Three top past and present players from the U.S. Women’s National soccer team will participate in virtual town hall to discuss plans to bring a pre-professional women’s soccer team to Portland in 2027.
The event, which is open to the public, will be hosted by the Portland Hearts of Pine soccer club. It is scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday. Those interested in attending the online event can register at the Hearts of Pine website.
Scheduled to attend are current USWNT and Manchester City player Sam Coffey, and former players Michelle Akers and Sara Whalen Hess. Akers and Whalen Hess were on the 1999 World Cup winning team and were founding members of the first fully professional women’s soccer league in the United States.
The moderator of the event is Meg Linehan, the lead women’s sports writer for The Athletic.
The purpose of the town hall is to continue the dialogue of what supporters of the women’s game wish to see from a women’s team on and off the pitch.
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