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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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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 …

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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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