Angel City FC selected 18-year-old phenom Alyssa Thompson with the No. 1 overall pick at the 2023 NWSL draft.
And as Thompson prepares for her first professional season, she is bringing her 17-year-old sister Gisele along for the ride.
A star in her own right at Harvard-Westlake Prep and in the U.S. youth soccer system, Gisele Thompson will join Angel City FC for training throughout the season, as will fellow teenager Mia Minestrella, the team announced Tuesday. Thompson and Minestrella both featured on Angel City FC’s preseason roster.
“I always have someone with me, and that’s Gisele,” Alyssa said of her younger sister last August. “When she’s gone, it’s kind of weird.”
The Thompson sisters took the soccer world by storm in 2022, starting in May, when the pair became the first high school athletes to sign an NIL deal with Nike.
Elder sister Alyssa already has experience with the U.S. women’s national team, earning her first two caps last fall and making her debut at England’s Wembley Stadium, while Gisele played for the USYNT at the U-17 World Cup.
While both committed to play college soccer at Stanford, Alyssa decided to forgo her…
