It’s already been a seismic couple of weeks for the National Women’s Soccer League, from the announcement of a landmark deal with players that abolished the draft system, to Thursday’s record-breaking $250m sale of Angel City. But the league clearly does not intend to rest on its laurels.
On Friday, two new recruits to the NWSL’s leadership team were unveiled: Sarah Gregorius, the former women’s football lead at the world players’ union, Fifpro, joins as senior director, sporting, while Karla Thompson, the former San Diego Wave executive director of performance and development, becomes the league’s new director of youth development. Both roles are designed to continue to raise standards for players around welfare and provisions, and to develop more homegrown stars, as the league enters a new era without a college draft.
