{"id":31399,"date":"2025-09-04T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/macario-celebrates-serena-williams-investment-in-chelsea-womens\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:50:22","slug":"macario-celebrates-serena-williams-investment-in-chelsea-womens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/macario-celebrates-serena-williams-investment-in-chelsea-womens\/","title":{"rendered":"Macario Celebrates Serena Williams’ Investment in Chelsea Women’s"},"content":{"rendered":"Chelsea and United States women’s national team forward Catarina Macario has expressed her enthusiasm for Serena Williams’ recent investment in the club, highlighting the positive impact this has on women’s soccer.\n\n

The Impact of Serena Williams on Women’s Football<\/h2>\n\nIn May, Alexis Ohanian, Williams’ husband and founder of Reddit, announced the purchase of an estimated 8% to 10% stake in the club, valued at approximately 20 million pounds sterling. Macario believes that this investment is a testament to the growth and increasing profitability of women’s football.\n\n

\u201cThis is a victory for women’s football. It’s a victory for women’s sports.\u201d<\/p>Catarina Macario<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMacario emphasized the importance of having renowned figures like Serena Williams supporting the sport. The player highlighted that Williams’ presence on the team is a sign of the progress and the growing popularity of women’s soccer.\n\n\n

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Catarina Macario busca ganar su tercer t\u00edtulo consecutivo de la Women’s Super League en la pr\u00f3xima temporada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nChelsea will begin the defense of their WSL title on Friday against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.\n\nMacario, who joined Chelsea in July 2023, debuted in March 2024, scoring a goal a few minutes after entering the field, after a long recovery from an injury.\n\nThe USWNT forward is used to changes. She moved to the United States from Brazil at age 12, a transition she describes as “very hard, very difficult, which required many sacrifices”.\n\nMacario shared that she feels grateful for the opportunities she has had, including her time at Lyon, where she was key to winning the French title and the Champions League in the 2021-22 season, scoring 23 goals in 33 matches.\n\n\n
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Serena Williams y su esposo, Alexis Ohanian, han invertido en el Chelsea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe departure of Emma Hayes, Chelsea’s coach, at the end of the 2023-24 season to manage her national team, and the arrival of Sonia Bompastor, former Lyon coach, as her replacement, did not stop the team’s success.\n\nMacario commented that he was not surprised by Bompastor’s success, highlighting his winning mentality and his ability to demand the best from each player and staff member.\n\nChelsea, under Bompastor’s direction, achieved an undefeated domestic treble in their first season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea and United States women’s national team forward Catarina Macario has expressed her enthusiasm for Serena Williams’ recent investment in the club, highlighting the positive impact this has on women’s soccer. The Impact of Serena Williams on Women’s Football In May, Alexis Ohanian, Williams’ husband and founder of Reddit, announced the purchase of an estimated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8285,220,962,2199],"class_list":{"0":"post-31399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-catarina-macario","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-serena-williams","11":"tag-womens-super-league"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}