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Only ten months after the first ball was kicked in a top-tier professional soccer league since 1984 a class action suit was filed against Major League Soccer. Fraser v. Major League Soccer, L.L.C., 284 F.3d 47 (1st Cir. 2002). One author called this case a rite of passage for the new league.

The members of the U.S. Women's National Team didn't even have 24 hours to celebrate their CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament Championship before they received some very bad news on Monday morning. That news amounted to what would be a pink slip for most of us. The WPS (Women's Professional Soccer (league)) announced Monday morning, they [.

After working USSF to be sanctioned for 2012 despite not meeting the requisite requirements, the Women's Professional Soccer League (WPS) suspended operations today for the 2012 season.

The main culprit per league messaging: the mounting legal bills of attempting to finally close the Dan Borislow ownership situation.

Don't be misled, people. Despite Marco Borriello's innovative approach to legwear, Roma's Christmas party was not fancy dress. Luckily, other players performed marginally better in the fash stakes, as you can see here. Image via tumblr.

The party spirit has certainly overwhelmed Marco Borriello in this photo, and we must confess to spending a little too much time practicing for our own 'do this week, too.

Images: wps.com, AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE.

The future of the Women's Professional Soccer league (WPS) has been thrown into doubt yet again after the termination of the majicJacks franchise. The WPS, which comprised six teams prior to the 'Jacks expulsion, was already operating under a one year waiver of the US Soccer rule that a league must have a minimum of eight teams to be recognised.

Women's soccer in America has encountered another setback. The top-tier female league in the United States, Women's Professional Soccer, is facing a loss of sanctioning by the U.S. Soccer Federation as a Division I league. Entering its fourth season, WPS "terminated" its Florida franchise, magicJack, bringing the number of teams down from six to five in early November.

$2 million for a Summer of Soccer in 1960: several decades before Soccer United Marketing and others figured out the value of bringing Europe's best teams to play in North America during their summer breaks, New Yorker Bill Cox had already given it quite a shot with the International Soccer League.

Steven Goff of the Washington Post writes of the unique American ties that the staff of the Iran national team share.
During a recent lunch hour in Tehran, Carlos Queiroz, head coach of Iran's national soccer team, turned to his assistants and asked: "What do we all have in common?"
Omid Namazi knew the answer right away.

Their Words Last year we were disappointed in our performance in Champions League, maybe even a little bit embarrassed. It was definitely a goal we had set for ourselves that we wanted to get better as we came back into it. Seattle coach Sigi Schmid. Other Sources Garber talks schedule as Crew kick off "Goal 10K" initiative - from MLSsoccer.

Fox Soccer may have lost the rights to MLS for 2012, but the Fox family of networks is showing a willingness to throw its weight behind soccer in other ways. According to a press release from Wednesday afternoon, Fox will air four EPL matches on its broadcast network during the NFL season. The network will pair three EPL games with stand alone NFL games and show a fourth game on Superbowl Sunday.

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First spotted on The Offside Rules.

Saturday

- Speaking from experience, there's nothing special about Modelo Especial. Except for Clint Dempsey's cut-short cameo in the above advert. You can try your virtual luck against the Fulham/USMNT player too.

For once they are excited about something other than sleeve tattoos and sticking it to the man!

Ahhh, the magic of MLS. The alchemy of the United States' professional soccer league remains an elusive beast. While most observers would agree that the league's play has improved dramatically during its existence (one could argue that it's the equivalent of the Mexican league though admittedly it remains a tenuous argument and really few defenders in the MLS meg opposing forwards in their own defensive third so maybe the MLS still has a way to go), its skill level remains, well frequently uninspiring.

*Staff Writer Phil Collin has the Galaxy-Columbus Crew game preview. The game is live at 7:30 p.m. on Prime.

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*In the wake of the ratings success of the World Cup final, Los Angeles-based Fox Soccer Channel has added to its schedule tonight's WPS game between Abby Wambach's magicJack and the Western New York Flash, which is based in the Hermosa Beach resident's home town of Rochester.

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The article is a little bit of this, that, and everything from SBTN - some highlights and some low lights - intended for people with an interest in analytics but not necessarily expertise in soccer.

Today following many issues dealing with magicJack owner Dan Borislow, theWomen's Professional Soccer league has released an official statement regarding the recent sanctions imposed on the former Washington Freedom franchise, now called magicJack.
WPS OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 14, 2011) -Warning the owner of the magicJack women's soccer club that it will not tolerate his contractual failures and disparaging statements, Women's Professional Soccer took action to ensure the team can meet obligations.

