Stephanieyang

It happens every season: the exodus of mid-level players from NWSL, citing a need to spend time with their families or get on with their post-soccer careers. You know, because they strung together a life while they played soccer but it's not going to pay the bills forever, so it's time for a real world […]

You might have heard, Abby Wambach is retiring today. So that means one last media circus. One last round of interviews. One last word cloud of sound bites. Wambach deleted her Twitter account as part of a Gatorade campaign. She was on Bill Simmons' podcast. US Soccer busted out one last T-shirt to grab that […]

There's a new team in town, and their name is the Orlando Pride. Major League Soccer franchise Orlando City SC bought in to the National Women's Soccer League, announcing they would field a women's side starting in 2016. They're now the third MLS team to do so, after the Portland Timbers started the Thorns and […]

The National Women's Soccer League rang in its offseason on Monday with four significant trades, finalizing the previously reported Alex Morgan deal while seeing other U.S. internationals land in Seattle and Orlando. Along with announce the upcoming expansion draft's protected/unprotected lists, it will likely be the busiest day of the league's third offseason. Here's what […]

It’s completely unprecedented: a women’s professional soccer league in the United States reaching a fourth season. Not only that, the National Women’s Soccer League hasn’t lost a single founding club in three years and has successfully added an expansion team, with a second on the way. By the time the league begins its fourth season […]

It’s a question that has plagued every women’s soccer league in the United States since the Women’s United Soccer Association collapsed: How do you get people to come to games, and keep coming to games? How do you grab people’s attention, then turn that into loyalty? On the surface, it may seem like a fairly […]

When the National Women’s Soccer League was conceived, one team stood out for being the only club at the time to be affiliated with a Major League Soccer side. The Portland Thorns fell under the same umbrella as owner Merritt Paulson’s Timbers and would share front office staff and facilities. It also meant they would […]

Over the coming weeks, Stephanie Yang, new contributor to World Soccer Talk, will be tackling a series of major questions facing the National Women's Soccer League as it approaches its third offseason. In her first installment, Stephanie analyzes the league's expected partnership with Orlando City SC – potentially the third Major League Soccer franchise to venture into the NWSL. The NWSL is not like […]