United States women's national team star Alex Morgan believes former Portland Thorns teammate Mana Shim "was failed by the system" after being subjected to sexual misconduct by then-coach Paul Riley.
Morgan opened up about sexual and verbal abuse across the NWSL as a whole in an interview with ESPN:
"It was really difficult to see that the Thorns 'parted ways' with Paul Riley rather than firing him — I don't even know if it was released that they were letting him go, I think it was that they parted ways. And at that time it was really devastating because I had helped Mana do the right thing, which was reporting Paul to the league and hoping that they would take action and hold him accountable, and she went through all the right steps to report someone who was sexually harassing her, to stop what was being done that was incredibly wrong, and she was failed.