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But this isn’t the Giants and A’s we’re talking about, but rather \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">San Francisco’s El Farolito soccer team vs. Oakland Roots Soccer Club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This crucial match, kicking off at Cal State East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, marks the third round of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/\">U.S. Open Cup\u003c/a> — the oldest soccer competition in the country that brings teams together that usually play in different leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stream the game \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">live here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about this uniquely Bay Area face-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The taquería that started a soccer team\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the San Francisco team name sounds familiar to you, that’s because, yes, it’s named after the longstanding local taquería chain El Farolito, with 12 locations all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Santiago López, head coach and general manager, El Farolito soccer team\"]‘The group is very motivated for this opportunity.’[/pullquote]The taquería chain’s founder Salvador López, who passed away in 2021, started the team in 1985, and whose players sport a bright yellow and blue soccer kit in the same color palette you’ll see in any of the El Farolito taquerías. Since its inception in 1985, the team — which has now risen to play in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) — has charted a very successful path for itself, winning multiple regional and national championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Farolito players balance all the responsibilities of being on the team with other full-time jobs. Some, like goalkeeper Julian Escobar, grew up in the Bay Area and came up playing for other local teams. But many in the team were recruited from professional teams across Latin America — striker Dembor Benson, for example, was a professional player in Honduras before joining El Farolito, \u003ca href=\"https://thecup.us/2024/04/15/2024-us-open-cup-round-2-dembor-benson-of-el-farolito-voted-thecup-us-player-of-the-round/\">where he has stood out in this year’s Open Cup, scoring the winning goal in the last two matches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a special energy this year among the team, says head coach and general manager Santiago López, who is Salvador’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11961286,news_11952128,news_11915080\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The team started training in early January, much earlier than in previous years – something that combined with extra preseason games “really helped us out to get the team together and get into the competition mentality and the weekly routine,” López says. “If it wasn’t for the early start, we wouldn’t be in this type of rhythm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Win it all or lose it all in one game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The El Farolito team has started the season without missing a single beat. The team is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npsl.com/schedule-2024/\">currently leading the standings for their conference in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL\u003c/a>) with three wins and one draw. All of this is happening as they \u003ci>also \u003c/i>play in the Open Cup, where teams from all over the country compete in a knockout format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was El Farolito’s first win in this year’s competition — against Timbers 2, the reserve squad for the Portland Timbers of the Major League Soccer — \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/burritooooooooooal-el-farolito-team-beats-major-league-soccer-affiliate/\">that brought renewed attention to the team and its unique standing in San Francisco’s Mission District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot more interviews and seen more photographers coming out,” López says of the heightened attention on his team. 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With two goals in that match, forward Johnny Rodriguez became the team’s all-time league scorer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The knockout format of the Open Cup will make Tuesday’s game especially exciting, says Tommy Hodul, vice president of public relations for the Roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can win it all or lose it all in one game,” Hodul says, adding that “you have to prepare just as well as you do for a USL Championship game — no matter who the opponent is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite playing in different leagues, the Roots and El Farolito usually play each other during the preseason, and Hodul says his team is “well aware of what [El Farolito] brings, and the talent that they have on the roster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playing against El Farolito, he says, is “a really good test for our guys getting ready for the USL Championship season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer is here to stay in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For longtime soccer fans all over the Bay Area, Tuesday’s game is another example of how much soccer has grown in strength locally. In a time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">when other sports are seeing teams leave the Bay\u003c/a>, soccer’s role in the region’s identity has only grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Bay FC kicked off their season — a first for the team and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">for Northern California, its first National Women’s Soccer League team\u003c/a>. A year before that, Oakland Soul — part of the Roots organization — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">joined the USL W League\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Afifa Tawil works for the women’s and non-binary semi-pro ultimate frisbee team, \u003ca href=\"https://www.falconsultimate.com/\">the San Francisco Falcons\u003c/a>, and she’s noticed something: The Bay Area has a men’s pro football team, a men’s pro basketball team, a men’s pro soccer team, a men’s pro hockey team, and (at least for now) two men’s pro baseball teams.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of sports. But no women’s pro team!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she wants to know why. “Why isn’t there a professional women’s or non-binary team in the Bay Area?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afifa thinks our area has a lot going for it: a big, outdoors-y population and progressive values that would appear supportive of women’s sports. Other places have women’s pro sports teams. Why not here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The good news first\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, first off: There is one coming. The newest team in the National Women’s Soccer League, the Bay FC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952128/bay-areas-first-professional-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-with-public-launch\">held a launch event last month\u003c/a> and they are getting ready for their debut season in spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took a long time to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brandi Chastain, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-A1-Rz_pks\">of World Cup fame\u003c/a>, it took almost two years to get the team off the ground. Chastain, who grew up playing on the boys team in San José, is one of four founders of the Bay FC — all of whom grew up or live in the Bay Area, and all of whom played on the U.S. national team. They said it has taken years and multiple attempts to line up investment partners, media and interest. And that interest is finally building and momentum is shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has to be the right time and the right moment with the right people,” she said at the launch event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other piece of semi-good news: There actually have been women’s pro teams in the Bay Area before — from basketball to softball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bad news: They all folded. The past attempts at women’s pro teams couldn’t survive. Which means Tawil’s question still stands. Why exactly did it take so long for the Bay Area to get this newest professional women’s team? Shouldn’t women’s sports be big here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before professional sports — men’s or women’s — really existed in a modern form, elite women’s sports could be found throughout the Bay Area. In fact, the first collegiate women’s basketball ever played was here, between Stanford and UC Berkeley back in 1896.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1132px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/07/29/why-doesnt-the-bay-area-have-a-pro-womens-sports-team/sf-call-image-1132x917/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11956654\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1.jpeg\" alt=\"an old-fashioned drawing of women on a basketball court\" width=\"1132\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1.jpeg 1132w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-800x648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-1020x826.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-160x130.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1132px) 100vw, 1132px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist from The San Francisco Call captured the historic basketball game. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Call/Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sport had only been invented a few years earlier and you probably wouldn’t recognize it now. Nine women played on a half-size court, wearing the athletic clothing of the day: knee-length bloomers, tall socks, and long-sleeve sweaters. Still, it was a hard-fought battle. \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> wrote, at the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“From the very first the game was snappy. The bewitched pigskin seemed to be everywhere and nowhere … Sometimes with a slump and a slide three girls would dive for the ball and end in an inextricable heap … In less time than it takes to read it they were all planted firmly on their two feet, flushed, perspiring … oblivious of everything except that ball.