Some of the biggest women’s sports stars in Bay Area history are about to change the region’s sporting landscape.
Four former U.S. national team stars and Santa Clara Broncos — Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner — have completed their nearly three-year mission to bring a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The NWSL announced Tuesday morning that the league has awarded expansion rights to its 14th team to an investment group led by the four former U.S. women’s national team stars and Sixth Street, a global investment firm, and other prominent women executives and community leaders.