Feb. 24, 2026
Jordan Angeli co-founded For Denver FC and helped bring the NWSL to Colorado. In this episode, she tells the full story of how Denver Summit FC went from a Twitter DM in 2023 to 45,000 tickets sold for the inaugural home opener—before playing a single game. We cover the entire journey: organizing watch parties for a team that didn't exist, convincing Rob Cohen to become majority owner, bringing Peyton Manning and Mikaela Shiffrin into the ownership group, and what it meant when Lindsey (Horan) Heaps chose to come home to play for Denver Summit FC. Jordan is a Colorado native, former NWSL player (Boston Breakers, Washington Spirit, Western New York Flash), and co-host of the Soccerwise podcast. She's now part-owner and ambassador for Denver Summit FC. This is the story of how a grassroots movement became a professional sports franchise in one of the fastest NWSL expansion timelines ever.
