Angel City parted methods with basic supervisor Angela Hucles Mangano after the crew missed the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.
The choice is the primary important transfer beneath new controlling proprietor Willow Bay, who joined her husband, Disney CEO Bob Iger, in investing within the crew final July. More modifications are anticipated with coach Becki Tweed now on the new seat.
Tweed, who took over halfway by the 2023 season, led the crew to the playoffs that 12 months. But Angel City went 7-13-6 and scored simply 22 objectives, the second-to-last objectives within the NWSL, in his solely full season in cost. The crew’s -18 purpose differential was additionally second-worst.
Tweed was employed by Hucles Mangano and a brand new basic supervisor is predicted to decide on his personal coach. There is also modifications within the administration construction of the crew.
Bay, dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, has impressed these near the membership together with his insistence on rolling up his sleeves and dedicating himself to his new job, his first in skilled sports activities. Angel City was based in 2020 by actress Natalie Portman, enterprise capitalist Kara Nortman and entrepreneur Julie Uhrman. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was the controlling proprietor and founder.
Bay and Iger invested at the least $50 million in Angel City final summer season, in accordance with the membership, bringing the worth of the franchise to $250 million, a document for a ladies’s sports activities crew. And whereas the crew has a presence locally, delivering greater than 2 million meals to folks in want in Los Angeles, directing 10% of sponsorship {dollars} to native applications, and mobilizing 1,300 folks to contribute greater than 4,200 volunteer hours to non-profit organizations -profit, was an underdog on the sector, going 23-29-18, conceding extra objectives than he scored and rating among the many league leaders in variety of instances he was fined or penalized by the NWSL for violating league guidelines.
Bay is decided to vary that.
Hucles Mangano, a two-time Olympic champion with the US ladies’s crew, joined Angel City as vice chairman of participant growth earlier than the membership’s first season, then moved as much as basic supervisor, changing former England worldwide Eniola Aluko in August 2022.
During his time as GM, Hucles Mangano engineered the sophisticated three-team commerce that allowed Angel City to signal excessive schooler Alyssa Thompson, signed former Manchester United captain Katie Zelem and started development on a brand new middle of fifty,000 sq. ft of efficiency, the biggest within the league.
Assistant basic supervisor Matt Wade will take over Hucles Mangano’s duties because the membership searches for a brand new full-time GM.
