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World Cup fashion winners
by A Glam Slam
posted June 22, 2010 at 4:06pm

For months now, A Glam Slam has shared a wide range of World Cup merchandise for fans. Companies took advantage of the most popular and widely viewed sporting event in the world, creating fashion and accessories to coincide with the games. From sportswear...more

The Anorak: Analyzing week 10 attendance
by All White Kit
posted June 22, 2010 at 3:02pm

It seems like this is the default first sentence for these posts but Week 10 was the second-leastt attended week of the 2010 season with an average of 3,513 turning up to each match. This is now the fourth straight week WPS attendance averages haven’t ...more

Yoko Ono syndrome plagues World Cup
by Womenstake
posted June 21, 2010 at 8:26pm

By Jessica Heaven, Fellow,National Women’s Law Center In a surprise upset on Wednesday, the Spanish national soccer team, ranked second in the world heading into the 2010 World Cup, lost 1–0 to Switzerland in its first game of the tournament. Even m...more

Whatever: A French perspective on French National Team's implosion
by From A Left Wing
posted June 21, 2010 at 8:20pm

I've translated an article by Simone Capelli-Welter, a regular contributor to So Foot. It's a fantastic piece, and in it you can hear an all too familiar frustration with the drama, the hysteria, and the contradictory flows of media discourse on such impl...more

Dear England, This is your National Team
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2010 at 3:04pm

A football team donning the Three Lion’s striking kits took to the pitch this week. They had everything to prove and they knew it. They essentially needed to win their match and were expected to. After a shockingly uninspired first 45 minutes, their m...more

Models poke fun at World Cup WAGS
by A Glam Slam
posted June 21, 2010 at 2:41pm

WAGs have taken center stage at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, almost as much as the players themselves. They've appeared in ads for World Cup merchandise, have their own dedicated websites and have made their presence very well-known at games played thus ...more

Five things learned In WPS week 10
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2010 at 1:36pm

5.) Kelley O’Hara Continues To Be the Rookie of the Year O’Hara’s lone goal in FC Gold Pride’s win on Saturday makes it two goals and two assists in eight games for the 21 year-old. The former Stanford Cardinal has performed admirably in Albertin...more

The Pride continues to lurk: A fan’s reaction
by All White Kit
posted June 20, 2010 at 10:09pm

FCGP Gold Pride fan Kendall Roach was in the stands for FCGP’s debut performance at Pioneer Stadium on Saturday night. She offers her take on the evening’s proceedings. Top of the table FC Gold Pride took on the struggling Boston Breakers thi...more

Well, that's it for Marta's career
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 20, 2010 at 9:37pm

"Aside from that one good pass, she didn't impress me." -My mother on Marta's performance versus Boston Although Kelley O'Hara scored a great goal, Ali Riley should have b...more

Les Bleus Strike
by From A Left Wing
posted June 20, 2010 at 9:36pm

The French National Team players refused to participate in today's practice, and issued the statement below explaining why: With this statement, all players of French National Team, without exception, assert their opposition to the decision taken by the ...more

Anouk Hoogendijk is women’s soccer’s answer to this
by All White Kit
posted June 20, 2010 at 9:33pm

Anouk Hoogendijk is women’s soccer’s answer to this: (That’s Oguchi Onyewu if you didn’t recognize him. Can anyone translate Dutch?) ...more

WPS: Nighttime Notes
by All White Kit
posted June 20, 2010 at 2:56pm

Awaiting the FCGP/Boston final score but those margaritas are calling my name. As John Turnbull says, Atlanta earned their first win in seven years tonight. Tina Ellertson scored the deciding goal in Kennesaw and Chicago couldn’t answer, there...more

A list of WPS’ crazy-depleted rosters this week
by All White Kit
posted June 19, 2010 at 9:12pm

Check it out: Atlanta Unlikely: Carolyn Blank Unavailable: Eniola Aluko, Ramona Bachmann, Johanna Rasmussen, Kia McNeill, Hope Solo Chicago Suspended: Natalie Spilger Unavailable: Kosovare Asllani, Karen Carney, Katie Chapman FCGP Unli...more

