Women’s soccer is riding high on the wave created by the U.S. women’s national team’s World Cup championship last summer. Last season, NWSL attendance rose 22%, ending at 792,409, a season record. Looking to capitalize, a star-studded roster of powerful women has joined forces to bring a top-tier professional women’s soccer team to California. Fourteen former U.S. women’s national soccer team players have also joined the group. Last year, she was quoted as saying it was that organization’s priority to bring an NWSL team to the city.

Source: Forbes July 21, 2020 12:41 UTC