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A crowd of 700 women cheered on the teams and, even though men weren’t allowed in the gym, many watched through the windows. Stanford won, and when they returned to campus they were greeted by crowds and the famous Stanford band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were pockets like this throughout the Bay Area during the late 1800s and early 1900s, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/kpe/libertirita.html\">Rita Liberti\u003c/a>, a professor of sports history at CSU East Bay. “Softball was huge among a range of communities across class and race and ethnicity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball was played in Chinatown and around San Francisco. Women’s swimming was big, especially in Santa Clara. San Francisco even had a pro co-ed roller derby team — called the Bay Bombers — who played mostly at Kezar Stadium and Cow Palace and, at one point, drew 1 million spectators a year along with television broadcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was running. For example, the Dipsea Race, in Marin County, was popular for elite competitive women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 1918 to 1922, it was really an incredible run, hundreds of participants, thousands of people watching,” said Liberti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/07/29/why-doesnt-the-bay-area-have-a-pro-womens-sports-team/i/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11956841\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i.jpeg\" alt=\"an older black and white photo shows a crowd of women dressed in old-fashioned athlete gear gathered at a start line\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i.jpeg 920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dipsea ‘Hike’ for women drew huge numbers from 1918–1922. \u003ccite>(Dipsea Race Committee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was called a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dipsea.org/news/2018-02-11-womenshikehistory.php\">hike\u003c/a>” to get around bans at the time on women running competitively. But despite that, and even wearing long skirts and boots, the winning woman in 1922 covered the mountainous 7.5-mile course in one hour and 12 minutes. It’s a time that would place her in the top quarter of athletes at this year’s race. Her “hike” was most definitely a run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about girls and women who were kind of everyday athletes. But we’re also talking about elite athleticism, women who were really skilled,” said Liberti. “And all of this is happening in the San Francisco Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, we \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a place for elite women’s sports. But then came the pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A 50-year ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every time women found a place for elite athleticism in the first half of the century, there came periodic backlash. Just a few years after that first basketball game, Stanford put an end to all intercollegiate women’s sports for fear of the stress on women’s bodies. A conservative wave then pushed across the country starting in the 1920s, seen across all aspects of life. And, while small fringe pockets for women to thrive could continue to be found, the Bay Area was not immune to conservative fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he reason why the Dipsea Hike, the race, ended in 1922, is that community leaders felt it was too harsh for women to continue running that race. And so there’s still those combination [of] fears about female frailty, like their ovaries are going to fall out or something if they run up and down a basketball court, or that they’ll become too mannish,” said Liberti. “The Bay Area may seem intensely progressive. But it carries with it ideas about gender, and we’re not immune from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the last Dipsea women’s hike in 1922, the race wouldn’t open back up to women for five decades — until 1971.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened across many women’s sports, with many facing decades of being barred from participating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that finally changed, after so many years of being banned or limited, building a foundation back up for women’s sports was slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Title IX — the landmark legislation that banned gender discrimination — passed a year later, in 1972, it wasn’t until 1982 that the NCAA even added women’s basketball. That’s nearly 90 years after that first Stanford-Cal game was played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by the 1970s, modern pro men’s sports as we think of them were really taking shape with money, sponsors, tickets and TV deals. This is when we first see an attempt at professional women’s teams, too. But they were on the back foot, having to catch up to the audience and investment that men’s teams had built.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet the SF Pioneers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was then, in 1979, that San Francisco got a women’s professional basketball team: the SF Pioneers. They joined the brand new, first of its kind, women’s pro basketball league, which called itself the WBL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a dream come true for me, because I never thought the United States would ever have a women’s league,” said \u003ca href=\"https://thelegends.org/our-team/\">Cardte Hicks\u003c/a>, one of the women on that team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBkMz2ix2_0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks had played for CSU Northridge and had a 42-inch vertical jump. She was recruited to San Francisco by the coach, Frank LaPorte, who had heard of her and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/Inspiring-dunks-of-Stanford-s-Belibi-echo-16036458.php\">her famous dunking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never even knew that dunking was something spectacular. I just thought it was fun to be able to get up that high,” she said, “He had heard a lot about me playing in AAU. I played for my brothers, because they wouldn’t allow women to play, so they’d dress me up like a boy, tape my boobs down, what little bit I did have,” she said. “And people would come out because they’d heard about that girl that could jump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pioneers played at the Civic Center and were supported by Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing I can truly say is that San Francisco showed some love, in the gay community, more so than any community. They were just so supportive. They wanted this to grow,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the players didn’t get paid much and, after the novelty wore off, they didn’t get much media attention or marketing either. “We didn’t get marketed like they do with the WNBA. We didn’t have a lot of money. Me personally, I’d have played for nothing, as long as I can get out there and play,” said Hicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much did she get paid? About $1,500 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956859\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-800x1306.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of 4 women on a basketball court. Three of them wear dark uniforms, and one is in a white uniform. The 2 women in the middle ground are leaping into the air after a basketball that is above them out of frame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-800x1306.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-160x261.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-941x1536.jpg 941w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Pioneers, a women’s professional basketball team, playing a game in the first national league on Dec. 30, 1980. \u003ccite>(Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The players were good, though, she said. Imagine if they’d had the opportunities available now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the league folded, it was a heartbreaker for all of us,” she said. By 1981, the WBL was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, many of those players, including Hicks, were honored by the WNBA and inducted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbhof.com/\">Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame\u003c/a>. But back in the early ’80s, without enough capital or coverage, the WBL couldn’t last. The team and league shut down and Hicks went back to playing overseas where there were more opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened to a lot of the newly formed women’s pro teams during the ’70s and ’80s. They keep getting shortchanged and shut down, struggling to catch up to the head start the men’s teams had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these women’s pro sport leagues are short lived,” said Liberti, “Like they come and they go, they’re in and they’re out. They don’t have funding. There’s no capital. There’s no media following them at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern continued for decades. There was the San Jose Sunbirds, a pro softball team, which was later followed by the California Sunbirds in Stockton, which were part of the on-and-off National Pro Fastpitch league. There was the FC Gold Pride, part of one of the early women’s pro soccer leagues, who played in Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been a number of different women’s pro teams in the Bay Area over the years, but they haven’t lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are things finally changing? Has the time finally come for one to succeed here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A shift happening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back to the launch of the new women’s pro soccer team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think sometimes people are resistant to understanding what is possible if they haven’t seen it done before,” said Aly Wagner, another one of the four founders of the Bay FC. Wagner also played on the national team and in previous women’s pro leagues — none of which lasted. “We’re in a very different place now than where we were then. And one of the things that I keep coming back to is that there were always gatekeepers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Wagner means is that for a long time the people who make the decisions in regards to sports funding kept saying: “No point in investing in women’s sports; no one wants to watch women’s sports; don’t put them on TV.” And so nothing happened. There was no investment, media or marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, though, in July 2023, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/2023-womens-world-cup-breaks-ticket-sale-records-viewership-way-up-over-2019/\">Women’s World Cup\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/232-million-watched-live-broadcasts-of-2022-tour-de-france-femmes/\">Tour de France Femmes\u003c/a> draw millions of viewers, it’s hard not to notice a shift happening globally. