WPS may be a bit sleepy but the world of women’s footy soldiers on

By: Melissa | November 20th, 2009

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Not exactly sleepy. WPS is hiring which is pretty impressive considering THIS ECONOMY.

FIFA recently did a women’s football roundup which is worth a read. In short…

* Brazil’s Santos FC – featuring Marta and Cristiane – won the inaugural Copa Libertadores 9-0 over Paraguay’s Universidad Autonoma.

* FFC Frankfurt aren’t doing so well in the Bundesliga this year so they fired their coach! Except the new temp coach isn’t doing much better, apparently.

* Arsenal head coach, Vic Akers, stepped down as head coach this summer to become their General Manager. And Arsenal are on a Champions League tear – the quarterfinals draw was today (anyone notice?) with the tourney resuming in March.

* The Australian W-League regular season is over and one of the worst names in football, the Brisbane Roar, sit on top for the second year in a row (the name always reminds me of that awful Heath Ledger tv show – no, not that one). The semi-final and finals are set for December and I can’t really find info on who is playing who but then again I’m not looking very hard right now.

* World Cup Qualifying is underway in Europe. Little Miss Soccer has the updates. So many countries playing over there just go click the link. I’m not even gonna try to recap that mess.

* And, in the US of Haaay what’s up, the NCAA College Cup third round starts up tonight and the games are on tv! Or rather, on ESPNU. Is that a real tv channel or do you only get that in community college cafeterias? So if you are not an extra on Community (the jury’s still out – good show or bad?), try the online link here. Oh, and Pia called up players for a camp then replaced one and I think I read on twitter somewhere she added a few more. But that info is really a World Cup Blog type post that I’ll get to at some point before the end of time I think.