Angel City FC is still a year away from its first game, but the fledgling NWSL club has found someone to guide that journey, hiring former English international player Eniola Aluko as its sporting director.
Aluko, 34, who spent the last year and a half as sporting director for Aston Villa of the Women’s Super League, is the only Black sporting director for a first-division soccer club in the U.S. She is also the first soccer hire for the team, which is 10 months old.
“She so personifies Angel City’s values,” club president Julie Uhrman told The Times.