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January 20 – Sixth Road, the worldwide funding agency and lead backer of Bay FC within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League (NWSL), has introduced that Kay Cossington, will be a part of the corporate as Head of International Ladies’s Soccer and CEO of Bay Collective, a groundbreaking multi-club organisation devoted to advancing girls’s soccer. Bay Collective is about to formally launch later in 2025.
Cossington, extensively thought to be one of many world’s foremost specialists on girls’s soccer, is at the moment the Ladies’s Technical Director at The English Soccer Affiliation (FA).
Throughout her tenure, she has spearheaded the event of the ladies’s sport in England, aiding in modifying approaches to coaching, taking part in kinds, and infrastructure whereas additionally prioritising long-term profession pathways for athletes. Her efforts have been instrumental within the transformational rise of English girls’s soccer over the previous decade.
“As girls’s soccer has skilled speedy progress in recent times, I imagine we’re at a important inflection level,” mentioned Cossington. “Now’s the time to make use of this momentum to set even greater requirements and begin constructing one thing new and lasting to take the game to its subsequent glass-breaking stage.”
Cossington will stay in her FA function till Could 31, 2025, in an effort to make sure a clean transition earlier than taking the reins at Bay Collective.
In her new function, she is going to deal with making a participant and sport-first mannequin for the organisation, leveraging Sixth Road’s assets and experience in scaling companies to ‘redefine what’s attainable’ in girls’s soccer.
“My lifelong vocation has been to empower girls athletes and convey the technique, assets, and recognition to our sport that it deserves,” mentioned Cossington.
“I’m extremely pleased with the usual of excellence we’ve achieved at The FA, and my time constructing this organisation and seeing all that it continues to provide will ceaselessly be one of the crucial fulfilling intervals of my profession.
“As girls’s soccer has skilled speedy progress in recent times, I imagine we’re at a important inflection level. Now’s the time to make use of this momentum to set even greater requirements and begin constructing one thing new and lasting to take the game to its subsequent glass-breaking stage.
“For many years, I’ve studied girls’s soccer at all ages and rank, throughout areas, leagues, and kinds. My conclusion is evident: there’s a higher strategy to develop gamers on and off the pitch, construct championship golf equipment, and maintain our athletes on the centre of every little thing we do. We solely want the assets and the desire to do it.
“Alan and the crew at Sixth Road share that imaginative and prescient, and I’m enthusiastic about what we’re going to construct collectively as we create a brand new sort of charming, empowering, and successful world girls’s soccer expertise.”
Bay FC, based in simply 2023, introduced their intentions with the world-record switch of Zambian ahead Racheal Kundananji for $785,000 (plus a possible $75,000 in add-ons) in February final 12 months.
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