Is There a Central Repository for Harassment?

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The NWSL didn't even have its own anti-harassment policy until roughly last year. The league is ultimately a business, right? Each one of them is their own individual business. They're not supposed to be interfering with each other or being overseen too much by the league top down. But that also means there's not like a central repository.

Allegations of misconduct have rocked US women’s soccer for the last year. The Athletic’s Steph Yang breaks down a new report on the degree to which league officials ignored complaints and protected abusers.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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