But he will be remembered best at the end of every regular season, when a new batch of coaches and general managers are fired and teams scramble to find their successors. Veteran US sportscaster Jack Whitaker was the play-by-man man. 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. And at 37, he was probably not going to get a better opportunity than the one he found himself with on the last day of the Masters.