Since being sold to Dan Borislow and turned into one of the sorriest excuses of a "professional sports franchise" in recent American sports history, the once proud Washington Freedom are now the...
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MagicJack remain undefeated as they defeated the Atlanta Beat 2-0 in a Women's Professional Soccer League game played Sunday at FAU Soccer Field.

The magicJack outshot Atlanta 17-1, including putting 10 shots on goal and having the edge 6-0 on corner kicks.
Pressure was applied early by magicJack with Masar scoring at the 23-minute mark from inside five yards on an assist from Lindsay Tarpley.

Soccer America's Ridge Mahoney writes of the growth of the game in the United States.
Something Landon Donovan said in a February interview got me to thinking about what effect the U.S. team's performance in the 2010 World Cup might have on MLS.
Despite strong World Cup TV ratings, MLS numbers haven't changed.

So a pretty important event happened recently which is pretty central to the topics that this blog addresses. Accordingly I'll blow the dust off my blogging keyboard and blog about it.
That's right, the Western New York Flash played its' first home game in Rochester in the Womens Professional Soccer league.

[Editor's Note: Another fine fanpost, read up folks]

"Does the Chooch that plays for the Unions really wear number 51 too?"
- 63 year old coworker (4/16/11)

In just two years, people who honestly had no idea there was a professional soccer league in the United States have started asking questions about the Philadelphia Union (like the one above).

J. Santacaterina, E. Weber, M. WeissenhoferThe Chicago Red Stars are joining the Women's Premier Soccer League for the 2011 season. The Red Stars played during the Women's Professional Soccer league's 2009 and 2010 seasons, and the organization elected to take a hiatus from WPS to shore up its investment group.

I get a lot of emails and comments from people that want help getting onto an MLS team.

I have no idea what to do.

but I did a tiny bit of research and found this:

Most teams will want you (or more likely your agent) to send them your soccer resume along with some video.

I get a lot of emails and comments from people that want help getting onto an MLS team.

I have no idea what to do.

but I did a tiny bit of research and found this:

Most teams will want you (or more likely your agent) to send them your soccer resume along with some video.

This week we start with MLS Miami expansion news as ESPN is reporting that MLS to Miami might be closer than we thought.

Talk is heating up that Beckham will, when his contract expires after this season, execute the clause in his contract that allows him to purchase an MLS expansion team, and that Miami is the best bet.

Imagine an alternative reality where the USA victory over England in the 1950 World Cup was not only noticed by the general public, it sparked a soccer boom in the United States.

In this reality, the top US professional soccer league, second in popularity only to American football, not only follows the FIFA international calendar, it regularly develops, maintains and retains world class talent.

Si, the title is a little dramatic, Burrito admit that. Pero, the way the United States Soccer Federation has handled this Division 2 matter kind of makes Burrito wonder if they really want NASL to succeed? Burrito listen to teleconference while playing with chew toy and Burrito was the first to cry bloody murder (Well, bark bloody murder) when USSF President, Sunil Gulati said the 5 U.

NASL Required to Fulfill Certain Requirements to Obtain Full Sanctioning Beyond 2011
CHICAGO (Feb. 12, 2011) – The U.S. Soccer Board of Directors provisionally sanctioned the North American Soccer League (NASL) to operate a Division 2 men's outdoor professional soccer league in the United States.

Turkey's National Football Team will take on South Korea in a friendly game on Wednesday.
The game will take place at Avni Aker Stadium in Trabzon.
The match will start at 20:00 local time(13:00,ET)
Kanal D,will broadcast the match in Turkey..

This week USL PRO continued its development as a USSF minor league by releasing its playoff schedule. Last week it had released a season schedule and division format outlining how its clubs would compete in its first year of existence as USL PRO.

The playoffs will consist of three rounds, with the top three seeds from the American and National Divisions and the top two seeds from the International Division making the playoffs.

Just this week, Brazilian player Marta was awarded the FIFA Player of the Year award for the 5th consecutive year. As the soccer's number one female athlete, her career is still without obstacles.
After joining the Women's Professional Soccer league from Sweden, her club the L.A. Sol folded after one season.

The amazing Marta won her fifth consecutive FIFA player of the year award Monday, ahead of Germany's Fatmire Bajramaj and Birgit Prinz.

Hosted at the Zurich Kongresshaus, the evening's FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala raised the curtain on the new decade in style. Attracting the cream of the soccer world, who had come to pay tribute to the leading players and coaches of 2010, the event reached its long-awaited climax with the award of the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or, a fusion of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and France Football magazine's Ballon d'Or.

"Too many tweets make a tw*t" On football's new media world order is a post from: Just Football

Remember The Jetsons? How it was considered a realistic representation of the future, how we all thought the future would involve driving around in hover cars with robot cleaners to do the dishes?