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Speaker 1: iHeart Women's Sports. The Latest with Sarah Spain. Sources tell

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Speaker 1: The Athletic that the NWSL is awarding its seventeenth franchise

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta with a record expansion fee of one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five million dollars. The new club will be

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Speaker 1: reportedly owned and operated by Arthur Blank's amb Sports Plus Entertainment,

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Speaker 1: the holding company of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, the MLS

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Speaker 1: is Atlanta United, and Mercedes Benz Stadium. For more women's

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