Lots of European and South America clubs who have Football Club as part of their official name don't include FC in ordinary uses of the name, like standings and scores and a zillion other mundane uses. MLS/NWSL clubs should follow their example and not tack FC onto the name everywhere it is used.
Bit of team/league infrastructure news this week: apparently Angel City will be taking over the old LA Rams facility at CLU and revamping it for WoSo. It will be the largest training center among NWSL teams - though, still being 50 miles from downtown LA, they don't consider it their permanent training home.
Lots of juicy news drops in the Firday pre-championship presser https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/59...nver-nwsl-expansion-finalists-jessica-berman/ Highlights: While there will be no league-wide standard, it sounds like there will be a growing effort to establish youth training/identification and path-to-pro starting next year. My take on this: with no planned league-wide standard, this process had already technically started years ago with several current NWSL teams already having academy teams in WPSL/W-League, so I'm guessing this 2025 push will be for every team to have some sort of path-to-pro plan, which I hope means nearly every team getting an academy and/or reserve squad MIL Bucks owner Marc Lasry is in the process of buying the NC Courage. There is an active sexual harassment lawsuit against Lasry. NWSL is in regular communications with the NSL (Canada) for future collaborations. I would personally expect the Summer Cup to expand so it includes all three* North American pro leagues. *I'm ignoring USLSL for now, it's just never going to be at the same level
The Spain-to-NWSL staff pipeline continues as Boston hire Domenec Guasch from Barca as their first GM
AS Interview with Giraldez: https://en.as.com/soccer/washington...-deep-down-i-feel-marta-deserved-the-title-n/ The Spanish version is somewhat longer, he says he rates the season an 8.5 (out of 10?) https://as.com/futbol/femenino/giraldez-en-el-fondo-me-alegro-marta-se-merecia-el-titulo-n/
Not NWSL news directly, but still quite relevant to the 2027 season. Netflix gets US broadcasting rights to 2027, 2031 Women's World Cups.
I guess that's an indicator that what's left of Fox Sports won't be a competitor for international rights anymore. I'm surprised Comcast didn't get it for Peacock. Did they split the US rights English vs Spanish again? Maybe they still take it as Telemundo.