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/ncaa-womens-basketball-final-ratings-record-c8a9f218\">Almost 10 million people tuned in for the women’s March Madness final\u003c/a>. WNBA opening weekend viewership was up 100%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37630607/women-attendances-dominated-european-football-2022\">The three most attended soccer games in Europe last year were all women’s matches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear there is money to be made — and that’s what’s changing. Investors now see there’s a market, an audience, an entire base of women’s sports fans who are not being served. And with the potential for profit, comes funding, which brings broadcast TV deals. And since you can’t be a fan of what you can’t see, that brings more viewers and more fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I think that people are starting to understand that the momentum is there, the data is there. Everything is signaling that this is the right time,” Wagner said. “It might have been the right time before, but now it’s \u003cem>really\u003c/em> the right time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A row of people smile at the camera, they are all wearing items of clothing with the logo for a women's soccer team called "Bay FC."\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheryl Sandberg, Danielle Slaton, Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne and Aly Wagner pose for a photo with other attendees at a kickoff event for Bay FC, the Bay Area’s first team in the National Women’s Soccer League, at the Presidio in San Francisco, on June 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Bay FC team launch event, fans were excited too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I’m so excited,” said Deepa Patel. “I started watching the NWSL after the 2015 World Cup and since then I’ve just been waiting for a team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we have a women’s team in Northern California. We don’t have to fly to Portland, we don’t have to go to L.A., we don’t have to fly to San Diego. Finally we have something representing Northern California, and the Bay Area,” said Monica MacMillan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have always been women’s sports in the Bay Area. There are professional runners, cyclists, tennis players, swimmers, and ice-skaters. There are semi-pro teams here, too. But now it might really be time for a fully-fledged, fully-funded major pro team that lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one last obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also efforts to bring a WNBA expansion team here, though the commissioner has said “\u003ca href=\"https://justwomenssports.com/reads/wnba-expansion-teams-timeline-cathy-engelbert-commissioner/\">not yet\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is another factor that answers Afifa Tawil’s original question. It can be tough to start teams in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s often easier to start out and build in smaller markets, especially during the survival mode women’s sports have historically existed in. In small markets, you can sometimes build women’s teams as a kind of homegrown oddity attraction. The Bay Area, by contrast, is a little hard for people to get their heads around, a little hard to conquer for any one new team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Bay Area is perhaps daunting to a lot of people because we have so much going on there,” said Wagner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s so spread out, so diverse, there’s so many other things to do besides sit inside and watch sports on TV. We’re not always considered a great sports market. But Brandi Chastain disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area is the best sports town and we’re going to prove it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay FC starts play in the spring and after that, who knows. Maybe a WNBA team in Oakland. Or dream big: A softball team in Hayward; a women’s hockey team in San José. Momentum is building. As the women’s soccer fans like to say: LFG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Afifa Tawil works for the women’s and non-binary semi-pro ultimate frisbee team, \u003ca href=\"https://www.falconsultimate.com/\">the San Francisco Falcons\u003c/a>, and she’s noticed something: The Bay Area has a men’s pro football team, a men’s pro basketball team, a men’s pro soccer team, a men’s pro hockey team, and (at least for now) two men’s pro baseball teams.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of sports. But no women’s pro team!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she wants to know why. “Why isn’t there a professional women’s or non-binary team in the Bay Area?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afifa thinks our area has a lot going for it: a big, outdoors-y population and progressive values that would appear supportive of women’s sports. Other places have women’s pro sports teams. Why not here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The good news first\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, first off: There is one coming. The newest team in the National Women’s Soccer League, the Bay FC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952128/bay-areas-first-professional-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-with-public-launch\">held a launch event last month\u003c/a> and they are getting ready for their debut season in spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took a long time to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brandi Chastain, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-A1-Rz_pks\">of World Cup fame\u003c/a>, it took almost two years to get the team off the ground. Chastain, who grew up playing on the boys team in San José, is one of four founders of the Bay FC — all of whom grew up or live in the Bay Area, and all of whom played on the U.S. national team. They said it has taken years and multiple attempts to line up investment partners, media and interest. And that interest is finally building and momentum is shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has to be the right time and the right moment with the right people,” she said at the launch event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other piece of semi-good news: There actually have been women’s pro teams in the Bay Area before — from basketball to softball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bad news: They all folded. The past attempts at women’s pro teams couldn’t survive. Which means Tawil’s question still stands. Why exactly did it take so long for the Bay Area to get this newest professional women’s team? Shouldn’t women’s sports be big here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before professional sports — men’s or women’s — really existed in a modern form, elite women’s sports could be found throughout the Bay Area. In fact, the first collegiate women’s basketball ever played was here, between Stanford and UC Berkeley back in 1896.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1132px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/07/29/why-doesnt-the-bay-area-have-a-pro-womens-sports-team/sf-call-image-1132x917/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11956654\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1.jpeg\" alt=\"an old-fashioned drawing of women on a basketball court\" width=\"1132\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1.jpeg 1132w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-800x648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-1020x826.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/SF-Call-image-1132x917-1-160x130.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1132px) 100vw, 1132px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist from The San Francisco Call captured the historic basketball game. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Call/Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sport had only been invented a few years earlier and you probably wouldn’t recognize it now. Nine women played on a half-size court, wearing the athletic clothing of the day: knee-length bloomers, tall socks, and long-sleeve sweaters. Still, it was a hard-fought battle. \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> wrote, at the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“From the very first the game was snappy. The bewitched pigskin seemed to be everywhere and nowhere … Sometimes with a slump and a slide three girls would dive for the ball and end in an inextricable heap … In less time than it takes to read it they were all planted firmly on their two feet, flushed, perspiring … oblivious of everything except that ball.