After retiring from football, Lauren Holiday, a former World Cup champion, diagnosed with a brain tumor while pregnant, shifted her focus to women's sports advocacy. Initially uninterested in the limelight, she later realized her passion for women's equality and pay equity. Holiday co-invested in Angel City FC, making it the world's most valuable women's sports team, and recently joined the board of Mercury/13 to expand women's club ownership in Europe. She emphasizes the importance of player perspectives in shaping the future of women's sports.
I want women's sports to be seen differently from the top down, and I want the investment in women's sports to be astronomically higher and better than it's ever been seen before.
I had no interest truly in being seen, or in anything. Then a couple of years passed and I thought 'You know what? I'm passionate about women, I'm passionate about injustice...'
A player's perspective in club ownership is vital if the game is going to adequately evolve and reach its potential.
Holiday invested in Angel City FC which became the most valuable women's sports team in the world, illustrating her commitment to women's sports development.
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