Willow Bay admits that the pink isn’t quite the right shade on her custom Angel City Football Club Nikes as she walks through the team’s Thousand Oaks training facility.

The massive athletic center opened earlier this year with a 5,400-square-foot gym, three locker rooms and a studio for filming social media content with star players of Los Angeles’ women’s soccer team like Ali Riley, Christen Press and Alyssa Thompson. The space is a testament to the level of investment the team has earned. Bay, the dean of USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, and her husband, Disney CEO Bob Iger, took over controlling ownership of the club last summer with the promise of an additional $50 million in cash to fuel the club’s growth, so she likely will be forgiven for the minor footwear

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