You might have heard that USWNT wunderkind Mallory Pugh has decided not to play for UCLA and is instead turning pro.
The question now is: where?
How we got here
In the initial flurry of speculation, it sounded like there were two basic options: a team in Europe who could afford her salary, or NWSL. The Washington Spirit currently have first stab at Pugh’s rights as per the league’s rules about “Unattached Federation Individuals,” or “an Individual who a Federation has designated as a potential Federation Player, but whose rights are not yet controlled by a Team.