Is the NWSL Ready to Surf a Global Wave in Women's Soccer?

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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With the U.S. Women’s National Team’s Olympic championship in the rearview mirror, it’s time to turn our attention to the National Women’s Soccer League, as play restarts this weekend. Allegations of widespread sexual and emotional abuse forced a reckoning for the league in 2021. But three years later, a groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement is in effect, investment is pouring in, and franchise values are on the rise. Today, Philadelphia Inquirer soccer reporter Jonathan Tannenwald explains how the U.S. gold medal triumph sets the stage for the remainder of the NWSL season and why, both globally and domestically, the women’s game has never been better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jonathan Tannenwald, you and I have been friends for a long time that matters not at all, except for the fact that you are the person at all times who I come to to talk about women's soccer, which leads me to this question.
0:14.5	What is the coolest game on the women's soccer schedule you've ever covered, sir?
0:20.5	The coolest game I've ever been to. I'll probably say the US-France
0:26.0	Women's World Cup quarter-final in Paris at the 2019 Women's World Cup. Jambed to the ceiling parked at plants. About 12,000 American fans, all the rest were French just screaming at
0:48.0	each other all night.
0:51.0	Ropino, sends it in law, the law, the US.
0:53.0	Stars all over the field, epic game the US won it and went on to win the world.
1:00.0	And they are the world champions again for the fourth time.
1:04.0	The United States of America
1:06.6	are crown champions of the world.
1:09.5	Where did you eat dinner that night?
1:11.3	In the building.
1:12.3	Oh, come come on Johnny.
1:13.0	The U.S. Women's national team's sudden return to Gold Medal form earlier this month is behind us.
1:27.0	And in front of us is the restart of the National Women's Soccer League where nearly all of those Olympic
1:32.2	stars play seven months a year.
1:35.4	So with the slate of weekend games on the docket starting Friday night, my friend and
1:39.7	Philadelphia Inquirer writer Jonathan Tannenwald highlights the teams of players to watch and explains
1:46.0	why both globally and domestically the women's game has never been better.
1:51.7	I'm Clinton Yates. It's Friday, August 23rd. This is ESPN Day. Have you seen the realm of a druid lineup?
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