{"id":801585,"date":"2026-07-14T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:48:15","slug":"desiree-scott-brings-pro-womens-soccer-to-winnipeg-with-nsl-expansion-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801585\/","title":{"rendered":"Desiree Scott brings pro women&#8217;s soccer to Winnipeg with NSL expansion club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg will join the Northern Super League as its seventh franchise in 2027, the league announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club is co-founded by former Canadian women&#8217;s national team player Desiree Scott and Rob Gale, a former Canada Soccer youth national team coach who most recently served as head coach of the Portland Thorns of the National Women&#8217;s Soccer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scott, a four-time Olympian and Olympic gold medallist, will serve as vice-president of community and player experience, while Gale will take over as chief sporting officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club&#8217;s name, crest and home venue will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Northern Super League launched in 2025 with founding clubs in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winnipeg will become the league&#8217;s first expansion franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg will join the Northern Super League as its seventh franchise in 2027, the league announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,4852,561,715,82],"class_list":["post-801585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-human-interest","tag-soccer","tag-social","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}