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A crowd of 700 women cheered on the teams and, even though men weren’t allowed in the gym, many watched through the windows. Stanford won, and when they returned to campus they were greeted by crowds and the famous Stanford band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were pockets like this throughout the Bay Area during the late 1800s and early 1900s, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/kpe/libertirita.html\">Rita Liberti\u003c/a>, a professor of sports history at CSU East Bay. “Softball was huge among a range of communities across class and race and ethnicity,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball was played in Chinatown and around San Francisco. Women’s swimming was big, especially in Santa Clara. San Francisco even had a pro co-ed roller derby team — called the Bay Bombers — who played mostly at Kezar Stadium and Cow Palace and, at one point, drew 1 million spectators a year along with television broadcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there was running. For example, the Dipsea Race, in Marin County, was popular for elite competitive women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From 1918 to 1922, it was really an incredible run, hundreds of participants, thousands of people watching,” said Liberti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/07/29/why-doesnt-the-bay-area-have-a-pro-womens-sports-team/i/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11956841\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i.jpeg\" alt=\"an older black and white photo shows a crowd of women dressed in old-fashioned athlete gear gathered at a start line\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i.jpeg 920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/i-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dipsea ‘Hike’ for women drew huge numbers from 1918–1922. \u003ccite>(Dipsea Race Committee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was called a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dipsea.org/news/2018-02-11-womenshikehistory.php\">hike\u003c/a>” to get around bans at the time on women running competitively. But despite that, and even wearing long skirts and boots, the winning woman in 1922 covered the mountainous 7.5-mile course in one hour and 12 minutes. It’s a time that would place her in the top quarter of athletes at this year’s race. Her “hike” was most definitely a run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about girls and women who were kind of everyday athletes. But we’re also talking about elite athleticism, women who were really skilled,” said Liberti. “And all of this is happening in the San Francisco Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, we \u003cem>were\u003c/em> a place for elite women’s sports. But then came the pushback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A 50-year ban\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Every time women found a place for elite athleticism in the first half of the century, there came periodic backlash. Just a few years after that first basketball game, Stanford put an end to all intercollegiate women’s sports for fear of the stress on women’s bodies. A conservative wave then pushed across the country starting in the 1920s, seen across all aspects of life. And, while small fringe pockets for women to thrive could continue to be found, the Bay Area was not immune to conservative fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[T]he reason why the Dipsea Hike, the race, ended in 1922, is that community leaders felt it was too harsh for women to continue running that race. And so there’s still those combination [of] fears about female frailty, like their ovaries are going to fall out or something if they run up and down a basketball court, or that they’ll become too mannish,” said Liberti. “The Bay Area may seem intensely progressive. But it carries with it ideas about gender, and we’re not immune from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the last Dipsea women’s hike in 1922, the race wouldn’t open back up to women for five decades — until 1971.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened across many women’s sports, with many facing decades of being barred from participating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that finally changed, after so many years of being banned or limited, building a foundation back up for women’s sports was slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Title IX — the landmark legislation that banned gender discrimination — passed a year later, in 1972, it wasn’t until 1982 that the NCAA even added women’s basketball. That’s nearly 90 years after that first Stanford-Cal game was played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by the 1970s, modern pro men’s sports as we think of them were really taking shape with money, sponsors, tickets and TV deals. This is when we first see an attempt at professional women’s teams, too. But they were on the back foot, having to catch up to the audience and investment that men’s teams had built.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet the SF Pioneers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was then, in 1979, that San Francisco got a women’s professional basketball team: the SF Pioneers. They joined the brand new, first of its kind, women’s pro basketball league, which called itself the WBL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a dream come true for me, because I never thought the United States would ever have a women’s league,” said \u003ca href=\"https://thelegends.org/our-team/\">Cardte Hicks\u003c/a>, one of the women on that team.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eBkMz2ix2_0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eBkMz2ix2_0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Hicks had played for CSU Northridge and had a 42-inch vertical jump. She was recruited to San Francisco by the coach, Frank LaPorte, who had heard of her and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/Inspiring-dunks-of-Stanford-s-Belibi-echo-16036458.php\">her famous dunking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never even knew that dunking was something spectacular. I just thought it was fun to be able to get up that high,” she said, “He had heard a lot about me playing in AAU. I played for my brothers, because they wouldn’t allow women to play, so they’d dress me up like a boy, tape my boobs down, what little bit I did have,” she said. “And people would come out because they’d heard about that girl that could jump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pioneers played at the Civic Center and were supported by Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing I can truly say is that San Francisco showed some love, in the gay community, more so than any community. They were just so supportive. They wanted this to grow,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the players didn’t get paid much and, after the novelty wore off, they didn’t get much media attention or marketing either. “We didn’t get marketed like they do with the WNBA. We didn’t have a lot of money. Me personally, I’d have played for nothing, as long as I can get out there and play,” said Hicks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much did she get paid? About $1,500 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956859\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-800x1306.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of 4 women on a basketball court. Three of them wear dark uniforms, and one is in a white uniform. The 2 women in the middle ground are leaping into the air after a basketball that is above them out of frame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-800x1306.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-160x261.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847-941x1536.jpg 941w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1206294847.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Pioneers, a women’s professional basketball team, playing a game in the first national league on Dec. 30, 1980. \u003ccite>(Steve Ringman/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The players were good, though, she said. Imagine if they’d had the opportunities available now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the league folded, it was a heartbreaker for all of us,” she said. By 1981, the WBL was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, many of those players, including Hicks, were honored by the WNBA and inducted into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbhof.com/\">Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame\u003c/a>. But back in the early ’80s, without enough capital or coverage, the WBL couldn’t last. The team and league shut down and Hicks went back to playing overseas where there were more opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This happened to a lot of the newly formed women’s pro teams during the ’70s and ’80s. They keep getting shortchanged and shut down, struggling to catch up to the head start the men’s teams had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these women’s pro sport leagues are short lived,” said Liberti, “Like they come and they go, they’re in and they’re out. They don’t have funding. There’s no capital. There’s no media following them at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern continued for decades. There was the San Jose Sunbirds, a pro softball team, which was later followed by the California Sunbirds in Stockton, which were part of the on-and-off National Pro Fastpitch league. There was the FC Gold Pride, part of one of the early women’s pro soccer leagues, who played in Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been a number of different women’s pro teams in the Bay Area over the years, but they haven’t lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are things finally changing? Has the time finally come for one to succeed here?