# Which videos and podcasts are most useful for NWSL recruitment?


### 1. How do you define the club’s requirements before evaluating technology?

**Title:** [Creating a Club Framework: San Diego Wave](https://www.hudl.com/blog/san-diego-wave-chris-loxston-club-framework)  
**Watch:** [Full conversation on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6fAPvGt32I)  
**Who:** Chris Loxston, identified as San Diego Wave’s Technical Director, in conversation with Ed Sulley.  
**Date:** Companion article published **5 October 2026**; recording date and runtime not confirmed.  
**Perspective:** Club practitioner interview published by Hudl.

**Key takeaways:** The written account separates enduring club requirements from a coach’s tactical choices. Recruitment connects positional profiles, squad constraints and stakeholder agreement. Loxston also describes assessing new technology by its practical contribution to decisions and workflow, rather than its novelty. [Publisher’s interview account](https://www.hudl.com/blog/san-diego-wave-chris-loxston-club-framework). ([hudl.com](https://www.hudl.com/blog/san-diego-wave-chris-loxston-club-framework))

**Desk application:** Before a soccer scouting software trial, write one role brief explaining the football question, required evidence and final decision-maker. Ask each supplier to answer that brief rather than demonstrate its favourite players.

**Caution:** This is a supplier-published customer account, not a comparative product test or verified calculation of savings.

### 2. Are women’s physical benchmarks suitable for your recruitment question?

**Title:** [Women’s Football: Dedicated Data, Smarter Decisions](https://www.skillcorner.com/us/articles/womens-football-dedicated-data-smarter-decisions)  
**Watch:** [Webinar on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6C3nodTxw)  
**Who:** Fleur Lauriot dit Prevost and Victoria Friss de Kereki, identified in SkillCorner’s announcement.  
**Date:** Replay article published **21 October 2026**.  
**Perspective:** Supplier-led methodology and product demonstration. [Presenter announcement](https://fr.linkedin.com/company/skillcorner). ([fr.linkedin.com](https://fr.linkedin.com/company/skillcorner?utm_source=openai))

**Key takeaways:** The webinar explains SkillCorner’s women-specific physical thresholds and combines physical measures with Game Intelligence for player profiling. A presenter’s follow-up describes two case studies—two-way full-backs and box-to-box midfielders—and explains why a narrowly defined index can leave a prominent player outside its displayed shortlist. [Replay notes](https://www.skillcorner.com/us/articles/womens-football-dedicated-data-smarter-decisions) · [Presenter’s methodological follow-up](https://medium.com/@vickyfrissdekereki/where-is-selma-bacha-what-the-data-says-about-her-role-at-lyon-33f0c81d5224). ([skillcorner.com](https://www.skillcorner.com/us/articles/womens-football-dedicated-data-smarter-decisions))

**Desk application:** Request the thresholds, comparison population, minimum-minutes rules and index weights behind a supplier’s ranking. Include a player your scouts rate highly who scores poorly, and require an explanation.

**Caution:** A role-specific ranking is not an overall ability ranking. The demonstration does not verify completeness across your target competition-seasons.

### 3. What can an expansion-club recruitment interview teach an established NWSL buyer?

**Podcast title:** [How to Build an NWSL Roster from Scratch, with Boston Legacy’s Edward Gallagher](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/american-soccer/expected-own-goals-how-to-g42m0ZFav1p/)  
**Watch:** [YouTube version: Boston Legacy’s First Fifteen Games | Did the Experiment Work?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ow4uJ4xaWg&t=1452)  
**Who:** Edward Gallagher, Boston Legacy’s Director of Recruitment, on *Expected Own Goals*.  
**Date:** **24 July 2026**. The linked video opens at **24:12**; audio editions have different listed runtimes.  
**Perspective:** Practitioner interview on a women’s football analysis show.

**Key takeaways:** The episode examines how Gallagher and general manager Domènec Guasch approached building the inaugural squad, what they prioritised and how immediate needs related to longer-term plans. Its value is the recruitment brief behind the roster—not a platform demonstration. [Episode description](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/american-soccer/expected-own-goals-how-to-g42m0ZFav1p/). ([listennotes.com](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/american-soccer/expected-own-goals-how-to-g42m0ZFav1p/?utm_source=openai))

**Desk application:** Ask suppliers to distinguish candidates who solve an immediate squad need from those who fit a development plan. Require their evidence and uncertainty to be stated separately.

**Caution:** One club’s account is not proof that its approach, markets or tools transfer to every NWSL organisation.

### 4. How should analytics support recruitment without becoming a separate decision-making silo?

**Title:** [xOG UNLOCKED: Diving into Data with Boston Legacy’s Jordyn Kaplan](https://podcastaddict.com/expected-own-goals/episode/228929678)  
**Watch:** [YouTube version: Boston Legacy Director Reveals Their Analytics Formula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TL4GU3Gfdw)  
**Who:** Jordyn Kaplan, identified as Boston Legacy’s Director of Data Analytics, on *Expected Own Goals*.  
**Date and length:** **July 2026; approximately 42 minutes**. Listings differ on the precise release day.  
**Access:** Advertised as an unlocked episode.

**Key takeaways:** Kaplan explains a remit spanning recruitment, coaching and performance staff. The publisher describes an approach in which data informs decisions across the organisation rather than independently determining them. [Episode notes](https://podcastaddict.com/expected-own-goals/episode/228929678). ([podcastaddict.com](https://podcastaddict.com/expected-own-goals/episode/228929678))

**Desk application:** For each proposed subscription, name the person who converts its output into a recruitment recommendation and the person who challenges that recommendation. Test that hand-off during the trial.

**Caution:** Organisational practice is the useful subject here; the public notes do not provide a reproducible model specification or supplier scorecard.

### 5. What does women’s recruitment look like inside an event-data workflow?

**Title and watch link:** [Championing Change: Data in Women’s Football Webinar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLD8bIo3X4)  
**Who:** Martha M. Reyna and Alexandre Taylor, with Gotham FC analyst Juan Coste Delvecchio.  
**Date:** YouTube publication **5 February 2024**.  
**Perspective:** StatsBomb-produced webinar with a club practitioner. [Presenter’s description](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martha-m-reyna_championing-change-data-in-womens-football-activity-7161405943866413056-x3OS). ([youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLD8bIo3X4&utm_source=openai))

**Key takeaways:** The published description covers opposition analysis, scouting, player recruitment and a Gotham case study. It is a useful older companion to the physical-data webinar because it presents women’s football applications from an event-data perspective. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martha-m-reyna_championing-change-data-in-womens-football-activity-7161405943866413056-x3OS))

**Desk application:** Give an event-data supplier and a tracking-derived supplier the same role question. Record which findings overlap and which require genuinely different evidence.

**Caution:** Keep the 2024 date visible. Do not use the webinar as a current women’s soccer data-provider coverage comparison or infer present entitlements from the demonstration.