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NWSL's Racing Louisville FC To Host First-Ever Int'l Women's Cup

Louisville will play host to the inaugural edition of the Int'l Women’s Cup, a "four-team event that will take place over two days" featuring a pair of teams from the UEFA Champions League and two clubs representing the NWSL, according to Jonathan Saxon of the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 18 and Saturday, Aug. 21, with "all games being hosted at Lynn Family Stadium." NWSL expansion club Racing Louisville FC, set to begin play in '21, and the Chicago Red Stars "will represent the NWSL" in the event. The international clubs "will be announced in the coming weeks" (Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, 1/20).

POST-OLYMPICS BUZZ: Red Stars Owner Arnim Whisler said that global promoters "approached Louisville about putting together a tournament that would be commercially interesting," and the city's new NWSL team "saw it as the perfect opportunity to intensify its budding I-65 rivalry with the Red Stars and invited Chicago to participate." Whisler said that the Int'l Women's Cup "would be a weekend of activities in Louisville centered around international sports." Whisler, noting that the tournament will be played just after the Tokyo Games, said that the "goal is to capitalize on that energy and boost the league's global brand building" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 1/20).

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