Four former USWNT players have successfully lobbied the NWSL to add a team to the Bay Area.
along the way. Wagner said she hopes that this new venture can continue the growth the NWSL has experienced in recent years; the league noted in its Tuesday announcement that this expansion, along with a previously announced expansion team headed for Utah, is"nearly doubling the league's footprint since beginning operations in 2012."
"Before it was kind of a heartstring decision, a moral decision," Wagner said of owning a women's soccer team, per ESPN."They weren't necessarily run like a business. I mean, the intentions were spot on. They wanted to see women's football here in the Bay Area because we do have such talent. But it wasn't looked at like a long-term investment, long-term project.
All that's currently known is this new team will compete in the league starting in spring of 2024, and will represent the Bay Area. A name and logo. There are also plans, as the Bay Area News Group reported, to invest in a future training facility using some of Sixth Street's funding. The Bay Area has seen two pro women's soccer teams in the past come and go between the San Jose CyberRays of the Women's United Soccer Association and the FC Gold Pride of the Women's Professional Soccer league. Both of those leagues flamed out — unlike the NWSL, which had
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