Hello, all.

• A recap of WPS’ Week 6 results right here from American Soccer Minute:

• The USSF has announced that the USWNT will be playing Sweden July 17 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. Curses for not being anywhere near Texas, but it’ll be nice to see the WNT in action again this summer.

• Another note on the Sweden friendly: FC Gold Pride and the Philadelphia Independence will be playing at almost exactly the same time. And the six other WPS teams will play the following day. I guess there was simply no better time to schedule the match?

• Here’s Sports Illustrated’s recap of Week 6 in WPS.

• Here’s an interview with Kate Markgraf from the Detroit Free Press regarding the upcoming Germany friendly and being a mother to young twin boys. Think she’ll make the squad?

• Not quite sure why this isn’t on CONCACAF’s website yet but Haiti and Cuba join Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana in advancing to the final stage of Carribean Gold Cup qualifying. No official word on when the final round will take place.

• World Cup qualifying tomorrow and Thursday. Australia takes on Vietnam in the Asian Games and host country China will be opposing South Korea in the opening matches of the tournament that will also be the World Cup qualifying tournament for the AFC. The tournament will run from May 19 to 30 and will be in Chengdu, China. The top three teams will advance to the 2011 World Cup.

• Check out an interesting preview of the tournament from a Chinese perspective.

• On Thursday it’s North Korea v. Thailand and Japan v. Myanmar (wow).

• In Europe, Ukraine hosts Hungary and England will be visiting Malta. Here’s an article from the BBC about the match, and this is from The Guardian.

• There’s also a match going down on Thursday in Getafe. It’s the UEFA Champions League Final between Turbine Potsdam and Olympique Lyonnais. The UEFA site has two features about players from both sides. Here’s an article about Lyon’s outstanding Brazilian holding midfielder Simone. And here’s one on TP’s very-decorated captain Jennifer Zeitz.

That’s all for now.

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