Ali Krieger

And then that brings the question of if she does go, then what was this all for, right?

Now who's the next player that's going to get the $2 million deal when we see, you know, most of our talent leave to go have a new experience and to go play Champions League and to continue to grow and develop in the way that they want to because they are still very young, 23, 24, 25 years old, and they still have a lot of football left to play.

So

that's always going to be available to her and to other players as well.

And the leagues around the world are only going to continue to get better, just like the NWSL.

So NWSL has to continue to find ways to improve itself and to not dilute the player pool or the organizations by adding

More organizations each and every year where the quality then is a little bit diluted and the parity is No longer good enough to have you know weekend and week out games that are very competitive So we're gonna start to see some change but then it's you know in three years what's gonna happen when she's 26 27 years old still

in the prime of her career and able to go overseas and play for a huge club and try to win a Champions League.

So we'll have to see.

But as of right now, it's a good thing that we have Trinity Rodman for three more years in the NWSL.

And it'll be exciting to be able to show some of our highlights here and talk about...

You know how brilliant she's going to be for Washington and then the national team leading into the World Cup.

Yeah.

It should be, right?

They've gotten so close two years in a row.

And I think that the third time could be a charm for the Washington spirit.

They certainly have the quality.

They have the star power.

They even have the depth, right?

We've seen that.