“Since Orlando took the initiative to build a women’s soccer team, it has shown that it has the same intent for them that it has for the men’s team.”
That was what Marta, the five time FIFA Women’s Player of the Year, said at last Friday’s press conference when asked why she chose to come to the City Beautiful.
Several Pride players have talked during the offseason and the preseason about the team’s commitment to treating their men’s and women’s teams as equal. They use the same training facility, they play on the same pitch. The move to get Marta showed a lot of ambition, but it also showed commitment from the organization that they wanted the best in Orlando.