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Ali Krieger, former NJ/NY Gotham FC captain, holds up the 2023 NWSL Championship trophy with … More National Women’s Soccer League Commissioner Jessica Berman, First Lady of New Jersey Tammy Murphy, and Gotham FC Club Chair Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, and teammates after the NWSL match against Kansas City Current at Red Bull Arena on April 14, 2024 in Harrison, New Jersey. (Photo by Ira L. Black – Corbis/Getty Images) Getty Images One night earlier this month, the Empire State Building lit up in blue across the New York City skyline in celebration of NY/NJ Gotham FC winning the CONCACAF W Champions Cup. The lighting also signaled Gotham’s rising role across women’s soccer and the broader sports, culture, entertainment, and tourism landscape. “We are writing the playbook for the future of sports,” said Ryan Dillon, Chief Business Officer of the NY/NJ Gotham FC. “I wake up every day and feel a great deal of pressure to justify and prove that women’s sports can be a business, not a charity. For so long, it’s never been seen as that. The tides are changing, and we’re the ones doing the work to prove this is a business.” Gotham, which competes in the top-tier National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), is staking a claim in the boom of investment and attention in women’s professional sports in the United States from financiers, real estate developers, media enterprises, sponsors, fans, and the general public. Yael Averbuch West, Gotham’s General Manager and Head of Soccer Operations, said, “There is a global landscape emerging in the women’s game that will be different than the men’s game. And right now, in these next three-to-five years, we believe that there’s a real special opportunity that may never again present itself like this in women’s sports.” Averbuch West is someone who would…

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