City Kid's Elite League Dream Derailed by Final Match Failure

Angel City players huddle after practice at the team training facility in Thousand Oaks in February. Angel City kicks off its fifth season on Sunday. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) When Julie Uhrman and a fledgling ownership group that would quickly grow to more than 100 announced plans to start a women’s soccer club in the summer of 2020, the goal was to build something unique and different.

And in that she was wildly successful: four years after its founding, Angel City became the most valuable team in the history of women’s professional sports while funneling millions of dollars to community programs throughout Southern California. What the team hasn’t done is win. And that, Uhrman said, has to change.

“It’s time to win,” said Uhrman, who this month is stepping down as the team’s chief executive to take a new role as principal advisor. “We’re in L. A.

We live in a city of champions and we want to be on the same mantle as them. It’s a process but we have the right team in place, on and off the pitch, to accomplish that. ” Read more: After split with sister, Gisele Thompson seeks own identity with Angel City and U.