Kang is a slight determine however when she walks into the canteen room in heels at Cobdown Park for the unique interview with BBC Sport, her presence cannot be ignored.
She shakes palms with everybody, introducing herself warmly earlier than taking her seat, cautious to not damage her glamorous gown.
It’s clear Kang is a highly-intelligent girl from early conversations. She has humour, compassion and a variety of data in what she talks about.
Her multi-club possession mannequin has develop into a subject of dialog as girls’s soccer continues to develop and explores new methods to hunt income.
She has invested closely in London Metropolis Lionesses’ infrastructure, taking part in workers and female-specific analysis and it has paid off to this point.
Will it develop into a mannequin that others comply with?
“I do not know if they are saying ‘we’ll comply with this mannequin’ however I feel for those who come into girls’s soccer and have actual, real pursuits of supporting girls’s soccer, it is a no-brainer conclusion,” says Kang.
“We do not have the massive media deal that the lads have. We do not sell-out stadiums but. We do not have a whole lot and tens of millions of {dollars} of company sponsorships. However we nonetheless wish to advance girls’s soccer by investing in it.
“So what is the pure conclusion? It’s a must to construct a scale. There isn’t any motive why each workforce ought to spend money on feminine analysis. We must always pool that analysis collectively and share it. It is the identical with world scouting.
“I do know it has dangerous connotations on the lads’s facet with greed and all these issues, however in girls’s soccer it is a necessity till now we have first rate business sources accessible.”
Kang glows with pleasure on the work being finished behind her, turning to level on the coaching floor’s building work to enhance services.
She has used the Premier League as a benchmark on the requirements required for achievement and has designed, with architects, a plan she needs to copy throughout all her golf equipment to offer one of the best surroundings.
Kang returns to this when requested whether it is upsetting that some recommend she indicators gamers from her different golf equipment in a method of manipulating the market.
Does she signal gamers from Paris St-Germain, Lyon’s rivals, to learn her French membership? It is without doubt one of the principal criticisms of multi-club possession – a mannequin which isn’t universally preferred.
“I perceive it as a result of they have not seen this but so it is solely pure for folks to imagine that as a result of within the males’s world, [it is perceived that] groups purchase gamers to allow them to promote them for a a lot increased worth,” provides Kang.
“Within the absence of every other various, it isn’t unreasonable to assume, ‘oh, that’s what she is doing’. I get that. My job is to make sure I do not do this to allow them to respect they aren’t the identical fashions.
“It isn’t about constructing a feeder system – that’s not the aim. It’s to convey important scale so we are able to spend money on all the required infrastructure and analysis how our gamers should be one of the best athletes. So we are able to put out one of the best product, so we are able to convey extra folks into the stadiums, and the media finds girls’s sport engaging.
“It is all associated and all mandatory. Whereas we’re speaking about comparisons… girls’s soccer could be very totally different to males’s soccer. We must always actually deal with this in another way.”
