[WPS] Four Women’s Professional Soccer teams announced their home openers for the first two weeks of the 2011 season. The 2011 season will kick offwith its first game on April 9 when the Atlanta Beat hosts the Boston Breakers at KSU Soccer Stadium. The opening game of the 2011 television schedule on Fox Soccer Channel […]
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Women's league cuts back schedule
[WPS] Women’s Professional Soccer will play an 18-game schedule in 2011 and shorten the length of the season, beginning the weekend of April 9-10 andconcluding with its championship game the weekend of Aug. 27-28. It will also take off two weeks for the Women’s World Cup, which will be played June 26-July 17 in Germany. […]
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Milbrett: women's pro leagues 'disrespected'
Longtime U.S. international Tiffeny Milbrett, whose pro career dates back to WUSA, knows better than anyone the problems facing women’s pro soccer, whichdied in the Bay Area — and the West Coast for that matter — on Tuesday when WPS champion FC Gold Pride folded. “It is so disrespected and completely not valued,” Milbrett said […]
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FC Gold Pride folds, Chicago in limbo
[WPS] Women’s Professional Soccer will move forward with a minimum of six teams, but champion FC Gold Pride has folded, and the Chicago Red Stars have untilDec. 15 to secure funding for the 2011 season. Atlanta, Boston, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington, which was in danger of folding, will return in 2011, while an expansion […]
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What They're Saying
“They had an incredible run, and it’s a terrible blow for Bay Area fans and the league’s sponsors and players, but the league is bigger than one team. The history of new leagues is that teams comeand go.” — Women’s Professional Soccer CEO Anne-Marie Eileraas — prefacing that “nothing’s official yet” — on 2010 champion […]
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Two WPS teams in desperate shape
Ilisa Kessler, general manager of the WPS champion FC Gold Pride, says “it’s a do or die week for us,” while Washington Freedom president Mark Washo told the Washington Post, “We’re approaching the 90th [minute], hoping for extra time.” Despite its last-to-first season, FC Gold Pride’s average attendance dropped about 20 percent from 2009.
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U.S. women put aside WPS concerns with another big win
[WOMEN’S WORLD CUP QUALIFYING] The U.S. women’s national team put aside uncertainty about the future of several Women’s Professional Soccer teams to defeatCosta Rica, 4-0, to win Group A at Concacaf Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament with its third straight shutout on Monday night in Cancun, Mexico. Abby Wambach scored in her third straight game […]
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Gabarra resigns as Washington head coach
[WPS] Jim Gabarra, the head coach of the Washington Freedom dating back to its three years in the WUSA, has resigned hisposition with the Freedom following its first-round exit from the WPS playoffs for the second year in a row. Gabarra began his career as the head coach of Freedom in August 2000 andcoached it […]
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Marta magic leads to Gold Pride title win
[WPS] FC Gold Pride won the WPS title with a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Independence on Sunday before a crowd of 5,288 in Hayward, Calif. ChristineSinclair scored twice while Marta demonstrated why she’s considered the world’s best women’s player. The Brazilian looked dangerous whenever she got the ball, helped set upboth of Sinclair’s goals, […]
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Flash owner granted expansion franchise
[WPS] Women’s Professional Soccer has granted an expansion franchise to Joe Sahlen, owner of the W-League championBuffalo Flash, in Western New York for the 2011 season. The Flash played its W-League games at Canisius College in Buffalo, but the WPS team whose name has yet to be confirmed will playits games at the 4,000-seat Niagara […]