The Australian superstar returns to the US after a seven-year absence – and will find a vastly changed landscape
When Sam Kerr last played for the National Women’s Soccer League’s Big Apple-adjacent club, it was called Sky Blue, and the playing conditions were comparatively abysmal. The Australian striker spent three years (from 2015-17) accruing accolades for a team infamously bereft of locker rooms or running water at its training facility. This July, she returned to a vastly evolved franchise that has won two NWSL Championships in three seasons while implementing a comprehensive overhaul of its players, personnel and prioritization of player conditions.
Kerr’s return, called “a landmark moment for our club” by the president of soccer operations, Yael Averbuch West – whose
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