Orlando Sentinel

NWSL Players Associatio­n names 18-player board for 2020 season

- By Julia Poe

The NWSL Players Associatio­n has announced its new leaders, naming 18 players to its board of representa­tives for the 2020 season.

The players associatio­n represents all players in the league who are not allocated by their respective national teams. This excludes all U.S. and Canadian national team players named to the 2020 allocation lists.

The players associatio­n board will represent players during a critical year for the league. Women’s soccer saw a major boom in support following the success of the 2019 FIFA World Cup and it translated into a record-setting spike in attendance during the latter half of the NWSL season.

In the offseason, the league named Lisa Baird as its new commission­er — filling a position that was vacant for three years — and inked a new broadcast deal with CBS and Twitch.

The new representa­tives will also be tasked with helping to deal with the

NWSL season that’s been postponed due to the spread of the coronaviru­s.

2020 NWSL Players Associatio­n board:

 ?? WILF THORNE/ISI ?? Orlando Pride defender Toni Pressley, right, was named to the NWSL Players Associatio­n board.
WILF THORNE/ISI Orlando Pride defender Toni Pressley, right, was named to the NWSL Players Associatio­n board.

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