High WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu has turn into a minority investor in Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League group Bay FC, the membership introduced on Monday.
Ionescu, who has a variety of high-profile endorsement offers with Nike, Physique Armour and AT&T amongst others, may even function a business 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 group on the Paris Olympics.
The California-born Ionescu grew up within the San Francisco Bay Space and mentioned she expects the group to develop in recognition as ladies’s membership soccer expands.
“I’ve full religion within the Membership’s imaginative and prescient and its potential to make a profound impression inside and past ladies’s soccer,” she mentioned in an announcement.
“The Bay FC group and I sit 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 ladies’s sports activities,” she added.
Bay FC chief government Brady Stewart mentioned that Ionescu’s involvement would assist the group 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 constructive change in ladies’s sports activities represents who we’re at Bay FC. We sit up for partnering along with her to proceed reaching our aim of being a prime international sports activities franchise,” she added.
The brand new NWSL season begins on March 14.
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