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Wednesday Roundup: USWNT injury updates continue
Also in today’s roundup, Verizon doubles down on A+E deal, and the Utah Royals continue to make moves We're back! #JanuaryCamp is here. Meet the 26 players called in to jumpstart 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ »...
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Utah Royals FC 2017: N/A Head Coach: Laura Harvey (1st season with Royals) Home Ground: Rio Tinto Stadium ’17 in Review: After years of speculation, the ownership of Major League Soccer’s Real Salt...
View ArticleWatkins: Three quick thoughts from the NWSL’s first weekend
Now that the first weekend of NWSL play has officially wrapped up, the larger story-lines of the offseason are beginning to fade and the narrative of the season has begun to unfold. Here are three...
View ArticleTheivam: Thorns scoring shoes, coaching outbursts, and missing players in...
Here are three quick thoughts looking back on Week 2 in NWSL. The Thorns found their shooting boots After their opening day defeat to the Courage last weekend, there were admittedly some mumbles that...
View ArticleMonday Morning Wakeup: Courage still perfect after Week 3
2018 NWSL Table W L D GF GA PTS North Carolina Courage 3 0 0 6 2 9 Seattle Reign FC 2 0 0 2 1 6 Portland Thorns FC 2 1 0 5 4 6 Chicago Red Stars 1 1 1 4 4 4 Washington Spirit 1 2 0 5 6 3 Houston Dash...
View ArticleThe Lowdown: Dash, Royals exhale; Sky Blue remain winless
The Houston Dash and Utah Royals collected their first wins of the season over the weekend, leaving Sky Blue — who twice equalized against the Dash only to lose 3-2 on their home field — as the final...
View ArticleTracking Back: The Utah Royals are tightening things up
Of all of the re-vamped teams that have begun to settle into a groove after the tumultuous NWSL offseason, the Utah Royals presented perhaps the greatest dichotomy of expectations. They are a brand-new...
View ArticleWatkins: Not quite the beautiful game in Portland on Friday
The Portland Thorns went back to their winning ways at home on Friday evening, handing the Utah Royals their first away loss of the season 2-0 behind goals from Christine Sinclair and Lindsey Horan....
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The Lowdown: Royals find a way without stars, continue maturation process
It was last Friday and the Utah Royals, on the franchise’s first trip to New Jersey, were preparing to face Sky Blue FC the following evening. The team was training at Rutgers, but no team—including...
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The Lowdown: Comparing Courage, Sky Blue to the streaks they’re chasing
The NWSL season has been on for nearly three months, and some teams will begin the back half of their schedules this weekend. For two teams the season has had a consistent ring to it. In North Carolina...
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The Lowdown: How Brooke Elby helped Laura Harvey land Christen Press
Laura Harvey never met a draft pick she wasn’t willing to trade. And so when she took over as coach of the Utah Royals, who slipped into National Women’s Soccer League with assurances of holding the...
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(Mid)week 14 preview: Laura vs Vlatko takes on new wrinkle
Sky Blue plays their 12th game of the season tonight, making them the last team to hit the halfway mark. A bigger milestone awaits, however; if they don’t win, they break the record for longest winless...
View ArticleThe Equalizer Podcast Episode 18: Say what you want to say
Laura Harvey spoke her truth after her team’s match against the Orlando Pride, and on this episode of the Equalizer Podcast, so did we. Chelsey Bush and Claire Watkins joined Dan Lauletta in discussing...
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The Lowdown: Controversy and heartbreak in New Jersey — for the winless and...
Utah Royals FC and Sky Blue FC are both back at it Wednesday night for away matches, four days after their 2-2 draw at Yurcak Field in New Jersey left a bitter taste in pretty much everyone’s mouth....
View ArticleHow a chance meeting at the U-17 World Cup brought Vero Boquete to the Utah...
At some point during what has been an eerily quiet offseason for the National Women’s Soccer League, Laura Harvey realized that none of her comrades were going to be sending her what she felt were the...
View ArticleThe Equalizer Podcast Live from the 2019 USC Convention: Utah Royals head...
The Equalizer was lucky enough to be included in the United Soccer Coaches Convention’s first Podcast Row in Chicago, where we caught up with personalities from across the soccer world. On this...
View ArticleMemorial Stadium: An imperfect NWSL fortress (2014-2018)
Memorial Stadium was a boon for Seattle Reign FC when the club took up residence there beginning in the 2014 season. After a season at the quaint but inconvenient Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila,...
View ArticleWhere are all the female coaches? Still navigating an unequal landscape
Every year, when the National Women’s Soccer League coaches are brought together for the college draft at the United Soccer Coaches Convention, they take a picture as a group. It’s usually the only...
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Utah Royals 2019 season preview: Harvey knows her team now
On paper, it looked like Laura Harvey had simply inherited a complete team, as if the National Women’s Soccer League powers that be had plucked FC Kansas City, moved them 1,000 miles to the west, and...
View ArticleNWSL Saturday: Utah Royals pick up three points over Orlando Pride
Utah Royals FC 1, Orlando Pride 0 Three defenders didn’t bother Christen Press. The striker maneuvered around three different Orlando Pride defenders to net the lone goal for the Utah Royals FC. Utah...
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