The Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League’s gamers might lose out on some cash they’d been anticipating. That’s because of a league accomplice and cryptocurrency platform submitting for chapter.

On Monday, Eben Novy-Williams and Emily Caron of Sportico reported that league sponsor Voyager Digital has gone bankrupt. Which will result in gamers not getting what they have been promised out of that deal.

EXCLUSIVE: The @NWSL has informed its gamers that they might be out cash after cryptocurrency platform Voyager Digital, one of many league’s largest companions, filed for chapter earlier this month.https://t.co/nUi0QJW4YA

— Sportico (@Sportico) August 1, 2022

Voyager, who signed on with the NWSL again in December of final yr, was set to pay the league in money. However the different half of their deal was going to be given to gamers by way of cryptocurrency. That’s now in query following the widespread crypto crash and Voyager’s personal chapter submitting. However, as Meg Linehan of The Athletic famous, this information isn’t about potential league doom, however somewhat a potential shortfall for gamers:

yeah, simply to be clear this sentence could be complicated — the gamers’ funds are probably not being paid out, the NWSL is just not out of cash as a leaguehttps://t.co/h5vFwgr1QT

— Meg Linehan (@itsmeglinehan) August 1, 2022

However that is nonetheless probably a blow for the league’s gamers. As per Sportico’s report, these gamers have been anticipated to speculate by means of cryptocurrency, however the accounts have been by no means funded in response to a number of sources conversant in the scenario. The NWSL put out the next assertion:

“The Participant Fund was at all times meant to be distributed into accounts at Voyager in cryptocurrency, with the aim of teaching gamers relating to funding within the crypto area,” the assertion mentioned. “As such, there was at all times danger relating to the volatility of the cryptocurrency market.”

As of Monday afternoon, Voyager was nonetheless featured on the league’s web site. However they’re hoping that Voyager will clarify to the league what occurred and what’s the subsequent step on this scenario.

The excellent news is that the league continues to be rising and receiving different sponsors like CarMax, which is able to supply $5,000 every to gamers on the workforce with the perfect file. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless unlucky for the NWSL gamers to seek out out that they might not get cash that they had been anticipating.

[Sportico]