No workforce has ever gone a complete season unbeaten within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League. That is the historic precedent the Orlando Delight are on the cusp of breaking.
‘Anybody can beat anybody on their day’ is a saying that seems trite when describing different leagues, although it holds water within the NWSL. In 2018, when that nice North Carolina Braveness of Debinha, Lynn Williams, Crystal Dunn et al. misplaced simply as soon as within the common season, they went above and past all expectations. No one had finished it, not even the 2014 Seattle Reign, who began the yr on a 16-game unbeaten run however misplaced twice.
This yr, nonetheless, Orlando finds itself on the verge of going one higher, with out a single loss in 22 video games. How the Delight achieved that is as exceptional as the truth that they, as soon as the laughingstock of the NWSL, have finished it in any respect.
This yr’s success was born out of adversity. In 2022, the membership was in chaos, and never for the primary time. They discovered themselves in search of a brand new head coach for the fourth time in seven years — and so they didn’t need to look far.
