Serena Williams listers and Reddit co-founder ready to disrupt football industry with Angel City

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For Alexis Ohanian last summer, it started with a simple phone call. The entrepreneur and co-founder of Reddit was in London and his friend wanted him to come to Paris, "He's like, you're an idiot if you don't come down to watch the USA play France."

Shortly afterwards, Ohanian was alongside 45,000 other fans, watching Megan Rapinoe score twice for the US women's national team in the quarterfinal of the Women's World Cup, leading her country towards what would be a fourth world title.
"It was admittedly the first time I'd ever been to a women's football match," he told CNN Sport, "and the crowd was electric. I walked away from it thinking, how did I not pay this enough attention? How did I not even know there was a pro league back in the States?"
A few days later, he and his wife, the tennis legend Serena Williams, were watching the tournament final on television. Their young daughter Olympia was running around wearing the jersey of one of the team's star players, Alex Morgan.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/31/football/angel-city-julie-uhrman-natalie-portman-alexis-ohanian-cmd-spt-intl/index.html

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