{"id":68619,"date":"2026-03-10T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/ex-uswnt-player-lauren-holiday-calls-for-harmonised-womens-calendar\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:55:12","slug":"ex-uswnt-player-lauren-holiday-calls-for-harmonised-womens-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/ex-uswnt-player-lauren-holiday-calls-for-harmonised-womens-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-USWNT player Lauren Holiday calls for \u2018harmonised\u2019 women\u2019s calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Holiday currently chairs ownership group Mercury13<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mercury13 completed purchase of FC Badalona women<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>NWSL plays in summer, opposite of European leagues<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two-time Olympic Gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner Lauren Holiday has called for the global harmonisation of the women\u2019s soccer calendar to help grow the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so could echo a recent move by Major League Soccer to move to a European, fall-to-spring schedule from July 2027. Holiday, a former USWNT forward, believes the women\u2019s game could follow their example, or do the opposite and have everyone play through the summer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/10\/lauren-holiday-womens-soccer-calendar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday currently chairs ownership group Mercury13 Mercury13 completed purchase of FC Badalona women NWSL plays in summer, opposite of European leagues Two-time Olympic Gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner Lauren Holiday has called for the global harmonisation of the women\u2019s soccer calendar to help grow the sport. Doing so could echo a recent move &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-USWNT player Lauren Holiday calls for \u2018harmonised\u2019 women\u2019s calendar\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/ex-uswnt-player-lauren-holiday-calls-for-harmonised-womens-calendar\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-USWNT player Lauren Holiday calls for \u2018harmonised\u2019 women\u2019s calendar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}