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A shift happening\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back to the launch of the new women’s pro soccer team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think sometimes people are resistant to understanding what is possible if they haven’t seen it done before,” said Aly Wagner, another one of the four founders of the Bay FC. Wagner also played on the national team and in previous women’s pro leagues — none of which lasted. “We’re in a very different place now than where we were then. And one of the things that I keep coming back to is that there were always gatekeepers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Wagner means is that for a long time the people who make the decisions in regards to sports funding kept saying: “No point in investing in women’s sports; no one wants to watch women’s sports; don’t put them on TV.” And so nothing happened. There was no investment, media or marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, though, in July 2023, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/2023-womens-world-cup-breaks-ticket-sale-records-viewership-way-up-over-2019/\">Women’s World Cup\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/232-million-watched-live-broadcasts-of-2022-tour-de-france-femmes/\">Tour de France Femmes\u003c/a> draw millions of viewers, it’s hard not to notice a shift happening globally. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/ncaa-womens-basketball-final-ratings-record-c8a9f218\">Almost 10 million people tuned in for the women’s March Madness final\u003c/a>. WNBA opening weekend viewership was up 100%. \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37630607/women-attendances-dominated-european-football-2022\">The three most attended soccer games in Europe last year were all women’s matches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s clear there is money to be made — and that’s what’s changing. Investors now see there’s a market, an audience, an entire base of women’s sports fans who are not being served. And with the potential for profit, comes funding, which brings broadcast TV deals. And since you can’t be a fan of what you can’t see, that brings more viewers and more fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I think that people are starting to understand that the momentum is there, the data is there. Everything is signaling that this is the right time,” Wagner said. “It might have been the right time before, but now it’s \u003cem>really\u003c/em> the right time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11956860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A row of people smile at the camera, they are all wearing items of clothing with the logo for a women's soccer team called "Bay FC."\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66033_06032023_bayfc-405-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheryl Sandberg, Danielle Slaton, Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne and Aly Wagner pose for a photo with other attendees at a kickoff event for Bay FC, the Bay Area’s first team in the National Women’s Soccer League, at the Presidio in San Francisco, on June 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Bay FC team launch event, fans were excited too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I’m so excited,” said Deepa Patel. “I started watching the NWSL after the 2015 World Cup and since then I’ve just been waiting for a team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we have a women’s team in Northern California. We don’t have to fly to Portland, we don’t have to go to L.A., we don’t have to fly to San Diego. Finally we have something representing Northern California, and the Bay Area,” said Monica MacMillan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have always been women’s sports in the Bay Area. There are professional runners, cyclists, tennis players, swimmers, and ice-skaters. There are semi-pro teams here, too. But now it might really be time for a fully-fledged, fully-funded major pro team that lasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one last obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also efforts to bring a WNBA expansion team here, though the commissioner has said “\u003ca href=\"https://justwomenssports.com/reads/wnba-expansion-teams-timeline-cathy-engelbert-commissioner/\">not yet\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is another factor that answers Afifa Tawil’s original question. It can be tough to start teams in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s often easier to start out and build in smaller markets, especially during the survival mode women’s sports have historically existed in. In small markets, you can sometimes build women’s teams as a kind of homegrown oddity attraction. The Bay Area, by contrast, is a little hard for people to get their heads around, a little hard to conquer for any one new team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Bay Area is perhaps daunting to a lot of people because we have so much going on there,” said Wagner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s so spread out, so diverse, there’s so many other things to do besides sit inside and watch sports on TV. We’re not always considered a great sports market. But Brandi Chastain disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area is the best sports town and we’re going to prove it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay FC starts play in the spring and after that, who knows. Maybe a WNBA team in Oakland. Or dream big: A softball team in Hayward; a women’s hockey team in San José. Momentum is building. As the women’s soccer fans like to say: LFG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayfc.com/\">Bay Football Club\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s first National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, got the ball rolling for the 2024 season at an official launch event at the Main Parade Lawn in San Francisco’s Presidio on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so excited. I started watching the NWSL since the 2015 World Cup, and since then I’ve just been waiting for a team to come,” said Deepa Patel, a soccer fan from San Bruno, who was at FC Day for the Bay. “I put my deposit down already, for seats. I’m ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two men and a woman stand on a stage as one of the men speaks to the crowd.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66015_06032023_bayfc-027-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan (right) speaks alongside state Senator Scott Weiner (center) and a representative of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay FC announced in an online press release on June 1 that it would be the 14th team in the National Women’s Soccer League, the top women’s professional soccer league in the U.S. The team was co-founded by four former U.S. national women’s team legends — Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner — in partnership with global investment firm \u003ca href=\"https://sixthstreet.com/\">Sixth Street\u003c/a>. The team colors — navy blue, warm poppy red and fog gray — and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs9QH2GgOkm/\">Gothic-font logo\u003c/a> with a nod to the Golden Gate Bridge, emphasize the new team’s mission to represent the entire Bay Area.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Danielle Slaton, co-founder, Bay FC\"]‘We really, truly believe we will attract the best players, the best supporters, the best fans, the best sponsors from around the globe.’[/pullquote]“We really, truly are focused on bringing our Bay Area together, being a bridge that unites the diverse communities we have here,” said Slaton in the press release. “We believe we will attract the best players, the best supporters, the best fans, the best sponsors from around the globe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Rafael resident Monica McMillan, 59, celebrated with friends at the launch, where there were musical performances, food trucks, giveaways and soccer games. She said it was great to finally have a women’s pro soccer team in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have to fly to Portland. We don’t have to fly to LA. We don’t have to go to San Diego to watch. We got somebody representing Northern California,” said McMillan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of people listening while some take photos.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66032_06032023_bayfc-394-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People listen during the event. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decision to invest in a Bay Area women’s soccer team came from the long-term growth and popularity of women’s soccer over the last 20 years, said Sixth Street CEO and co-founder Alan Waxman. The Bay Area is also “one of the best ecosystems of women’s soccer,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support from people across the Bay Area has been overwhelming,” said Waxman, who is also co-chair of Bay FC. “It’s because the best women’s soccer in the world is played here in the U.S. … and 40% of the women’s U.S. national team has Bay Area ties. People are ready for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman referred to the Bay Area as a “hotbed for women’s soccer,” which, she added, has been under-utilized and under-invested. But with teams like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a>, which plays in the USL Championship, and amateur women’s team \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/\">Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, which just completed its first season to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">rousing home support\u003c/a>, the Bay Area is already on the map in terms of high-level soccer. The addition of an NWSL team is expected to take Bay Area soccer to another level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This league is the best in the world and has the potential to bring in all possible fans and be the kind of inclusive environment that attracts the best players,” Berman said at the press release on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay FC co-founder and former U.S. national team player Chastain told KQED at the launch it was a “monumental” day for women’s soccer as well as women in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This day has been a long time in the making … We know that the nine counties [in the Bay Area] are essential to the success of our team. They are our team,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four girls pose for a photo with two soccer balls and people in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Alameda Islanders youth soccer team pose for a photo. