[Translate] Hope Solo Hope Solo has found her bliss. In an epic press conference held on Thursday, Hope Solo, U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Goalkeeper, Olympic Gold Metalist, and new star of Seattle’s team called Seattle Reign FC on the National Women’s Soccer League , talked about her new job and mentioned her new marriage. Here’s some highlights of a press conference that The Equalizer blog did a great job of picking up: You get a chance to play in your hometown yet again. It’s kind of cool for a professional...
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[Translate] The National Women’s Soccer League’s launching this year, and from preliminary appearances, it has the makings of a successful sports organization, and mostly for one reason: it has the financial backing and moral support of U.S. Soccer. U.S. Soccer is subsidizing the salaries of of up to 24 U.S. Women’s National Team players like Hope Solo of The Seattle Reign FC or Alex Morgan of the Portland Thorns FC. Meanwhile the Canadian Soccer Association will back the salaries of up to 16 Canadian stars. It’s...
[Translate] A new bit of bad news, the 2012 Women’s Professional Soccer season has been terminated. In fact, the news is so new, the WPS website webmaster didn’t get the memo, because the ad in your face reads “2012 WPS Tickets Now On Sale.” But one click on the link with the title “news” reveals this: Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) announced today that its Board of Governors has voted to suspend the 2012 season to permit the League to focus on the resolution of certain pending legal...
[Translate] Carli Lloyd Congratulations to our US Women’s Soccer Team, which earned qualification for the London Olympic games in fine fashion over the weekend. The contest that sealed the deal was the Friday night 3-0 win over Costa Rica, and you can thank super star (no, let’s get that title right) Super Star GoalKeeper Hope Solo for that win, and because the Costa Ricans came in and made such a game of it, that it was closer than the score indicated, and caused Solo to make great saves just to seal the deal. Alex...
[Translate] Congratulations to the Stanford Cardinal Women’s Soccer Team, which beat the Oklahoma State Women’s Soccer Team (called the Cowgirls) 2-1 in Elite Eight play at Stanford’s Cagan Stadium Friday night. Show’s you what happens when players have to skip the traditional home-cooked Thanksgiving meal and stick around for a big game. They take all that pent-up desire for Turkey and take it out on the opponent. Here’s the postgame interviews, courtesy of Stanford: Now, the Stanford Cardinal continue...
