A Reckoning in Women’s Pro Soccer

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Former National Women’s Soccer League players Sinead Farrelly and Mana Shim went public last week with accusations against coach Paul Riley of sexual coercion and harassment, in an investigative report from The Athletic. Teams cancelled games, the league commissioner stepped down, and players re-took the field with demands for reform. Reporter Caitlin Murray has covered women’s pro soccer since the NWSL started in 2012. She gives the history and impact of this reckoning across the league, and where it goes from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Looks like players from both teams are coming out from the benches and Lori, we wondered what we might see tonight.
0:11.8	Right now, let's just look in.
0:14.4	You can see players from both teams arm in arm linked.
0:17.8	They're all moving to the center circle together right now.
0:24.9	And now a moment after six minutes this was a similar scene about a half hour ago between Gotham and Washington spirit and if this
0:35.0	isn't a shut up and listen to these players' moment, I don't really know what is.
0:40.1	Devastated, disgusted, but I'm not shocked, and that's the problem.
0:51.2	Teams across the National Women's Soccer League took the field and stood together,
0:57.0	amid accounts of player abuse that have come to light forcing a reckoning in this sport.
1:04.0	So today, how women's soccer is handled a week of shocking allegations and what their path ahead might hold.
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