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- Michele Kang told BBC Sport that London City Lionesses' purpose-built training centre will open in less than a year, with her architect—who has built several Premier League centres—telling her it will be better than the majority of men's Premier League training facilities.
- Kang signed two-time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas over the summer as part of significant investment in the Women's Super League side.
- Kang said the training centre will support research into female athlete health, noting female players suffer ACL injuries two to three times more than male players while approximately 94% of medical science research is dedicated to men.
- Kang is a vocal advocate for independent women's clubs not affiliated with men's teams, having first invested in the Washington Spirit in the US and now wanting to expand her multi-club ownership model—currently spanning England, France and the US—to Asia, Africa and South America.
- Kang credited her father's influence growing up in South Korea, where he raised three daughters with the belief that gender should not limit their ambitions, as the origin of her drive to close the gap between boys' and girls' athletic journeys.
- Kang's direct message to the rest of the Women's Super League was a single word: "Invest."
Why it matters: Kang's stated ambition to build a women's training centre that her own architect says will outclass most Premier League men's facilities—and to replicate that model across Asia, Africa and South America—directly targets the infrastructure gap she calls 'indefensible,' challenging every other WSL club to match the spending or fall further behind.
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