On Monday, the National Women’s Soccer League permitted its clubs to use outdoor team training fields starting on Wednesday.
“We are really pleased, and it has been a long layoff,” Dash coach James Clarkson said. “The league did a good job of setting up the protocol and I think as long as we follow the guidelines we can hopefully progress this and hopefully get to a stage where not too far away we are doing team training.”
Clarkson expects all of Houston’s players to participate in the voluntary opportunities, which will come almost two weeks after the intended start to the NWSL season in late April.
When they reconvene, Clarkson wants to build on players’ home workouts and gradually intensify those sessions ahead of formal team training and the eventual start of the season. If the season does start this summer, player fitness will remain a point of concern into the year.
“We do not know what our start date will be,” he said. “I know the NWSL wants to finish the league at the same time as they would have done normally (in October), so they are not planning to extend it and that may well mean mid-week games. We may end up playing twice a week, perhaps every week, and that is where the size of the roster and maintaining it becomes really important.”
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