Williams, Natalie Portman, Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Eva Longoria, Billie Jean King, and Uzo Aduba all own equity in Angel City, along with dozens of other high-profile women after backing the Angel City project, with former England footballer Eni Aluko hired as the club’s first sporting director.

There has been some specticism over Angel City’s ambitions to make a mark in the NWSL, but Aluku insists their ambitions are all real. Read MOre