Businesswoman Michele Kang has pledged $30 million to US Soccer, which US Soccer President Cindy Barlow Cone says will “transform soccer for women and girls in the United States” and “impact generations of women and girls.”
The donation is the largest ever given to US Soccer by a woman. It will ensure that every player has the chance to be seen by providing more opportunities to even more players and scaling up talent identification tools and camps.
Kang’s gift will also allow US Soccer to double the number of National Team camps, with a specific focus on funding camps for women and girls, bringing in 12 times the number of players into the Youth National Team scheme and giving access to 100,000 female players.
This isn’t Kang’s first time investing in soccer. The American businesswoman has experience investing in women’s sport globally, and has said: “Women’s sports have been undervalued and overlooked for far too long.”
Who is Michele Kang?
Kang made her money in healthcare IT and only became interested in soccer after she attended a reception to celebrate the US Women’s National Team winning the 2019 World Cup. Before this, Kang says she “didn’t even know who Messi was.”
This reception was where Kang first learned about…
