On this week's episode of THE MIXXED ZONE, "The Keeper" Jen Cooper talks with KeeperNotes.com managing editor Hal Kaiser about the state of the NWSL after the departure of the Olympians as well as the how the league has grown in unseen ways. Hal also shares his thoughts on the China and New Zealand squads for the Olympics. Then Jen replays an interview from last summer – a chat with Marty Mankamyer, one of the three women who pushed US Soccer and the US Olympic committee to create a women's national team and get women's soccer added to the 1996 Olympics.

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