USL Super League: Threat to the NWSL or potential partner?

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There is an inevitable question USL Super League president Amanda Vandervort faces in just about any interview, a version of which she has answered ad nauseum before the league she oversees even played a game: Why did the USL Super League launch as a first-division women's soccer league when the National Women's Soccer League is already thriving as the United States' preeminent competition, and is arguably the best league in the world?

"Those Division 1 sanctioning standards were what we believed was right for the Super League, and so that's what we set forth," Vandervort told ESPN. "It was never about anything other than what's right for us for the long-term…