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Jeff KassoufJul 15, 2025, 05:20 PM ET
- Jeff Kassouf covers women's shot for ESPN, focusing connected the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, helium founded The Equalizer, a women's shot quality outlet, and helium antecedently won a Sports Emmy astatine NBC Sports and Olympics.
Denver's 2026 NWSL enlargement squad is adjacent to finalizing the prosecute of Nick Cushing arsenic the club's archetypal caput coach, aggregate sources confirmed to ESPN.
Cushing is the erstwhile caput manager of Manchester City Women and MLS broadside New York City FC.
He has spent the past 2 decades with the City Football Group, initially joining the enactment successful 2006 arsenic an academy coach.
Most recently, Cushing returned to Manchester City Women arsenic interim manager successful March aft Gareth Taylor was fired. Cushing had antecedently coached Manchester City Women for 7 years from 2013-2020, guiding the squad to a league rubric successful 2016 and an FA Women's Cup rubric the pursuing year.
Cushing stayed wrong the City Football Group erstwhile helium became an adjunct manager of New York City FC successful 2020. He was connected the team's unit for its MLS Cup triumph successful 2021.
Cushing took implicit arsenic interim caput manager of NYCFC midway done the 2022 MLS play earlier being promoted to full-time caput manager aboriginal that year.
He was NYCFC's full-time caput manager for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. The squad failed to suffice for the playoffs successful 2023 and finished sixth successful the Eastern Conference successful 2024.
Denver wide manager Curt Johnson previously told ESPN that helium was prioritizing "getting the close person," but that the close manager besides needed to beryllium available.
Denver, which is yet to unveil its branding, volition statesman play successful the NWSL adjacent play alongside Boston Legacy FC to bring the league to 16 teams. Boston antecedently announced Portuguese manager Filipa Patão as the team's archetypal caput coach.
