“So their team has to be pretty good, right off the bat I would say that would be helpful.
If they do bad, everyone else messed something up, so it’s not their team’s fault. “Boston’s a little fickle, though you guys are pretty hit-or-miss with your teams. “I think you can absolutely market us to everybody,” said Sauerbrunn. She said the strategy of marketing only to soccer-playing families does a “disservice to a lot of other populations.” “I don’t know who the owners are, but if they have deep enough pockets and they invest enough in the infrastructure, in the marketing, in introducing the team, then I think absolutely a women’s soccer team could thrive in Boston.”
That’s a jump from the start of the NWSL, when I don’t think there really were standards. When told about the Boston bidders’ plan to help transform Franklin Park’s White Stadium to meet NWSL standards, the 38-year-old Sauerbrunn said, “Hey, as long as there are standards, that’s good. She also played against the now-defunct Breakers at a couple of their Boston-area venues. Long before she became captain of the national team, Becky Sauerbrunn, now a defender for the Thorns, played in the summer of 2005 for the Boston Renegades, a second-tier USL team. They have pushed northward a bit, toward Orange, but they are well aware of Angel City FC, which also began play last year. The Wave have been building relationships with youth leagues and soccer fans south of the city, including in Mexico, where soccer is the national sport. Attendance ticks up in other cities when she plays New Jersey/New York Gotham FC set its attendance record (15,058) recently after advertising Morgan’s arrival.
The Wave’s roster is blessed with the presence of Alex Morgan, arguably the top talent and most recognizable member of the national team. The Wave, she said, “really do a great job of building that bond between the community and the team, and that’s another reason why the excitement is there.”
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Hill added that Chicago was already a tough market to compete in because of the other major pro sports teams. “We weren’t in the city of Chicago, and it was kind of a tough place to get out to,” said Hill. Before arriving in San Diego, she played for the Chicago Red Stars, the up-for-sale franchise that plays a 30-minute drive from downtown and has a firm grasp on the NWSL cellar for average attendance (3,874). Rachel Hill is a Wave forward from Rollinsford, N.H., who also played at the University of Connecticut.
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