November 26 – Girls’s basketball sensation Caitlin Clark (pictured), who a season in the past was enjoying faculty basketball and has simply completed her first pro-season with the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, has joined the Cincinnati possession group bidding to carry an NWSL franchise to town.
The NWSL is anticipated to announce its sixteenth franchised membership earlier than the top of the 12 months. At the moment the NWSL is deciding between bids from Cincinnati, Cleveland and Denver for the growth slot that will see the workforce start play within the 2016 season.
MLS workforce FC Cincinnati’s possession group is main the bid and alongside Cleveland seems to be the favorite.
Boston have been the final NWSL franchise awarded in 2023 at a value of $53 million. Bay Metropolis FC, who started play this 12 months, paid the identical quantity for his or her growth slot.
With valuations of NWSL workforce skyrocketing – Angel Metropolis FC was the latest membership to see new house owners valuing the workforce at $250 million – the sixteenth franchise may value as a lot as $100 million, in accordance with some estimated.
When it comes to star energy in US girls’s workforce sports activities they don’t at present come any larger than Clark.
Having damaged each document within the faculty recreation to turn into the all-time NCAA Division 1 scorer she moved into the WNBA the place she gained the WNBA Rookie of the Yr award, made the All-WNBA First Group and WNBA All-Star Sport.
“The NWSL Cincinnati bid workforce is thrilled that Caitlin Clark has joined our possession group in pursuit of bringing a girls’s skilled soccer workforce to our metropolis,” stated an NWSL Cincinnati bid workforce assertion.
“Her ardour for the game, dedication to elevating girls’s sports activities in and across the Better Cincinnati area, and affect as an athlete and function mannequin for ladies and women around the globe, make her a significant a part of our compelling bid to turn into the sixteenth workforce within the NWSL.”
Cleveland additionally imagine they’ve a compelling bid, pushed by The Cleveland Soccer Group’s (CSG) securing of land to develop a downtown stadium. The Cleveland Metroparks Board of Park Commissioners introduced the acquisition of 13.6 acres of state land to construct a $150 million, 12,500-seat stadium on what’s at present undeveloped land within the metropolis’s downtown.
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