Serena in attendance As Chelsea wins Women’s FA Cup at Wembley to clinch domestic treble

With tennis great Serena Williams in attendance, Chelsea completed a trophy treble in an unbeaten domestic season in English soccer by defeating Manchester United 3-0 in the Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Williams watched the match at England’s national soccer stadium in London while sitting alongside her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who announced on Wednesday he had bought a stake in Chelsea’s women’s team. It’s reportedly a 10% stake for about 20 million pounds ($26.5 million).

Ohanian is now part of a club that is the dominant force in the English women’s game, adding the FA Cup to its League Cup and a sixth straight Women’s Super League this season. Chelsea has achieved the domestic treble for the second time in five years — and did it this time without losing a game in any of the three competitions.

In an interview with the BBC, Ohanian described Chelsea’s serial trophy winners as “the queens of global soccer” and said he’d try to help them become “the best team in the world and at the forefront of women’s sport.

“This will be a billion-dollar franchise one day,” Ohanian said. “I hope my dollars, my pounds, can go toward that and especially back home in America. This is going to be America’s team.”

*****Additional Report from AP****

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