NWSL Star Midge Purce Tired of ‘Derivative’ Marketing in Women’s Sports

Midge Purce has won an NWSL title and made a few dozen appearances for the U.S. women’s national team. Now she’s branching out into the media world, and has thoughts on how her league has been promoted until now.

“I’ve always felt that the NWSL, as well as the way that women’s sports in general is marketed, has been really derivative of men’s sports,” Purce, who missed the Paris Olympics with a torn ACL, said Friday at the Front Office Sports Huddle in the Hamptons event. In Purce’s view, the NWSL takes too much of its cues from MLS, entering the same markets and copying “their structure and their game plans.” Read More

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