Ownership Group

Nearly 40 years ago, two local kids met on a soccer field, chasing dreams bigger than they could name. They didn’t know it then, but that moment was the first spark of something much bigger. For lifelong friends and soccer believers Matt Valentine and Sam Morton, Atlético Dallas is the dream realized—built with the help of close friends and partners Dan McAlone and Luther Ott. The boys who once imagined becoming stars now stand at the start of something even greater: co-founders of North Texas’s newest professional club.