Heather O’Reilly, arguably the most-decorated player in U.S. women’s soccer history and a link for the generation of players who won Women’s World Cups and 1999 and 2015, will end her 15-yearinternational career on Sept. 15 when the USA takes on Thailand in Columbus, Ohio. HAO Titles: 2002: USA (Under-19 Women’s World Championship)2003: Univ. of […]
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W-League folds after 21 seasons
Before there was WUSA or WPS or the NWSL, there was the W-League, which the USL launched in 1995. At its height in 2008, the women’s national amateur league had 48 teams. Seventeen of the 23 playerson the U.S. World Cup championship team played in the W-League. But down to 18 teams in 2015, the […]
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Breaking down the high costs of youth soccer
How much does it cost children to play competitive youth ball in the USA? MONEY’s Paul Keegan and Kate Santichen used aCalifornia family with four soccer-playing boys as a case study. The parents dug out their receipts. They were fully aware of only about half of their out-of-pocket costs — the club’s$8,100-per-year team-membership fees that […]
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'Blessed' Van Hollebeke heads off to medical school
Rachel Van Hollebeke, capped 113 times by the United States and winner of Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012, announced her retirement from soccer so she can begin medical school inher hometown at UC San Diego in the fall. The 30-year-old defender was a starter at the 2011 Women’s World Cup but was a […]
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Road to Vancouver: Brazil's Formiga picked for sixth time
Formiga was picked to play in her sixth Women’s World Cup for Brazil as she was included in Coach Vadao‘s squad forCanada 2015. She has played in 21 games for Brazil in the Women’s World Cup and 24 games in the Olympics, participating in all five tournaments. Formiga was picked to play in her sixth […]
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Twenty for Canada 2015: Brazil's Marta
This will be the fourth Women’s World Cup for Marta, who is still only 29. In Canada, she’ll have a chance to break the all-time Women’s World Cupscoring record she shares with German Birgit Prinz, having already scored 14 goals — three in 2003, seven in 2007 and four in 2011 when Brazil lost to […]
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Twenty for Canada 2015: Spain's Veronica Boquete
(Soccer America begins its countdown to the 2015 Women’s World Cup with the first of 20 profiles of the women to watch in Canada.) Veronica Boquete may be the best player at the Women’s World Cup you’ve never heard of. She doesn’t play for one of the title contenders, and Spain lags behind othermajor European […]
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WPS owner Borislow dies of heart attack
[OBITUARY] Dan Borislow, the controversial owner of franchise MagicJack in defunct Women’s Professional Soccer, diedTuesday night of a heart attack at the age of 52 after playing in a pickup soccer game. Borislow, owner of the telecom product MagicJack and a soccer dad, bought the Washington Freedom in2011 and moved it to Florida, where he […]
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Alex Morgan's Thorns draw at home and away
By Paul Kennedy There should be little doubt who is the biggest draw in the new NWSL. AlexMorgan‘s Portland Thorns drew a crowd of 16,479 fans at Jeld-Wen Field for their home opener, while all three Portland games on the road have been sellouts. Portland drew anoverflow crowd of 5,011 fans at Maryland SoccerPlex for […]
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Sustainability is key to new women's league
By Paul Kennedy In contrast to WUSA and WPS, which burned through millions in startup money and never made it past the third season, the National Women’s Soccer Leagueis starting out slowly. Perhaps too slowly for the likes of many. But NWSL executive director Cheryl Bailey says the goal of the league, managed by U.S. […]