Merritt Paulson removed himself as the CEO the MLS’s Portland Timbers and the National Women’s Soccer League’s Thorns Tuesday in the aftermath of a bombshell investigation that uncovered systemic emotional abuse and sexual misconduct in the NWSL
Merritt Paulson removed himself as the CEO the Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers and the National Women’s Soccer League’s Thorns Tuesday in the aftermath of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct in the NWSL.
The results of the independent investigation–commissioned by the U.S. Soccer Federation and led by former acting U.S. attorney general Sally Q. Yates and the law firm King & Spalding–said Paulson helped cover up sexual abuse and coercion allegations made against former Thorns coach Paul Riley during his time with the franchise in 2014 and ’15.
. “Effective immediately, I am removing myself as CEO of the Portland Thorns and Portland Timbers, and announcing a global search for a CEO of the organization.”president of soccer and general manager Gavin Wilkinson and president of business Mike Golub of their duties for their own involvement in enabling a toxic workplace environment.
The report also uncovered an 2013 incident involving Golub in which he made an inappropriate sexual remark to former Thorns coach and current U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone. Golub has been previously accused of creating a “toxic” work environment that reportedly included “lewd comments toward female employees and inappropriate physical contact,”
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