What might go down as Aly Wagner's greatest assist occurred long after she retired as a professional soccer player.
It came in the summer of 2022, when she pitched Charlotte Waxman, the wife of Sixth Street CEO Alan Waxman, on the virtues of a NWSL expansion team in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time, Wagner was hoping the couple would come on board as individual investors.
"Charlotte comes out of the investment side, she comes out of business, so she asked all the right questions, probably screening me for Alan," Wagner told ESPN.