With 10 wins in 10 games, Melbourne City won the W-League regular-season title in record fashion. Former Pepperdine star Anisa Guajardo, who represents Mexico internationally, is the loneAmerican representative on Melbourne City, but other teams in the Australian women’s league are loaded with Americans, 17 in all. Most of the Americans play on loan from […]
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Year of the woman, soccer champions Lynch, Allard and Dodd (and the '15ers)
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) By any measurement, 2015 was the Year of the Woman in soccer. The USA not only regained theWomen’s World Cup title that had eluded it for 16 years, but the ’15ers did so in the most spectacular manner possible, beating Japan, 5-2, in a game it led, 4-0, after 16 minutes […]
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Asian champion Australia learns lesson in loss to Jordan
Asian champion Australia fell into second place behind Jordan in its World Cup qualifying group with a surprise 2-0 loss to Jordan. Star midfielder Massimo Luongosaid the match was a massive learning curve for the Socceroos. “The counterattack is a bit dangerous for us,” Luongo said of the plays that led to goals by Hasan […]
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Offseason: NWSL Thorns send five players on loan overseas
The Portland Thorns loaned defenders Steph Catley (Melbourne City FC), Kendall Johnson (Western Sydney Wanderers) andClare Polkinghorne (Brisbane Roar) to clubs in the Australian W-League, and midfielders Lianne Sanderson to ApollonLimassol in Cyprus and Mana Shim to Iga Kunoichi FC in Japan. Catley and Polkinghorne are both Australians while Johnson returns to theWanderers for […]
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Portland sends Betos on loan to Sydney FC
Portland Thorns FC has loaned 2015 NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year Michelle Betos to Sydney FC of the Australian W-League for the 2015-16 season. Australia isa popular offseason destination for American players seeking to extend their seasons and make more more money playing soccer. Four other 2015 all-league selections — Best XI pick Lauren Barnes […]
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What They're Saying: Abby Wambach
“Part of what we were able to accomplish this summer was empowering women. What the Australian women are doing is they’re empowering themselves and they’re empowering the next generation of womencoming behind them to stand up and speak up for what is right and what they think that they deserve. We did this many, many […]
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Haiti replaces Australia as U.S. opponent on Victory Tour
The USA will face Haiti in a pair of international women’s matches Sept. 17 in Detroit and Sept. 20 in Birmingham, Alabama. Haiti replaces Australia, which had to pull out of the Victory Tour seriesbecause of a soccer labor dispute. Each match has sold more than 31,000 tickets. A dispute between Professional Footballers Australia and […]
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USA-Australia women's matches 'looking very unlikely'
A dispute between Professional Footballers Australia and Football Federation Australia reached the boiling point as members of the Australian women’s national team, quarterfinalist at the 2015 Women’sWorld Cup, went on strike three days before the Matildas were set to leave for the USA to face the U.S. world champions Sept. 17 in Detroit and Sept. […]
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U.S. women set to face Australia twice in September
The USA will face Australia in a rematch of their 2015 Women’s World Cup opener when it hosts the Matildas in their third and fourth matches on their post-Women’s World Cup tour Sept. 17 at Ford Fieldin Detroit and Sept. 20 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The USA won, 3-1, on two goals from […]
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NWSL Weekend: Houston and Seattle draw record crowds
No U.S. world champions played over the weekend, but two teams, the Houston Dash and Seattle Reign, drew record crowds of 13,025 and 5,778, respectively, for their first home games since the USA wonthe Women’s World Cup. NWSL, Week 13 Results: Thursday, July 9 Boston 2 FC Kansas City 3. 1 FCKC — Erika Tymrak […]