By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Walt Disney World said on Wednesday it would sponsor Orlando?s new Major League Soccer team, which plays its inaugural match on Sunday against a fellow expansion club from New York. The sponsorship by the Walt Disney Co-owned theme park is expected to raise Disney?s profile in Brazil, home of the Orlando team's star player Kaka, and in Latin America generally where soccer is a national pastime in almost every country, a joint news release said. Their top destination was Orlando, leading Brazilians to overtake the British as Florida?s largest group of overseas visitors by country of origin, the figures showed. A Disney spokesman said the company's policy is not to release financial information, but a source familiar with the details said it was "a seven-figure deal." The sponsorship makes Disney World the soccer team?s official theme park, resort destination, cruise line and vacation club under terms of the deal.
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