CULTURES UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB GEARS UP FOR ITS INAUGURAL WPSL SEASON THIS SUMMER

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SEATTLE (Feb. 14, 2023) - The Women’s Premier Soccer League announced today that Cultures United Football Club will take the WPSL field this summer as a 2023 expansion side. With the announcement, the league expands further into the Pacific Northwest. The club has been aligned in the Northwest Conference of the league’s West Region.
 

In 2019, Culture United Football Club was selected as a finalist for Pitch for Hope, an initiative aimed at combating the widespread racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, and any other kind of discrimination in sports, led by Chelsea FC of the English Premier League. After winning the award, Sebastian Diaz, Cultures United Football Club executive Director, officially launched club operations in 2020 with the mission to create equity across race and gender and make the sport more accessible at the grassroots level.
 

“We are very excited to join the WPSL…For us, this is an opportunity to put ourselves on the map and showcase our skills at the national level,” Diaz said. We also believe that this is a move that will help us contribute towards the growth of women’s soccer in our region.”
 

Launching club operations at the start of the pandemic did not dissuade Diaz from his main objective of making the sport accessible to those who do not get access due to costs and other determining factors. The club began offering virtual content and programming youth could do at home which eventually led to gathering in small groups that shaped its now free camps and clinics youth program. Additionally, in 2022 the club partnered with the RAVE Foundation, the official charitable arm of the Seattle Sounders, to become their Camps and Clinics program partner.
 

For the 2023 season, Marina Macvicar has been named the head coach for its WPSL side. Macvicar, a former player for Cultures United Football Club, is well known in the Seattle soccer landscape for her work with the RAVE Foundation and the Sounders. This will be her first time in the head coaching role.
 

“We are very thankful for the WPSL and our sponsors and partners for supporting our unique program,” Diaz said. “We are ready to write history in 2023.”
 

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For more information about Cultures United Football Club visit its official website or social platforms on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  More information about the WPSL can be found at wpslsoccer.com

About the Women’s Premier Soccer League

Celebrating its 25th season of play in 2023, the Women’s Premier Soccer League is the most tenured and largest women’s soccer league in the world – with an all-time high 131 teams competing in 33 U.S. states and 73 metro areas. Team rosters feature current and former collegiate players, the nation’s top prep prospects, and international standouts. The amateur summer league produced more than 70 percent of the selections in the 2023 NWSL College Draft and WPSL alumnae represent 50 percent of the members of the United States women’s national team.