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Boston’s Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League growth staff, which is anticipated to start play in 2026, confirmed on Thursday that it has employed Domènec Guasch because the staff’s first common supervisor. Guasch joins Boston after 13 years at FC Barcelona, most just lately as the top of administration for girls’s soccer.
Guasch is Boston’s first main rent since launching over a 12 months in the past. He would be the most senior-ranking chief on the sporting aspect, the membership mentioned.
“Domènec is a dynamic chief with an distinctive capability to establish and nurture championship-caliber expertise,” controlling proprietor Jennifer Epstein mentioned in an announcement. “His intensive expertise and forward-thinking imaginative and prescient place him completely to steer our sporting operations. Together with his progressive mindset and deep ardour for the sport, I’m assured he’ll lay the muse for a membership constructed to contend from day one.”
Guasch will lead the primary effort in NWSL historical past to construct an growth staff roster with out an growth draft. The newly up to date NWSL collective bargaining settlement abolished drafts of all types.
Boston, which controversially introduced its branding as “BOS Nation FC” in October however strongly indicated final week that it’s contemplating a reputation change (which sources have corroborated to The Equalizer), would be the NWSL’s fifteenth staff. A choice on a sixteenth staff, which might additionally start play in 2026, is anticipated within the coming weeks. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Denver are finalists for the spot.
In Guasch’s most up-to-date position at Barcelona, he oversaw operations and recruitment and led participant contract negotiations — comparable duties typically designated to common managers in america.
Barcelona has received three of the previous 4 UEFA Ladies’s Champions League titles, together with two straight. The staff’s former head coach, Jonatan Giráldez, left this summer season to turn into head coach of the NWSL’s Washington Spirit.
“It’s an unbelievable honor to hitch this membership and step right into a metropolis with such a wealthy custom of sports activities excellence,” Guasch mentioned in an announcement. “The chance to construct this staff from the bottom up is a problem I absolutely embrace, and I’m desirous to create a legacy that our followers and this metropolis will have a good time for years to return. I’m excited to get to work assembling a world-class teaching employees and roster to compete on the highest degree.”
