NWSL groups with Amazon Prime to launch ‘For the Win’ docu-series

March 10 – Following within the steps of ‘All or Nothing’, Amazon Prime has simply launched ‘For the Win: NWSL’, the primary docuseries dedicated to the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League, and the story of the 2024 play-offs.

The collection will provide a full immersive expertise and go behind-the-scenes because the post-season unfolded.

In addition to the play-offs, the theme of this primary collection is a altering of the guard. USWNT superstars, Alex Morgan, Kelly O’Hara, and Becky Sauerbrunn, all retired in the course of the 2024 season making method for a brand new technology. Barbra Banda, Croix Collette Bethune, and Trinity Rodman, daughter of NBA maverick, Dennis Rodman are all featured.

The 4-part collection goals to fulfill long-term followers of the league, nonetheless, it’s extra geared in the direction of viewers who could also be newbies to girls’s skilled soccer.

Final Tuesday on the Paley Heart for Media in New York Metropolis, NWSL commissioner, Jessica Berman mentioned reaching new followers is “the theme of 2025”.

“You’re going to see numerous initiatives to provide not simply our present core followers however future followers, too, a chance to find us,” Berman mentioned throughout a Q&A moderated by former NFL quarterback Eli Manning, a Gotham FC minority proprietor, with Gotham defender Nealy Martin and the movie’s director, Marie Margolius.

“That was the entire technique behind our media deal, and that’s going to be what you’re going to see manifest all through this yr, which is to see the NWSL and our gamers exhibiting up in unsuspecting locations.”

The league had been pitched by a wide range of manufacturing firms earlier than settling with Phrases + Photos. Prime Video then agreed to hold the collection.

“Telling (gamers’) tales, each on and off the pitch, is the easiest way for us to verify everyone is aware of who we’re,” Berman mentioned, “and hopefully then drive them in the direction of watching the video games, as a result of that’s how we’re going to develop the enterprise and get these gamers paid what they’re value.”

‘For the Win: NWSL’ options membership rivalries, rising stars, retirements, and what’s subsequent for the league because it strikes into 2025.

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