On Feeling Cheated: Notes on USA - Slovenia
by From A Left Wing
posted June 19, 2010 at 12:00pm

Sport culture seems to be the one discursive space in which we can declare that we were robbed, that our team was cheated, that the game wasn't fair - and we don't come off as bitter or resentful. This sort of anger - at being kept out of the World Cup ...more

Chicago Red Stars pick up GK Allison Whitworth via trade with Atlanta
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2010 at 10:10pm

The spell of mid-season transactions continues in WPS as it was announced this evening that the Red Stars have traded for Allison Whitworth of the Atlanta Beat. In exchange for the goalkeeper, the Red Stars traded away its 2012 first and fourth round p...more

Notables for a day the World Cup was actually kinda interesting
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2010 at 2:45pm

There was that wonderful Argentina game, Greece’s shocking game-winning goal and Mexico’s jaunt through France into the Group of 16. But most importantly COME ON AMERICA, BEAT SLOVENIA TOMORROW. No real headline today so I guess I’ll start ...more

France does its penance
by From A Left Wing
posted June 18, 2010 at 1:03pm

Just a quick note today: France needed its loss, even more than Mexico needed this win today. They need to absolve themselves of the burden of guilt brought onto the team by Henry's handball, which kept a more deserving Ireland from participating in these...more

A preview of this week’s European World Cup qualifying matches
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2010 at 12:57pm

The boys don’t get to hog all the fun. Some very important games will take place in the next week and a half in the world of women’s soccer. A few European teams could earn their spots in the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup (currently only Australia, ...more

World Cup 2010: South Africa
by Tiffany Weimer
posted June 17, 2010 at 7:59pm

I haven't been able to see all the games because we kind of have our own practices and games, but I wanted to give my two bits on what I have seen. I would love to hear your thoughts on my thoughts… so drop me a line on Facebook or Twitter if you’d l...more

Subrato to César - Riyas Komu, on football and the space between
by From A Left Wing
posted June 17, 2010 at 6:02pm

Check out this lovely interview with Riyas Komu, about work on exhibit right now at Gallery Maskara in Mumbai. The title signals the movement from the local players - the ones you can actually see, live, at home (like Subrata Paul, India's #1 keeper) to t...more

Iranian girls set for youth games after ban
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 17, 2010 at 3:14pm

TEHRAN - Iranian female footballers will take part in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore this August after world football authorities lifted a ban on the wearing of the Islamic head veil, an Iranian official said on Tuesday. "I think this is one of the...more

WPS Week 9
by Pretty Tough
posted June 17, 2010 at 1:49pm

Week 9 held another battle for 1st place as the FC Gold Pride took over Philadelphia, another Boston Breakers loss after Sky Blue FC took home a win on a late goal, and the usual for the Chicago Red Stars as they tied the Washington Freedom, except this t...more

W-League Update
by All White Kit
posted June 17, 2010 at 12:35pm

Great Lakes Division – The Ottawa Fury remain the only perfect team in the W-League. Fury player Jodie Taylor has already scored 5 goals in 3 matches. The rest of the division remains tight witht the Laval Comets in second with 6 points, the Toronto La...more

Traditional vs. new media – Will women’s sports ever get equal coverage?
by Soccer Science
posted June 17, 2010 at 11:42am

Every day, the WPS Director of Communications, Rob Penner (in the pic above with me), sends out the Daily Clips to the league office staff. Today’s clips included a story called, Continued apathy by sports media toward women’s sports a bigger probl...more

Action Replay: Replaying the FIFA 2006 U-20 Women’s World Championship
by All White Kit
posted June 17, 2010 at 11:30am

Hey, did you know that there will actually be two FIFA World Cups occurring this summer? There’s that one I keep hearing about down in South Africa but then there’s the one occurring in Germany in July. It’s the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. T...more

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