NEW YORK (Reuters) – Girls’s soccer mogul Michele Kang will reward $30 million to U.S. Soccer, the game’s nationwide governing physique mentioned on Tuesday, the most important donation ever directed for the organisation’s women and girls’s programmes.
The donation over the subsequent 5 years will assist develop aggressive alternatives for ladies {and professional} improvement for feminine gamers, in addition to ladies in teaching and referee roles.
“Michele Kang’s gift will transform soccer for women and girls in the United States,” U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone mentioned in an announcement. “It will impact generations of women and girls in our game.”
The donation comes simply months after america collected their fifth Olympic gold, a return to type for one of the vital dominant groups within the sport’s historical past following their disappointing displaying on the 2023 Girls’s World Cup.
Kang, whose Washington Spirit will compete within the NWSL championship title match towards the Orlando Pleasure this weekend, has emerged as one of the vital influential house owners within the sport.
Final yr she based the primary multi-team ladies’s soccer organisation that additionally encompasses French membership Olympique Lyonnais Feminin and English facet London Metropolis Lionesses.
“Women’s sports have been undervalued and overlooked for far too long,” Kang mentioned in an announcement.
“I am committed to raising the standard of excellence in women’s soccer — both on and off the pitch — by delivering the resources female athletes need to reach their full potential.”
