Alex Morgan will play her final NWSL game this Sunday in San Diego after announcing her retirement from professional soccer earlier this week. She’ll also provide a reminder of her commercial muscle at the same time.
The NWSL announced Sunday’s match between San Diego Wave FC and the North Carolina Courage, originally slated for streaming on NWSL+ (the league’s own free streaming platform) and Paramount+, will now be presented across multiple channels and streaming services from the league’s media partners, the league said Friday.
The match will now air on CBS Sports Network and ESPN2, and stream on Paramount+, ESPN+, Amazon Prime Video and NWSL+ at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
It marks the first time, according to the league, that a women’s sporting event will be shown across multiple outlets at the same time in the U.S. — and it’s a sign of how strong the league and their media partners expect the interest in Morgan’s final game to be.
CBS Sports will also add both pre- and post-game studio shows around the Wave match (each set for 30 minutes, starting at 7:30 p.m. ET), with Maura Sheridan and Jordan Angeli on the call in the booth, and Jenny Chiu serving as pitch-side reporter in San Diego.
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