll oversees all internal operations for the club, including finance, administration, IT, operations and construction. He joined FCC after a 10-year stint with the Philadelphia Union where he ended his stay as the club’s Senior Vice President of Finance. Carroll began his professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) before he joined the Philadelphia Eagles’ finance staff as Financial Analyst, where he oversaw the financial planning for non-football events at Lincoln Financial Field, managed merchandising’s financial operations and was part of the team’s advance travel staff. Carroll is a Certified Public Accountant.

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