[2013 IN REVIEW] Christen Press, who led the Swedish Damallsvenskan in scoring with 23 goals for second-place Tyreso, ledall American women with 35 goals in all competitions in 2013. The top five goal scorers all played for the U.S. women’s national team in 2013. Three players who scored 15 or more goalsplayed exclusively abroad: Beverly […]
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Ching picked to manage Houston Dash
[NWSL 2014 COUNTDOWN] Former Houston Dynamo forward Brian Ching, who retired after 12 years in MLS at the end of the 2013season, has been named managing director of the NWSL’s Houston Dash. Ching, 35, will be responsible for the day-to-day business operation and technical side of the club under thesupervision of Dash and Dynamo […]
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Houston enters Dash for 2014 launch
[NWSL] The NWSL confirmed the addition of its first expansion with the announcement that MLS’s Houston Dynamo has launched the Houston Dash, which will begin playin the 2014 season. The Dash will be owned by the Dynamo ownership group and operated by the Dynamo, similar to the arrangement that has been so successful with Thorns […]
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Houston Dynamo will launch women's pro team
[NWSL] The National Women’s Soccer League will have its first expansion team — and second team operated by an MLS club — as the Houston Dynamo will announceThursday that it will proceed with the launch of a NWSL team in 2014. Dynamo president Chris Canetti had tweeted on Saturday that the club would goahead with […]
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Thorns get their man
[NWSL] NWSL champion Portland Thorns FC named two-time WPS Coach of the Year Paul Riley as the club’s head coach forthe 2014 season. The Liverpudlian has been a longtime fixture on the Long Island soccer scene and had turned the Philadelphia Independence into one of the best clubs in WPS, making him a hot commodityas […]
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Goebel-Yanez helps INAC Kobe Leonessa win club title
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Beverly Goebel-Yanez scored on a penalty kick for Japanese club INAC Kobe Leonessa in its 4-2 win overthe Chelsea Ladies in the final of the Mobcast Cup, the unofficial women’s club world championship. Goebel-Yanez, who will join the NWSL’s SeattleReign FC next season, had scored for INAC Kobe Leonessa in its 3-0 win […]
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Cone leaves Thorns in 'lifestyle' move
[NWSL] Former Olympic champion Cindy Parlow Cone, who coached Portland Thorns FC to the first NWSL title in 2013, resignedher position with the club to spend more time with her husband. A two-time Olympic gold medalist and winner of the 1999 Women’s World Cup with the USA, Cone was hired as the firsthead coach in […]
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Bayern's Hagen among 31 players called into camp
[USA WOMEN] Bayern Munich star Sarah Hagen earned her first official call-up for the U.S. women’s national team, which isheaded to a two-week season-ending camp beginning Dec. 3 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center in Carson, Calif. U.S. coach Tom Sermannihas called up 31 players for the camp, including Amy Rodriguez, who makes her return […]
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Sky Blue-Red Bull talks off, Houston tests market
[NWSL] Sky Blue FC CEO Thomas Hofstetter confirmed that talks between the NWSL and MLS’s New York Red Bulls to join forceshave ended without a deal. “Both sides were very eager to make it work,” Hofstetter told reporters on Thursday, “but at the end of the day, we couldn’t get on the samepage.” The success […]
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Seattle's trade for Leroux just the beginning
[NWSL] U.S. national team star Sydney Leroux, who grew up in the Vancouver area, is returning to the Pacific Northwest toplay for the Seattle Reign FC in the biggest trade in the NWSL’s young history and one of several moves Seattle plans on making in its bid to become a title contender. The Reign sentrecently […]