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Who am I kidding? If you are checking this blog for news, then you know nothing. Here’s my (second) recap of Thursday’s USWNT v Germany game:
Did you catch the post-game quote sheet? Normally those things are totally booooring but this little gem came from from Hope Solo:
I can’t wait for the World [...]
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Tags: Alex Morgan, Allison Whitworth, Atlanta Beat, Boston Breakers, Chicago Red Stars, FC Gold Pride, FC Indiana, General Draft, Hope Solo, Julianne Sitch, Kozue Ando, Los Angeles Sol, Niki Cross, Pavlina Scasna, Shek Borkowski, Shinobu Ohno, US Women's National Team, W-League, WPS NewsLeslie Osborne is an inspiration
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The official news is supposed to be out today but the fans already know Leslie Osborne will sign with the Boston Breakers after turning down an offer from the Washington Freedom. She also turned down the Red Stars. This is – at the every least – the first publicly known bidding war over [...]
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Today, Sky Who Blue announced they signed free agent Carli Lloyd. Lloyd is from New Jersey and went to Rutgers so pretty much as soon as she became “free,” the rumors were flying that she was headed home perhaps even before she packed up and moved out of Chicago. And the rumormill was [...]
Happy Hondurans Love Wikipedia… and Links!
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(Spotted over at ONTD football)
Angela Hucles retired from professional soccer effective immediately. Coach Tony loses yet another player from his 2009 roster, Pia loses a midfielder for the upcoming friendly against Germany, and Hucles thinks maybe now she’ll try real estate. Of course. Makes perfect sense.
Speaking of, Megan Rapinoe had knee surgery [...]
Something Happened!
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Today was all a-twitter as Philly and ATL got to pick five international players each to stock their rosters. But, assuming similar rules apply from last year’s international draft, both expansion teams really picked five players each with whom they have the exclusive rights to negotiate a contract. Or, they picked five players [...]
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2011 World Cup Qualifying is underway in Europe. The groups are posted here and the recent results are:
Iceland – Estonia 12-0
Armenia – Finland 0-4
Slovakia – Macedonia 9-0
Poland – Ukraine 4-1
Bosnia- Herzegovina – Hungary 0-2
Malta – Spain 0-13
Switzerland – Ireland 2-0
Slovenia – Italy 0-8
UEFA qualifying runs til August of next year. OFC starts in [...]
Meet the league MVP… in 2021
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That is, if WPS lasts that long (crossing fingers).
(Also, meethinks this video is a super low budget homage to this little gem from the not-so-past.)
Category: Chicago Red StarsRed Stars and Fox Soccer Channel serve up a little flip throw in slow mo
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You gotta wait til around minute 2 in the above video to see Natalie Spilger perform a flip-throw throw-in. A what? you say? This thing…
She did it twice during the game. The first time, Fox Soccer Channel gave us the slow motion replay of her acrobatics (sadly, NOT featured in the video [...]
St Louis clinch second place
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…and an automatic bye to the semi-final… August 19… in St Louis. They beat Boston 1-0. Tony DiCicco sat this one out per his one game suspension (…and fine… and community service – will he plant trees?). Tony also apologized (thnx for the heads-up Dustin). So now I guess everyone is [...]
Playoffs. Playoffs? Playoffs!
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who is this guy?
It’s been a busy week in the world of pro, semi-pro, and not-at-all pro women’s soccer so let’s review…
WPSL The final four are set. The semifinals will take place in Long Island (will they throw in some of that famous iced tea?). On August 1st, the Dallas Premier play [...]
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