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where Bay FC will practice and play their matches hasn’t been decided yet, and they know the team has to be ready for the 2024 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do, to stand up the company and get this in a place that we’re ready to rock and roll and kick a ball come 2024,” said co-founder and former national team player Wagner. “We’ve got to bring in world-class executives to lead our vision, but we’ve also got to get players. We need a full roster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands and listens with people in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fan Deepa Patel, 27, stands for a photo during the kickoff event. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay FC investor and board member Sheryl Sandberg, formerly of Meta, said she considered Bay FC a win for girls, women, sports and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of us, this is much bigger and much more than soccer,” Sandberg said from the stage at FC Day for the Bay. “You may have noticed that men have run the world for a really long time. I don’t think it’s going that well. Women’s sports are critical to creating the path the world needs for change. Girls who play today become women who lead tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some girls like Olivia, 6, are already eagerly watching. “I’m excited to see them all play really cool and just see them all score goals and make really good finishes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952136\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl sits and listens with people around her and behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia, 6, listens to speakers during the event. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit, Emily Calix, Kelly O’Mara, Kori Suzuki and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This league is the best in the world and has the potential to bring in all possible fans and be the kind of inclusive environment that attracts the best players,” Berman said at the press release on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay FC co-founder and former U.S. national team player Chastain told KQED at the launch it was a “monumental” day for women’s soccer as well as women in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This day has been a long time in the making … We know that the nine counties [in the Bay Area] are essential to the success of our team. They are our team,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Four girls pose for a photo with two soccer balls and people in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66031_06032023_bayfc-364-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Alameda Islanders youth soccer team pose for a photo. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where Bay FC will practice and play their matches hasn’t been decided yet, and they know the team has to be ready for the 2024 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do, to stand up the company and get this in a place that we’re ready to rock and roll and kick a ball come 2024,” said co-founder and former national team player Wagner. “We’ve got to bring in world-class executives to lead our vision, but we’ve also got to get players. We need a full roster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands and listens with people in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66034_06032023_bayfc-429-KQED-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fan Deepa Patel, 27, stands for a photo during the kickoff event. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay FC investor and board member Sheryl Sandberg, formerly of Meta, said she considered Bay FC a win for girls, women, sports and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all of us, this is much bigger and much more than soccer,” Sandberg said from the stage at FC Day for the Bay. “You may have noticed that men have run the world for a really long time. I don’t think it’s going that well. Women’s sports are critical to creating the path the world needs for change. Girls who play today become women who lead tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some girls like Olivia, 6, are already eagerly watching. “I’m excited to see them all play really cool and just see them all score goals and make really good finishes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952136\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl sits and listens with people around her and behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66018_06032023_bayfc-065-KQED-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia, 6, listens to speakers during the event. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit, Emily Calix, Kelly O’Mara, Kori Suzuki and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There are plenty of reasons to like the Oakland Roots soccer team. Tickets are $20 a pop, and the games, at Laney College, are easy to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games also \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> like Oakland. The crowd is diverse, local food trucks hawk tacos and Indian curries, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2020-09-29/oaklands-soccer-team-celebrates-the-sounds-of-the-town\">game DJs always mix classic Bay Area anthems into the soundtrack of the match\u003c/a>. There are always rowdy groups of fans with left-wing political messages, waving red-and-black flags and lighting the occasional smoke bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also makes a point of celebrating the local community. At a recent game, the middle school and high school champions of this year’s Oakland Athletic League soccer playoffs were invited onto the field before kickoff and showered with applause from the crowd.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lindsay Barenz, president, Oakland Roots Sports Club\"]‘It finally became apparent to the owners of capital that [women’s soccer] was a worthwhile investment, not [just] an opportunity to make a contribution to the social good.’[/pullquote]Now, as a number of high-profile professional sports teams have recently left Oakland (\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2021/05/11/oakland-as-once-again-threatening-to-leave-oakland-as-new-stadium/\">or are threatening to do so\u003c/a>), the Roots club is expanding, and — like\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/06/14/an-oakland-wnba-team-its-in-one-groups-plans-for-the-coliseum-site/\"> the group organizing to bring a WNBA team to the Oakland Arena\u003c/a> — it’s placing its money on a women’s team. The club recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/news/2022/05/12/roots-announce-oakland-soul/\">announced the launch of Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, a women’s amateur summer soccer team that’s slated to begin playing at Merritt College in the Oakland hills in the spring of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Roots game, members of Edna Brewer Middle School’s girls’ soccer team, who were being honored for winning the Oakland Athletic League championship, were thrilled to hear the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For real?! No way. Oh my god! There’s really going to be one?!” shouted 11-year-old goalie Rachel Sanchez, as she sat with her teammates in the bleachers, watching the Roots’ offense move the ball up the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a really awesome connection to Roots,” said Jenna Lamb, Oakland Soul’s business development director, on the new team’s name. “They’re both intangible, things that you can’t see. And obviously, Oakland has an incredible amount of soul in the culture, the arts and the people here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Build the pipeline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The team is now beginning the process of recruiting and selecting players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good chunk of the roster will come from universities,” Lamb said, noting that the team’s preprofessional, amateur status means it will focus on developing the skills of advanced college players. According to the club, the team will have between 24 and 30 players on the roster, who will come from a combination of open tryouts and recruitment. University players will include locals who play for colleges outside the state and out-of-state residents who attend local colleges. “We’re really lucky that, in the Bay Area, there are so many incredible top-tier universities in women’s soccer super close,” Lamb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that also means players on the team won’t receive any compensation. That’s typical for amateur teams, but for some fans of the Oakland Roots, whose players are compensated, having an unpaid women’s team is a point of contention — particularly in the wake of the recent high-profile fight waged by the USA women’s soccer team \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/02/25/sports/uswnt-soccer-equal-pay?name=styln-uswnt-equal-pay®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false\">for pay equity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that’s a message that we want to send to our young athletes,” said Reanna Couts, head coach of the Edna Brewer girls’ team. “We want to send the message that they are just as important, just as talented, and deserve the same compensation as men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg\" alt=\"A girls' soccer team celebrates on the field.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-800x524.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-1020x669.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-160x105.