Michele Kang: London City Lionesses owner’s dramatic impact on the WSL
Kang is a light figure, but when it enters the heeled canteen room in Cobdown Park for a special interview with BBC Sport, its presence cannot be ignored.
He gets a handshake with everyone, introduces himself warmly before taking his seat, be careful not to ruin his eye -catching dress.
Kang is a woman who wants more than early conversations. There’s a lot of information about humor, compassion and what he’s talking about.
The model of having a lot of clubs has become a subject of speech while women’s football continues to grow and exploring new ways of searching for income.
London has invested in a major investment in the infrastructure of City Lionesses, personnel and women -specific research and has worked so far.
Will it be a model followed by others?
Kang, “‘We will follow this model’ I do not know, but I think if you are entering women’s football and supporting women’s football real, real interests, this is a brainless result,” he says.
“We have the big media agreement of men. We do not sell stadium yet. We do not have hundreds of and millions of dollars of corporate sponsorship. But we still want to advance women’s football by investing in it.
“So what is the natural result? You have to create a scale. There is no reason for each team to invest in women’s research. We must bring and share this research together. The same thing as global discovery.
“I know there are greed on the male side and bad connotations with all these things, but it is a necessity until you have good commercial resources available in women’s football.”
Kang is proud of the work behind him and points to the construction works of the training area to improve the facilities.
He used the Premier League as a criterion of standards for success and designed a plan to replicate in all clubs to provide the best environment with architects.
Kang returns to this when some of them do not recommend that some of other clubs do not recommend that players to sign the market to manipulate the market.
Do Lyon’s rivals sign players from Paris St-Germain to benefit the French club? It is one of the main criticisms of many club ownership – an universal model.
“I understand because they haven’t seen it yet, so it is natural for people to assume it in the world of men. [it is perceived that] The teams can buy players and sell them for a much higher price, Kang Kang adds.
“In the absence of another alternative, ‘Oh, what he does is not unreasonable to think.
“This is not about building a nourishing system – this is not the purpose. It is to bring a critical scale, so we can invest in all the necessary infrastructure and investigate that our players should be the best athlete. So we can reveal the best product, so we can bring more people to the stadiums and find media women’s sports attractive.
“Everything is concerned and everything is necessary. When talking about comparisons … Women’s football is very different from male football. We should really treat it differently.”
