Cali Struggle’s Girls’s Soccer Workforce (www.caliwar.com) is formally kicking off the 2025 season, able to dominate the sector and elevate girls’s sort out soccer to new heights. As proud rivals within the Girls’s Soccer Alliance (WFA), Cali Struggle isn’t just right here to play — they’re right here to make a press release.
The joy actually begins at residence on Saturday, Might tenth, at 5:00 PM, when Cali Struggle hosts its official residence opener at St. Bernard Excessive College in Los Angeles—and this occasion is about to be nothing wanting electrical.
Followers can anticipate a high-energy, star-studded expertise:
- L.A. artist Carjanae will kick off the night with a strong efficiency of the Nationwide Anthem.
- Celeb DJ King Eric, from the Los Angeles Chargers and Clippers hype groups, will maintain the power alive all through the sport.
- Discuss present host and media character Nikki Wealthy will probably be in attendance as a particular VIP visitor, lending her assist to the rising motion for ladies in sports activities.
- At halftime, put together for an explosive efficiency by Tia P. — a powerhouse performer, producer, musician, songwriter, and actress from Inglewood, CA. A proud Howard College alumna and Prime 7 Finalist on Netflix’s Rhythm & Stream, Tia P. has captivated audiences nationwide along with her lyrical talent, commanding stage presence, and groundbreaking contributions to TV, movie, and nationwide advert campaigns for manufacturers like Google, NFL, and Disney.
Followers attending will even be capable to win unique giveaways, courtesy of Common Studios, including much more pleasure to an already unforgettable night time.
Girls’s sort out soccer has existed for many years, but it continues to battle for its rightful place within the mainstream sports activities world. Cali Struggle athletes put every part on the road, sacrificing their our bodies, time, and funds, all for the love of the sport. They pay to play, they practice like professionals, they usually present up with coronary heart, ardour, and function.
Now greater than ever, it’s time for the neighborhood to rally behind these unimaginable girls.
This season, we’re not simply enjoying — we’re rewriting the way forward for girls’s sports activities.
Be part of us for a season that guarantees to be historic. Let’s present the world what occurs when a metropolis stands behind its girls.
The Rise of Girls’s Soccer
As the most important girls’s sort out soccer league on this planet, the Girls’s Soccer Alliance (WFA) gives a platform for gifted athletes to compete on the highest stage. Cali Struggle stands as a proud ambassador of the league’s mission, demonstrating excellence on and off the sector.
Over the previous few a long time, girls’s sports activities have skilled a exceptional transformation, shattering long-held stereotypes and overcoming obstacles that after appeared insurmountable. Feminine athletes have confirmed that athleticism is aware of no gender, and the panorama {of professional} sports activities is evolving to mirror this reality. One of the vital thrilling and groundbreaking developments has been the rise of girls’s skilled sort out soccer. Hear from a number of of the soccer gamers on the Cali Struggle Girls’s Soccer crew primarily based in Los Angeles, who share their journey on enjoying soccer professionally.
“Sports activities have been an integral a part of my life since childhood. I’ve at all times been an lively particular person, collaborating in numerous sports activities like volleyball, basketball, and observe and subject. Nonetheless, the game that has actually resonated with me is soccer. Regardless of my lifelong wrestle with weight, I’ve by no means let it outline my skills. Nonetheless, it has influenced how others understand me, resulting in self-doubt, particularly within the context of sports activities. I’ve needed to problem the stereotype of the prima donna athlete or lady being a portrayal on tv. I’ve come to understand that I’ll by no means match that mould. Enjoying soccer has made me really feel snug in my very own pores and skin. I play a vital function that’s enhanced by my measurement, and I don’t have to adapt to any smaller picture. Becoming a member of Cali Struggle has been life-changing. These people are my household, and I couldn’t think about my life with out them. I eagerly anticipate soccer season, wanting ahead to the camaraderie of being round these wonderful athletes, the
exhilaration of taking the sector collectively, and the prospect to realize greatness.”
