“Back then we were clandestine players because the league was not Fifa affiliated. Sports quiz of the week: Sergio García, Tony Adams and a floating football | Sport | The Guardian. Last year, the news on the NWSL was that it had officially outlasted the two previous attempts at US women’s professional soccer, the WUSA and WPS. His first 30 days have been about “observing, discussing and collecting information,” with much time spent in the air and behind the wheel of a car.