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The National Women’s Soccer League offseason is in full swing with the two expansion teams announcing their arrivals with some flashy trades. But let’s take one final look back at the NWSL Championship.
It is finally an event
The NWSL Championship is finally an event. It was poignant that OL Reign were at the game since they participated in 2014 and 2015 and three current players — Lauren Barnes, Jess Fishlock and Megan Rapinoe — and head coach Laura Harvey were all part of that team. They all remember the impromptu media session under rainy bleachers at Seattle Pacific University. That was 2014, a year before NWSL gave us the slip by making the late change to the pre-determined final venue and put the game on a Thursday night.
That was the turning point though, albeit a narrow turn that took awhile to complete. There was some buzz during that September/October week in 2015. Subsequent finals in Houston and Orlando missed the mark for a variety of reasons we don’t need to revisit…
