{"id":17987,"date":"2023-03-07T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/after-a-season-of-soul-searching-the-nwslpa-is-looking-to-the-future-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:32:48","slug":"after-a-season-of-soul-searching-the-nwslpa-is-looking-to-the-future-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/after-a-season-of-soul-searching-the-nwslpa-is-looking-to-the-future-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"After a season of soul-searching, the NWSLPA is looking to the future \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In just a matter of weeks, the 11th season of the National Women\u2019s Soccer League<\/a><\/strong> will commence. This year however, something is different. At the end of the 2022 season, NWSL players with six years in the league became free agents. For the first time, these players had the ability to negotiate with teams across the league, an historic first achieved through the collective bargaining agreement that highlights the mutual commitment required between players and teams for the continued growth of the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its core, free agency is the freedom to choose where we work, and we\u2019ve never had that before\u201d Tori Huster, the president of the NWSL Players Association told The Equalizer<\/em>. \u201cI chose to stay at the Washington Spirit, and it was very empowering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huster was one of 23 NWSL players that chose to stay with their team<\/a>. Out of the remaining 22 players, 12 signed with new teams, one retired, one moved to a new league and seven remain unsigned to a new club.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The first year of free agency] was kind of like a draft \u2014 it could be the wild, wild west, and you never know what is going to happen,\u201d Huster said. \u201cAll the buzz was fun, even as a player, seeing where others were going to end up was thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Meghann Burke, the executive director of the NWSLPA, the race to sign Debinha was among the most tantalizing aspects of the free agency period and highlights the future of the league. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing how important free agency is to the future of the NWSL. That Debinha chooses to come back to the NWSL and play for Kansas City, she doesn\u2019t do that without free agency,\u201d Burke told The Equalizer<\/em>. \u201cOnce we get through this first season, I think clubs in the league will eventually start to see that this is the way of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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