Courage flourish after heading south
Nov 29, 2019
3 minutes
Glenn Moore
The franchise system may be anathema to Europeans, but in the context of US women’s soccer it appears to work. It is not without casualties, but it serves as an effective substitute source of renewal to the promotion-relegation process of the sport’s traditional heartlands. Further evidence of this came in the seventh season of the NWSL.
After winning the 2016 championship, Western New York Flash were uprooted to Cary, a 650-mile drive south, and renamed North Carolina Courage. The move was tough on Flash fans, but
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