Natalie Portman

Superstar soccer team named as Angel City FC

Oscar-winning superstar Natalie Portman chose a suitably showbiz way of announcing the new name for her National Women's Soccer League side, which will be known as Angel City FC.

The Star Wars actress originally launched the consortium behind the new franchise back in July , alongside fellow celebrity investors such as Serena Williams, Jessica Chastain and Eva Longoria.

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Football, women's football, women's sport

Tackles, Tinseltown and Toddlers: inside the launch of Angel City

When the two-year-old daughter of the world's greatest-ever female tennis player is named as an investor in a new women's football team, you get a sense this isn't a normal club launch.

In fact, there's nothing normal about the birth of Angel City , the name of the investment group set up to form a new expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League.

Oscar-winning...

Actress Natalie Portman leads Los Angeles NWSL expansion team

Oscar-winner Natalie Portman is heading up a consortium of actresses, sports stars and business people to launch a new Los Angeles-based franchise in the National Women's Soccer League.

Although the team is yet to be formally named, the consortium is called Angel City and will be the first professional women's side to play in LA for 12 years. Fellow Hollywood stars Jennifer Garner,...