-Antoinette Borders-Frazier “Pleased” #99 Defensive Sort out
“I began enjoying soccer in Canada and performed a number of years up right here. I at all times wished to play once I was a child, however there was no ladies’ soccer, and my mother and father wouldn’t let me play with the boys, so I performed soccer and elite-level hockey for years as a goalie. Considered one of my hockey teammates requested if I wished to play girls’s soccer, and that was how I bought began. After years of enjoying in Canada, I noticed the WFA on Fb and the way giant and aggressive the league was and likewise the worldwide alternatives. I met so many wonderful girls and made the bounce to the WFA and Cali conflict. Regardless that I’ve sacrificed lots to have the ability to make journeys from Winnipeg to LA, I wouldn’t commerce it for the world. This will probably be my third yr with Cali Struggle. We have now a tremendous group of girls from all walks of life and backgrounds, however we’re a household and share a love of the sport and a love for one another. I felt so nervous on my first journey down, however I used to be instantly welcomed by everybody and felt accepted straight away.”
-Laura Dacey #68 Offensive Line
“I began enjoying sort out soccer 5 years in the past in my hometown of El Paso, Texas. As slightly woman, I at all times beloved enjoying soccer, nevertheless it was by no means thought of a girls’s sport, so it was a wrestle to play the game that I really like! All through the years, I performed flag soccer to assist fill a void in enjoying sort out soccer. Hoping someday that I may return to enjoying the game that I really like in its entirety. Quick ahead to once I was in a position to get into the WFA, my desires of turning into an expert soccer participant had come true. Enjoying soccer has introduced again that spark in my life the place I discover happiness, the place all my worries appear to simply disappear. Enjoying soccer has at all times appeared to return naturally to me, and that’s one thing that I’m grateful for. I don’t take that present as a right and I exploit it to assist my teammates evolve on the sector as properly. I journey to Los Angeles for observe each month for coaching but in addition to point out my teammates that I’m all in to ensure that we win. Cali Struggle is my second household! All of those girls have accepted me with open arms, and I can actually really feel all of the love! Everybody that’s affiliated with the Cali Struggle has one objective and that objective is to win!”
-Jenny Nunez #98 Defensive Finish / Linebacker
I bought uninterested in the cattiness in feminine sports activities in highschool and determined to check out for the boy’s soccer crew. After I requested the coach if I may check out, he informed me my mom we wanted to fulfill with the principal, who warned me of the hazard of being the one feminine enjoying amongst males. My mom replied with, ‘properly, she performs different sports activities too, and she will be able to get injured enjoying these sports activities, similar as Soccer simply let her play, after which she will be able to resolve if that is what she
needs to do.’
My first expertise with girls’s soccer was enjoying within the Unbiased Girls’s Soccer League (IWFL), the place I performed for ‘The Breakers.’ They have been a enjoyable bunch of girls to play with, blended with coaches who impressed and pushed our crew to the subsequent stage. Throughout my soccer profession I needed to take a while off to totally dedicate my time to my kids. Final season, I wished to retire since I used to be turning 50 this yr, however I couldn’t let that a part of me go. Sadly, I sustained a career-ending damage in February on account of an car accident. It was extraordinarily tough to simply accept that I may now not play the game that I grew up loving in addition to strolling away from the crew and never enjoying this season. Though I could not be capable to bodily play with the crew this yr, the assist for this recreation and my soccer household won’t ever change. Enjoying for the WFA has allowed me to journey the world and play soccer whereas being an envoy of the game to different feminine athletes in different international locations. Cali Struggle is a melting pot with gamers from all over the world, not simply California. The crew is a household stuffed with protectors, friendship, management, progress, and care.
-Mini Ayala #54 retired participant/game-day coordinator
About Cali Struggle Girls’s Soccer Workforce
The Cali Struggle Girls’s Soccer Workforce is a number one drive within the Girls’s Soccer Alliance. With a dedication to athletic excellence and neighborhood influence, the crew represents the power, willpower, and unity of girls in sports activities.
