Ali Krieger

So how did you come to this decision about going to Boston and this new franchise, working on this new project?

And also, what excites you about helping to build something new in the end of ASL?

And you'll be jumping into, you know, just training with new faces, new players, new teammates and a new back five, so to speak.

So how do you think that there'll be challenges presented, you know, for the start of the year for you?

Well, what would make this season a success for you personally and for this group?

Yeah, definitely very excited to see how excited she is to play for Boston Legacy, which says a lot about a team that's in their first year, Jeff.

And I'll go to you for this one.

What does success look like for Boston in this first year?

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of tough to ask Boston, Crystal, to make playoffs their first year.

Like Jeff said, only half of the teams are making the playoffs.

Would a regular season decision day kind of, okay, we have to see what Boston can do to kind of get in and not make it still be considered successful?

Yeah, I think you hit it.

You hit it perfectly.

But not only Boston, we know for Denver as well, Ali, I want to kind of bring both of them to here and expansion teams in general.

What could be their biggest edge or biggest concern for an expansion team specifically?

I think their biggest edge would be just the unpredictability of how they're going to show up, because teams are going to be unfamiliar with the formation and the style and the identity that Jeff was talking about.

Mine's somewhere else now?

Yeah.

But all jokes aside, the foundation has to be there and then they have to worry about week to week and how they can perform week to week and really try to buy into the plan that the leadership group and the coach has designed.

And I think that would look like success because