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On ACL tears…
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Leslie Osborne is out. She tore her ACL last week in training and will no longer play in the Olympics. Heather Mitts tore her ACL just before the last year’s World Cup and had to sit that tournament out. The New York Times recently published an excerpt from a book about the [...]
Category: US Women's National TeamPhiladelphia gets a team
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Big time congratulations are in order to Philadelphia as WPS announced today a Philly team will begin operations for the 2010 season. The newest WPS team’s inaugural season will coincide with the city’s MLS team’s first season and both clubs will likely share the Chester, PA soccer specific stadium. Commissioner Tonya Antonucci does [...]
Category: WPS NewsUSWNT Update – we’re number one (again)!
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A two week training camp for the US Women’s National Team opened at the Home Depot Center this past Monday. Pia Sundhage brought in 27 players to compete for a 20 person roster in preparations for the upcoming Peace Cup games against Australia ( June 15), Brazil (June 17), and Italy (June 19). [...]
Category: US Women's National TeamUSWNT Update – US/Brazil friendlies on tv
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While it looks like the upcoming Peace Cup games in South Korea (June 14-21) won’t be on tv, the July friendlies against Brazil will. On July 13 @7pm CT, the first game will be at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park and shown on ESPN. The second game is July 16 @7pm PT, at Torero [...]
Quick WPS and W-League update
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I think the big question on my mind right now is, what will the W-League look like after the WPS clubs really kick into gear? How many W-League teams will “get promoted” to WPS teams? As I understand it, the Washington Freedom will be reborn into the DC WPS team (and it originated [...]
Tags: Carolina RailHawks, Casey Nogueira, Chicago WPS, Emma Hayes, Nikki Krzysik, Shannon Aitken, Thori Staples Bryan, Vancouver Whitecaps, W-League, Watching the Game, WPS NewsI apologize + W-League
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I had every intention of writing a W-League preview last Thursday, but my friend came over with a bottle of wine instead. And I promise I will update more often. I really am treating this blog as a labor of love so neglect just makes me feel guilty.
To start off, it’s time for [...]
Category: W-LeagueNews!
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The WPS site recently updated its blog with a little bit of news. Firstoff, details on USWNT player allocation process is almost completely sorted. While an official announcement hasn’t been made (and meethinks it won’t until after the Olympics), the general consensus is, the allocation process will contain complete parity between all the [...]
How to watch the game
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The US Women’s national team will take on Australia today in Birmingham, Alabama, 4pm Central Time. This is the second leg of their two-game friendly against the Matildas. We won the first match on April 27th. If you are not in Birmingham, the game will be on Fox Soccer Channel (wow, amazing [...]
Time to give the ladies some love
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April is over so I’d like to take a moment to point out something very important that everyone should be aware of. The Women’s Professional Soccer league will begin play less than year from now. Yup, let the hype machine begin. What hype machine you ask? Honestly, I have no idea [...]
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