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By popular shareholding, you get a widespread distribution of ownership of shares of the company, rather than being owned by a limited number of members, is instead in the hands of the highest possible number of stakeholders, particularly investors, so-called "non-institutional" .
Involving a substantial number of subjects in the fortunes of the company, the shareholders popular has the ability to promote greater social and political stability with a more even income distribution, and allows for broad participation in the fate of society through the participation of a wide number of members to corporate meetings.
In practice, the shares of the company become the property of their sports fans, who also owned a single share, their ownership of a stake and enjoy all the rights and duties by law due to the individual member.

The Futbol Club Barcelona, with its approximately 163,000 members, is the largest example of popular shareholding in the world.

In Spain there are four big clubs who apply this model. Besides the already mentioned Barcelona, there are Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna.

In Britain the Ebbsfleet United Football Club was acquired by the project MyFootballClub.

In the wake of these examples, even in Italy did the Squadramia Sports Association, which in 2009 acquired 10% ownership Santarcangelo Amateur Sports Association.