USWNT's Alex Morgan: Sexual harassment an NWSL-wide problem

United States Women's National Team and Orlando Pride forward Alex Morgan called for the National Women's Soccer League to end the systemic failure that led to a decade of alleged sexual harassment of players by league coaches. 

Last week, the North Carolina Courage fired coach Paul Riley following allegations of sexual harassment spanning over a decade. The announcement came after The Athletic published an investigation in which it spoke with more than 12 players from every team Riley has coached since 2010.

Two players, Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly, went on the record with allegations against Riley. Morgan joined Shim and Farrelly during a Tuesday morning appearance on the NBC's "TODAY" to discuss the situation.

"I'm here to support Mana and Sinead and to continue to amplify their voices, and just show the systemic failure from the league and how wrong they did in handling Mana's case and complaint and investigation and where they failed Mana and Sinead, and probably many other women," Morgan said, according to ESPN. "When I look back, I tried to be as good a friend and teammate as possible to Mana in helping her file a complaint, when at the time there was no anti-harassment policy in place, there was no league HR, there was no anonymous hotline, there was no way to report.

"We've now started to put these things in place, by demand of players, not by the league being proactive. Something we ask is for the league to start being proactive, not reactive. We're asking for transparency."

Last week, Morgan tweeted screenshots of emails that showed former NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird, who recently resigned, had ignored a request from a player to reopen an investigation into Riley.