February 2013 archive

NWSL team highlight series: FC Kansas City

NWSL Team Highlight Series FC Kansas City Head Coach: Vlatko Andonovski Stadium: Shawnee Mission District Stadium Overland Park, Kansas Capacity: 6,150   Team History: FC Kansas City is the first team we’ve highlighted that is new onto the scene of women’s professional soccer.  Sporting Kansas City (formerly the Kansas City Wizards), the men’s side, established …

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NWSL team highlight series: Chicago Red Stars

NWSL Team Highlight Series Chicago Red Stars Head Coach: Rory Dames Stadium: Benedictine University Sports Complex Lisle, Illinois Capacity: 3,000   Team History: One of the founding members of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS), the Red Stars have been around since 2009. Named after the four six-pointed stars on the municipal flag of Chicago, the Red …

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NWSL team highlight series: Boston Breakers

NWSL Team Highlight Series Boston Breakers Head Coach:   Lisa Cole  Stadium: Dilboy Stadium Somerville, Massachusetts Capacity: 2,500   Team History: The Breakers are one of the two remaining franchises (the Washington Spirit, formerly the Freedom being the other) that competed in the  original Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) in the year 2000, then under …

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NWSL website goes live

Yesterday proved to be a big day for women’s professional soccer fans as the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) launched their website in the afternoon. The website, nwslsoccer.com, was announced live from the organization’s twitter page, and has generated a decent amount of user feedback, including over 100 retweets.   The website includes links to the …

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‘Stuff soccer girls say’: A nationwide phenomenon

Have you seen it? Better yet, does it make any sense to you? Unless you play soccer, or better yet are a girl soccer player, this video is probably not funny in the slightest to you. But for us soccer players, this is life in a nutshell. Started as a group of college girls complaining …

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The Beautiful Game

Around the world, soccer is known as el jogo bonito, the beautiful game. There are many reasons for this description: the finesse, the grace, the skill, and the elegance of the sport just a few reasons. But there is something more beautiful than all of that in the game of soccer, or football as it …

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