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Edna Brewer Middle School girls’ soccer team celebrates after winning this year’s Oakland Athletic League championship on March 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reanna Couts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lamb, however, points out that players on Project 510, the men’s preprofessional team — Oakland Soul’s counterpart — are also unpaid. The decision to not yet create a professional women’s team in Oakland, she adds, boils down to the lack of available facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as anybody in the Bay Area is aware, land is hard to come by,” she said, noting that only two fields in Oakland — the Oakland Coliseum and the field at Laney College — meet professional soccer standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum would be far too expensive, Lamb says, and the Laney field doesn’t have the capacity to host another professional team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be sacrificing the quality of both teams to try and squeeze another professional organization in there,” she said. “There just isn’t room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lamb says that with a few changes, like more bleacher seating and lights, Merritt College’s field could be developed to meet professional standards, assuming the college was on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she says, the club didn’t want resource limitations to keep female players off the field. “Starting a development team now allows us to get into the community and allows us to build the pipeline,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Business and activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland Roots club president Lindsay Barenz, who took the helm in January, is hopeful Oakland Soul could someday go pro if enough people show up to games and make it worth the investment to build a new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots club was founded in 2018 with the “purpose of using soccer to create positive social change,” Barenz said, noting that adding a women’s team has long been a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women’s soccer, she says, has taken off in the U.S. ever since the national women’s team won the World Cup in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It finally became apparent to the owners of capital that [women’s soccer] was a worthwhile investment — not [just] an opportunity to make a contribution to the social good,” said Barenz, “but an opportunity to make money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she says, there are more opportunities than ever before to build new professional women’s soccer teams. But even so, both Barenz and Lamb say they want to be careful how they proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this very storied history of women’s teams, women’s leagues in the United States collapsing because of growing too quickly or mismanagement,” said Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has played out here in the Bay Area. The last two professional women’s teams — the San Jose CyberRays and FC Gold Pride — both folded after just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The full spectrum’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those teams took with them the social benefit of having professional female athletes be local role models, Barenz notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be it if you can’t see it,” she said. “We have to make young people realize that there’s a wide range of opportunities for participating in sports. Young boys have always seen the full spectrum,” from weekend recreational league opportunities to professional teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, we’ve only shown women and girls a part of that spectrum,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915223\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11915223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"Roots Soccer Club President Lindsey Barenz poses for a photo in the bleachers at the Laney College Soccer Field.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/DSC01722-3-1920x1281.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsey Barenz is president of the Oakland Roots Sports Club and the Oakland Soul. She says creating a women’s team has been part of the club’s plans since its founding in 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Soul SC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark national law that expanded sports opportunities for women by requiring all federally funded schools to provide their students equal access to athletics, regardless of gender. The law is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/30/transgender-discrimination-title-ix-rule-students/\">undergoing changes\u003c/a> that would expand these protections to transgender athletes, in an effort to counter a series of new state laws that ban their participation in sports that match their gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the half century since the law’s passage, participation in women’s high school and college sports has multiplied tenfold. That rate, though, still pales in comparison to involvement in men’s sports, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations and the NCAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"u-s-womens-soccer\"]It’s a disparity that also plays out in many middle schools, including some in Oakland. This year’s citywide middle school soccer playoffs included eight teams in the girls’ bracket and double that in the boys’ one. Despite Title IX, funding is still more likely to go to boys’ teams, especially when resources are limited, says Edna Brewer’s girls’ soccer assistant coach August Spafford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of the schools with more resources that have both,” he said. “It’s the smaller schools that need the extra support that will often have only a boys’ team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barenz says high-visibility, high-skill women’s teams, like she hopes Oakland Soul will develop into, are important because they encourage young women to stick with sports, which can help put pressure on school districts to provide more team opportunities, and extend other benefits, like improved physical and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also a lot of life lessons that we learn through team sports,” she said. “We learn leadership, hard work, teamwork and resiliency. Those are life lessons that can be challenging to learn, but they’re very easy to learn through sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Roots game, Edna Brewer soccer player Monrovia Prinz says she’s happy to hear about Oakland Soul, but also doesn’t mince words about it being long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they should’ve done that first before the men’s team, because that’s what always happens, is that the men get what they want first,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, her teammate, Rachel Sanchez, is closely tracking the ball on the field. “There’s not many teams for women and they don’t get as much attention as men,” she said. “But now we’re gaining our spotlight to show them the other side of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Soul will host an \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-roots-sc-invites-you-to-join-us-for-the-launch-of-oakland-soul-tickets-337415868947\">official launch party\u003c/a> for the team at The Loom in Oakland on June 23. Tickets for that event and the deposits for the 2023 Oakland Soul soccer season are available on the team’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/\">website\u003c/a>. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, as a number of high-profile professional sports teams have recently left Oakland (\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2021/05/11/oakland-as-once-again-threatening-to-leave-oakland-as-new-stadium/\">or are threatening to do so\u003c/a>), the Roots club is expanding, and — like\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/06/14/an-oakland-wnba-team-its-in-one-groups-plans-for-the-coliseum-site/\"> the group organizing to bring a WNBA team to the Oakland Arena\u003c/a> — it’s placing its money on a women’s team. The club recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsoulsc.com/news/2022/05/12/roots-announce-oakland-soul/\">announced the launch of Oakland Soul\u003c/a>, a women’s amateur summer soccer team that’s slated to begin playing at Merritt College in the Oakland hills in the spring of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Roots game, members of Edna Brewer Middle School’s girls’ soccer team, who were being honored for winning the Oakland Athletic League championship, were thrilled to hear the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For real?! No way. Oh my god! There’s really going to be one?!” shouted 11-year-old goalie Rachel Sanchez, as she sat with her teammates in the bleachers, watching the Roots’ offense move the ball up the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a really awesome connection to Roots,” said Jenna Lamb, Oakland Soul’s business development director, on the new team’s name. “They’re both intangible, things that you can’t see. And obviously, Oakland has an incredible amount of soul in the culture, the arts and the people here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Build the pipeline’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The team is now beginning the process of recruiting and selecting players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good chunk of the roster will come from universities,” Lamb said, noting that the team’s preprofessional, amateur status means it will focus on developing the skills of advanced college players. According to the club, the team will have between 24 and 30 players on the roster, who will come from a combination of open tryouts and recruitment. University players will include locals who play for colleges outside the state and out-of-state residents who attend local colleges. “We’re really lucky that, in the Bay Area, there are so many incredible top-tier universities in women’s soccer super close,” Lamb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that also means players on the team won’t receive any compensation. That’s typical for amateur teams, but for some fans of the Oakland Roots, whose players are compensated, having an unpaid women’s team is a point of contention — particularly in the wake of the recent high-profile fight waged by the USA women’s soccer team \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/02/25/sports/uswnt-soccer-equal-pay?name=styln-uswnt-equal-pay®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false\">for pay equity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that’s a message that we want to send to our young athletes,” said Reanna Couts, head coach of the Edna Brewer girls’ team. “We want to send the message that they are just as important, just as talented, and deserve the same compensation as men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg\" alt=\"A girls' soccer team celebrates on the field.