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Feb 21
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 …
Feb 19
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 …
Feb 12
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 …
Feb 07
‘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 …
Feb 05
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 …
Jan 31
Women’s pro soccer: How to make it stick this time around
NFL. MLB. NBA. PGA. NHL. MLS. Most kids in the U.S. could tell you what each of these three-letter acronyms stands for. These leagues are what they grew up with, some more than others, but each permeating awareness enough for them to know it’s there. What’s more. Many young boys in the U.S. grow up …
Jan 29
Women’s Professional Soccer: Episode III, Return of the League
Welcome to You Play Like A Girl, a blog about women’s soccer. I’m going to be covering all sides of women’s soccer, and focusing a lot on the new and upcoming women’s professional soccer league in the United States, the NWSL! Most people in the U.S. wouldn’t believe that soccer is in fact the most …
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