How fitting that Orlando’s first bigtime professional sports championship was won by a team called the Pride – sort of poetic justice for a city that has long waited for a championship it could be proud to call its own.

The Orlando Pride won the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) championship following a 1-0 win over the Washington Spirit at a sold-out CPKC Stadium in Kansas City on Saturday.

Orlando's win gave Brazilian star Marta her first NWSL title. The 38-year-old Marta, considered arguably the greatest female soccer player of all time, joined the Orlando Pride in 2017 but had never reached an NWSL championship game until this year.