\" width=\"1170\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004.jpeg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-800x524.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-1020x669.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screensho001002003004-160x105.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Edna Brewer Middle School girls’ soccer team celebrates after winning this year’s Oakland Athletic League championship on March 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reanna Couts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lamb, however, points out that players on Project 510, the men’s preprofessional team — Oakland Soul’s counterpart — are also unpaid. The decision to not yet create a professional women’s team in Oakland, she adds, boils down to the lack of available facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as anybody in the Bay Area is aware, land is hard to come by,” she said, noting that only two fields in Oakland — the Oakland Coliseum and the field at Laney College — meet professional soccer standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum would be far too expensive, Lamb says, and the Laney field doesn’t have the capacity to host another professional team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be sacrificing the quality of both teams to try and squeeze another professional organization in there,” she said. “There just isn’t room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lamb says that with a few changes, like more bleacher seating and lights, Merritt College’s field could be developed to meet professional standards, assuming the college was on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she says, the club didn’t want resource limitations to keep female players off the field. “Starting a development team now allows us to get into the community and allows us to build the pipeline,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Business and activism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oakland Roots club president Lindsay Barenz, who took the helm in January, is hopeful Oakland Soul could someday go pro if enough people show up to games and make it worth the investment to build a new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots club was founded in 2018 with the “purpose of using soccer to create positive social change,” Barenz said, noting that adding a women’s team has long been a goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women’s soccer, she says, has taken off in the U.S. ever since the national women’s team won the World Cup in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It finally became apparent to the owners of capital that [women’s soccer] was a worthwhile investment — not [just] an opportunity to make a contribution to the social good,” said Barenz, “but an opportunity to make money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she says, there are more opportunities than ever before to build new professional women’s soccer teams. But even so, both Barenz and Lamb say they want to be careful how they proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this very storied history of women’s teams, women’s leagues in the United States collapsing because of growing too quickly or mismanagement,” said Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has played out here in the Bay Area. The last two professional women’s teams — the San Jose CyberRays and FC Gold Pride — both folded after just three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The full spectrum’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those teams took with them the social benefit of having professional female athletes be local role models, Barenz notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t be it if you can’t see it,” she said. “We have to make young people realize that there’s a wide range of opportunities for participating in sports. 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"content": "\u003cp>15-year-old Peyton Marcisz and 17-year-old Andrea Kitahata were excited to be back on the soccer field. Because of shelter-in-place restrictions, the team had to take a three-month break from in-person training and only recently had started practicing on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was special to be able to go out once a week,” said Marcisz. “It was really exciting even at the time and not being able to train for three months prior to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the team practices three times a week and are working their way up to full contact with other players. But Marcisz and Kitahata are just glad to be on the field after the turbulent summer they’ve had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=medium align=right citation=\"Andrea Kitahata, member of FC Bay Area soccer team\"]‘We don’t know if we’re going to get shut down in a week or if we’re not going to play for a while, so I do appreciate every moment I have on the field now.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls used to be part of the San Jose Earthquakes Girls Academy. For the past three years, the San Jose-based professional soccer team provided training programs for boys aged 13-19, and girls aged 14 to 19. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the academy paused in-person practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a blow for many of the players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of our life,” said Marcisz. “Soccer was basically our 24/7 with school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 15, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, a national soccer league which connected local teams across the country, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussoccerda.com/20200415-NEWS-DA-Letter-to-Development-Academy-Clubs\">permanently folded\u003c/a> due to pandemic-related budget cuts. Then, in May, the San Jose Earthquakes decided it would shut down their girls program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Major League Soccer (MLS) rules, the Earthquakes are “required to have a boys academy program, but they are not currently required to have a girls program,” said Andres Deza, a former coach for the Earthquakes’ girls program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys can train in the Earthquakes training program and eventually join the professional team. But because there is no professional women’s team for the Earthquakes, the company has less incentive to keep the girl’s program running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Marcisz, Peyton’s dad, said the decision by the Development Academy and the Earthquakes to cut the girls program didn’t sit well with him. To him, it reeked of gender inequity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely something to the fact that it’s a girls team and we’re keeping the boys [team] and getting rid of the girls [team],” Marcisz said. “That was pretty rude to say the least. All that commitment that all these kids across the country and their parents have made are all just blown up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes didn’t respond to a request for comment, but the San Jose team is one of a number across the country, including the Los Angeles-based team LA Galaxy, to make similar decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really hard for us because in a short period of time, we lost the Girls Academy, the league, and then we lost the backing of the Earthquakes, which we had been developing for three years,” Deza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deza said he didn’t want to give up the team without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we’d give it a shot and try to see if we could, you know, keep the program together somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"soccer\" label=\"related stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after the Earthquakes shut down the Girls Academy, Deza and some of the other coaches from the girls program started their own club, which they named FC Bay Area. Deza said once they opened registration for their club, they were pleasantly surprised to find that about 90% of their original membership decided to move to the new club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The players and the families decided to stick with us, which was very humbling,” Deza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitahata said the decision was clear for her: Deza was the best coach she had had and she was eager to be back out on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Us not being able to play for months on end — for me, it kinda put a fire in my belly about wanting to improve and be my best every time I step on the field because nothing’s guaranteed at this point,” Kitahata said. “We don’t know if we’re going to get shut down in a week or if we’re not going to play for a while, so I do appreciate every moment I have on the field now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11840382 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/SJ-Earthquakes-Pic-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The girls and boys teams train three days a week now and are slowly working their way up to full contact with another player. 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Everyone is looking forward to when the pandemic ends and matches can be scheduled again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deza is excited about the developments for the program, but he says it’s expensive to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m basically a volunteer for a non-profit organization,” he said. “As you can imagine, the budget is very tight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teams must pay for equipment, first aid, coaches and fees for sports fields. Now with the pandemic, there’s the added costs of personal protective equipment and needing more space for social distancing. Deza hopes to rely on parents’ chipping in more fees and on fundraising and corporate sponsorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financially, the viability of this project is going to be very challenging,” Deza said. “But we’re going to try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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