Morgan: This will be the best World Cup ever (1:11)Alex Morgan talks about what this upcoming World Cup will do for women’s football and what it means to play in her fourth World Cup for the USWNT. (1:11)
LOS ANGELES — What becomes rapidly apparent in conversation with Angel City FC president Julie Uhrman, especially with her presence magnified by the club’s otherwise empty Santa Monica offices early on a Monday morning, is that she doesn’t do many things by half measures. It’s especially clear when it comes to the goals of the NWSL side that she helped co-found. Thus, the club’s planned “Equity House” event in Sydney this month, coinciding with the staging of the 2023 Women’s World Cup across Australia and New Zealand, has lofty goals.
That shouldn’t be surprising even without that insight into the executive, given the ambitious nature of the club’s genesis as a majority female-owned startup that, per Hollywood star and co-founder Natalie Portman, had “equity and impact at the forefront of everything we did.” Uhrman, for her part, has spoken of the NWSL becoming the third-most popular sporting league in the U.S., alongside a goal of the Angel City brand becoming the women’s sports equivalent of the New York Yankees when it comes to cultural cache and recognition around the globe.