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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a pretty long list:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_NWSL_players[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]There’s a pretty long list:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_NWSL_players[/quote]

Soooo, not to poopoo your list or the search to get facts (which I appreciate and applaud), but it’s not all that it seems, which may not be readily apparent if you haven’t been following women’s football.

The Latinas and Canadians I will skip over, because they will always find their way into the NWSL, since their home countries don’t have fully functioning professional leagues in most cases.  Canada doesn’t have a professional league, but if they did, they would probably join the NWSL, just like with the MLS.  In fact, the DA has teams in Canada.

We should talk roster rules.  First off, the NWSL is only allowed 4 foreign players per roster.  It’s a league rule.  However, while they are allowed 4 per roster, different clubs have traded those 4 spots around, so like Dash in theory has 4, but maybe they only have 1, because they gave up 3 to the Thorns.

Also, if you look at that list, a lot players came in the early stages of the NWSL, played for a year and left.  It started in 2012 by the way.

Some were club trades, like Sonia Bermudez.  She was playing for Barcelona, they gave her a passage to play 1 season with 2014 in the NWSL, then brought her back.  So she was their player.  She eventually left for Atletico and has since stayed in that league.

Some come to the NWSL when they are in between contracts and successfully use that time to gain another contract elsewhere.  Like Ghoutia Karchouni played largely for PSG, spent a year in the NWSL then went back to France to join Bordeaux.  (by the way, I find it telling that France in particularly has such a tiny list of just 2 players.  That is likely because France has a very successfully women’s pro league which has one of the highest average salaries, among other things).  Maruschka Waldus also played in the NWSL briefly, renegotiated a contract to get back to Denmark during that year and went back.

Some are at the end of a career, and come to the NWSL, much as other European players come to the MLS to try to continue a little while longer, like Adriana Martin, who joined for the inaugural season and then left for Chelsea.  As her career was waning, she came back for another season, but has finally gone down to a division 2 team in Spain.  Or like Sonja Fuss, who was at the end of her career after years of playing in Germany, came to the Stars, and then after playing briefly for them, retired from a professional career.   Inka Grings’ career followed a similar trajectory.
I think the NWSL is a great start, but let’s face it.  It is just a start and actually our 3rd try at a women’s pro league.  It has a lot of growing to do, as does American soccer in general.  Because the US WNT won for a while, we fell asleep at the wheel.

Meanwhile, some of these leagues have been around for 30+ years.  Moreover, they have the support of the men’s clubs, which is huge (and also the secret to the Portland Thorns having the largest audiences in the NWSL).  Having those big time coaches, big time fields, clubs, etc supporting them creates a high level environment.
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