Back to the Swansea City Newsfeed

USL Super League: Threat to the NWSL or potential partner?

Like

7

There is an inevitable question USL Super League president Amanda Vandervort faces in just about any interview, a version of which she has answered ad nauseum before the league she oversees even played a game: Why did the USL Super League launch as a first-division women's soccer league when the National Women's Soccer League is already thriving as the United States' preeminent competition, and is arguably the best league in the world?

"Those Division 1 sanctioning standards were what we believed was right for the Super League, and so that's what we set forth," Vandervort told ESPN.