Kansas Metropolis Present ahead Temwa Chaŵinga and Portland Thorns FC defender Reyna Reyes in March 2024.
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The 2024 Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League season marked a major second for the game. After years of scandals and abuse, there was a run of excellent information tales.
The NWSL introduced a historic broadcast deal. The participant switch price was damaged 3 times (after which once more in 2025). And extra younger gamers had been selecting to play within the U.S., bucking the European development. In the meantime, the on-field highlights from a slew of younger and veteran gamers made the video games thrilling to look at.
A brand new docuseries from Prime Video premiering on Thursday, titled For the Win: NWSL, takes place within the closing weeks of the 2024 season and highlights a league in transition.
The trailer for “For the Win: NWSL.”
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Three issues to know:
- The docuseries highlights a altering of the guard. Gamers like Alex Morgan, Kelley O’Hara, Becky Sauerbrunn and Christine Sinclair all retired in 2024. Megan Rapinoe retired in 2023. It has been a loss for each the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce and the NWSL. These girls had been a part of a golden era that fought for equal pay and taking part in circumstances and set a brand new normal for methods to play the sport.
- The collection follows a more moderen era — like Barbra Banda, Temwa Chaŵinga and Croix Collette Bethune — who’re already setting a brand new normal. Chaŵinga, who’s 26, broke the report for targets in a season in 2024. Bethune, who’s 23, tied the league’s single-season help report in 2024 and was the primary participant to win Rookie of the Yr and Midfielder of the Yr concurrently.
- And the collection presents a behind-the-scenes have a look at the tradition constructing across the NWSL. This consists of issues just like the Kansas Metropolis Present beginning the 2024 season taking part in within the first soccer stadium on the earth constructed for a girls’s skilled sports activities workforce. Within the Prime Video collection, gamers discuss how the “loud and obnoxious” followers embraced CPKC Stadium and made it a troublesome place for opposing groups.
What subsequent for the NWSL?
The 2025 season begins on March 14. Gamers can have lots on the road outdoors of successful a championship. Whereas there aren’t any main worldwide tournaments scheduled, youthful gamers might be attempting to make the case for why they belong on the nationwide workforce, coached by Emma Hayes.
