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    Kevin Baxter: Why buying into Portland Thorns and the NWSL was ‘a no-brainer’ for one family

    by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2024 4 minutes
    Christine Sinclair and Becky Sauerbrunn of Portland Thorns FC go to raise the trophy as they celebrate winning the National Women's Soccer League Championship Match against Kansas City Current at Audi Field on Oct. 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

    LOS ANGELES — When Raj Bhathal immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1960, he gave up the old world for the new, marrying a California beach girl and founding a swimwear company.

    “He’s always been a trailblazer and a pioneer,” said his daughter Lisa. “He was the only one out of all his brothers and sisters not to have an arranged marriage.”

    But the old world ways were never far away. So when Lisa and her brother Alex, who spun the swimwear company into a capital management firm named after their father, began mulling an investment in women’s soccer, they weren’t sure how he would react.

    “He grew up in India [at]

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