Inside U.S.-Owned Spanish Soccer Team RCD Mallorca

Real Club Deportivo Mallorca doesn’t like to follow scripts.

U.S. ownership—atypical in Spanish soccer—has been in place since 2016 and now oversees a veteran Mexican coach and stars from Kosovo to Senegal. The relatively modest island side has also tasted glory, lifting the Copa del Rey with famed striker Samuel Eto’o two decades ago, the zenith to a golden era.