Willow Bay and her husband, Disney CEO Bob Iger, are close to purchasing the controlling stake of Angel City FC. There’s no public timeline for when the deal will be done. Still, the new ownership group — and the numbers around their investment, somewhere in the ballpark of $300 million — has reignited discussions about NWSL club valuations and the rapid growth of women’s soccer here in the United States.
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Angel City forward Christen Press, who was also the team’s first signing, spoke to The Athletic while on her way to training on Wednesday morning. Immediately, she noted that she was following the potential sale through media reports herself. Her reaction — and that of her fellow players — was simply one of excitement.
Press said those numbers shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. Not if you’ve been paying attention, anyway.
“When you start to see valuations as a player, and as someone who has a very vested interest in the business of women’s sports, there’s two things,” she continued. “First thing I think is, ‘Hell yeah.’ This is exactly how it should be, right? On our podcast, we just talked to Ali Krieger about how, as a novice broadcaster, she’s making more money than she did as a…
