High WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu has turn into a minority investor in Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League crew Bay FC, the membership introduced on Monday.
Ionescu, who has a spread of high-profile endorsement offers with Nike, Physique Armour and AT&T amongst others, will even function a industrial advisor to the membership and it is gamers.
The 27-year-old gained the WNBA title final season with New York Liberty and an Olympic gold medal with the USA crew on the Paris Olympics.
The California-born Ionescu grew up within the San Francisco Bay Space and mentioned she expects the crew to develop in recognition as girls’s membership soccer expands.
“I’ve full religion within the Membership’s imaginative and prescient and its potential to make a profound influence inside and past girls’s soccer,” she mentioned in an announcement.
“The Bay FC crew and I stay up for driving branding partnerships for the Bay FC athletes and contributing to the general success of the Membership.
“As somebody with deep ties to the Bay Space, this chance holds much more significance, and I’m actually honoured to be part of such a particular endeavour to proceed to develop girls’s sports activities,” she added.
Bay FC chief govt Brady Stewart mentioned that Ionescu’s involvement would assist the crew proceed to develop it is affect.
“Including her ardour and imaginative and prescient to what we’re constructing at Bay FC will enable us to additional disrupt the sports activities panorama,” she mentioned.
“Her roots within the Bay Space and dedication to being a catalyst for optimistic change in girls’s sports activities represents who we’re at Bay FC. We stay up for partnering together with her to proceed reaching our purpose of being a high world sports activities franchise,” she added.
The brand new NWSL season begins on March 14.
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