A season on the brink: wide-open NWSL making strides as fifth year kicks off Read moreFifty years ag. “When I got there, there no players, no goalposts, no uniforms, no soccer balls,” Toye said. 4) NWSL players organizingThe US women’s labor deal includes passing references to the NWSL as well . All those false injury breaks and convenient lavatory breaks, when losing, suggest otherwise.