The Washington Spirit players have refrained from addressing on-field matters the past two weeks, doing so again after Saturday’s 2-0 win against OL Reign in in Tacoma, Wash. And meanwhile, they saw one of the bigger off-field developments with Thursday’s report that controlling owner Steve Baldwin plans to sell the team.
“We’re honestly still waiting on an update,” said Spirit midfielder Tori Huster, president of the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association. “It sounds like it’s going to require a little bit more time than we would like. But we want the process of a sale or whatever happens to proceed correctly, so we’re hoping that with the [NWSL] executive committee and the other board of governors that are overseeing the league right now, that they are really intentional about whatever ownership comes into the Washington Spirit.