Goals Soccer Centres agrees £73m takeover by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Earlier this month, Goals also confirmed that private equity firm Patron Capital, the controlling shareholder in rival Powerleague, had also expressed an interest in acquiring the company. The acquisition by Teachers, which is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada with around £73bn in net assets, will need the backing of shareholders holding at least 75pc of the company's shares. Teachers, owner of the National Lottery operator Camelot and the Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey team, said it had the backing of investors holding 27pc of the company's shares. Goals Soccer Centre has been run by Keith Rogers since 2000, when he led a management buy-in. He holds 8.4pc of the company. In the year to December 31, 2011, Goals had revenues of £30.4m and pre-tax profits of £9.2m.