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Admit it, there's nothing more exciting than football drama, and
today's United-Liverpool showdown at Old Trafford has all the ingredients that
scream "Phantom Of The SuarezGate II!" Whether Patrice
Evra and Luis Suarez will be :
a) shaking hands (-20 points),
b) doing the Uruguayan cumbia dance (+10 points) or
c) shoving jalapeños down each other's throats (+40 points) ;
Past statistics favour goals from both sides and hopefully mio dios!
Mano Menezes appears to be under a lot of pressure these days surely it isn't
because he's only the national coach of Brazil, a country with 194 million other
talking heads? Earlier this week, Menezes met up with the U-17 'selecao feminina' (you can call
them Brasil's futbolitas!
Welcome to a slightly late edition of La Liga Lunes (La Liga Monday!)
Over the weekend, the Women's FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Homare Sawa
met up with Barcelona maestro Xavi at the club's training ground. Her team, INAC
Kobe from the Japanese Women's league, played a friendly against Barcelona's female squad
(highlights below).
Welcome to a slightly late edition of La Liga Lunes (La Liga Monday!)
Over the weekend, the Women's FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Homare Sawa
met up with Barcelona maestro Xavi at the club's training ground. Her team, INAC
Kobe from the Japanese Women's league, played a friendly against Barcelona's female squad
(highlights below).
"I'd rather be at Michel Telo's next concert than sit here answering your questions. By the way,
what colour does my hair look like under the light?" - Brazil's Marta at the FIFA Ballon d'Or
earlier last month!
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"I'd rather be at Michel Telo's next concert than sit here answering your questions. By the way,
what colour does my hair look like under the light?" - Brazil's Marta at the FIFA Ballon d'Or
earlier last month!
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Que triste! It isn't a good week for fans of the US Women's Professional Soccer (WPS)
league. The board announced it would be "suspending play" this year due to complex legal issues
involving a former club owner. This matters because some of the world's best female players ply
their trade there including Abby Wambach, Marta, Alex Morgan and
Hope Solo.
When a politician suspends his or her campaign, it effectively means the end of the campaign. Even
if it is restarted, all of the momentum generated has been lost and almost impossible to recover.
Sports league operations are no different, and especially soccer leagues in the USA. So the news
today that Women's Professional Soccer has suspended operations for the 2012 season is very bad.
Germany's DFB Women's Indoor Cup took place over the weekend and as to be expected, FFC
Frankfurt's enthusiastic squad picked up the trophy from the hands of the sad Bayern
Munich girls. Next time, chicas!
But there's a reason behind all of this, of course.
Brazil's U-20 'Selecao feminina' have started preparations for the Olympics in August. Vai vai
vai, meninhas! /Photo by R.Ribeiro
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Through Ryu's Lens - French Division 1 (Women) - Lyon vs Montpellier, Plaine de Jeux de
Gerland
In his first assignment of 2012, Ryu Voelkel found himself in welcome, yet relatively foreign
territory as he shot the women's football match between Lyon and Montpellier.
Forget Lionel Messi, it was all about Homare Sawa's
kimono (traditional Japanese costume) at the FIFA Ballon D'or awards in Zurich last night!
The captain of the Japanese women's team and winner of the FIFA Women's Ballon
d'Or lit up the stage with that outfit which should make her countrymen and women
extremely proud today.
Keeping Neymar at Santos meant compromising all female football?
Europe's giants were getting ready to fight over the signing of the Neymar, the 18-year-old
Brazilian prodigy. However, in November Santos announced that Neymar had signed a contract that
lasted until 2014 and included a 50% pay increase.
The Stanford Cardinal are the newest champions of Division I women's college soccer after defeating
Duke 1-0 in a hard-fought final at KSU Soccer Stadium outside Atlanta. The winning goal was scored
about ten minutes into the second half by Teresa Noyola. Much had been stated about Duke's slow
starts in their previous NCAA Tournament matches, and I think coach Robbie Church must have
communicated to the team that if they did the same against Stanford they would find themselves
behind early.
Stanford and Duke advanced to Sunday's national championship game of the NCAA Women's College Cup
with three-goal victories in both semifinals on Friday night. Stanford defeated Florida State 3-0
in the first match, and Duke ran out 4-1 victors over Wake Forest. This year's College Cup was
located at Kennesaw State University's new soccer-specific stadium, about 30 minutes northwest of
downtown Atlanta.
Stanford, Florida State, Wake Forest, and Duke -- all #1 seeds in the NCAA Division I Women's
Soccer championship tournament -- advanced to the Women's College Cup as semifinalists this
weekend. On Friday night Stanford overcame Oklahoma State 2-1 after extra time to complete an
unbeaten home record by the graduating seniors and continue a 50-match winning streak in Palo Alto.
In a week when FIFA president Sepp Blatter was embroiled in yet another scandal: this time about
race, we report on four of the many controversies that FIFA's leader has been involved in.
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In a week when FIFA president Sepp Blatter was embroiled in yet another
scandal: this time about race, we report on four of the many controversies that FIFA's leader has
been involved in.
There's a lot of things about USA Women's National Team striker Abby Wambach
especially here- that screams "Ellen DeGeneres!" From their wackiness to
similar hairstyles, Abby can easily pass off as Ellen's footballing twin. Yesterday, Abby spoke up
about the Women's World Cup final to Japan en route to this awesome photo shoot she did in
Hollywood, admitting the US Women's team has come a long way from that loss.
In the end, you can't possibly have everything. The selecao feminina
painfully lost out on penalties to Canada a few hours ago, taking home the silver
medal at the Pan American games after the shootout ended 4-3. Sections of the
Brazilian media are calling this a "harsh punishment" but we don't think so.
FELIZ MARTES! The shortlist for the Women's FIFA Ballon d'Or has been
announced and surprise, surprise, three of the names drawn are from the US national team.
The winners, Japan, also have two possible winners in the list, as do France. Abby
Wambach (seen above with a fan), Hope Solo and Aya
Miyama are a few of the key names but all these talented futbolitas are all
winners in their own right.
Palestinian fans of the women's team waved flags and cheered during a Palestine vs Japan
football friendly in Doora yesterday! / via Reuters
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Germany's striker Birgit Prinz has announced she will retire from professional football today.
She is a three time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year, won the World Cup with Germany
twice and the European Championship five times. Viva Birgit! / via Reuters
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Live women's football matches will be broadcast for the first time in France as of next season, the
French Football Federation (FFF) president Noel Le Graet said Thursday after selling the rights to
France Television and Eurosport.
Hope Solo will join Gatorade's powerful promotional arsenal after signing a multiyear marketing
deal with the beverage company.
After the success of the Womens World Cup, the Womens Super League restarted last weekend after
a break, and the early signs seem to be, encouragingly, that the summer tournament in Germany might
have piqued the interest of quite a few in the domestic game in this country. Womens football in
Britain has benefitted significantly over the last couple of years from a £3m investment from the
Football Association, which led to the founding of the Womens Super League.
Hope Solo, Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan have reached an agreement on a marketing deal with Bank of
America
Twitter just Tweeted that the Women's World Cup final scored a new record with 7,196 Tweets per
second. Even U.S. President Barack Obama joined in Tweeting about the game.
Japan captain Homare Sawa celebrating her country's triumph after defeating the United
States on penalties
The intangibles often get overlooked, however, the sheer mental strength Japan showed to just
keep going despite being dominated early on and going down a goal on two occasions was
remarkable.
Japan are the newest World Champions of women's football after defeating the USA 3-1 on penalties
after a 2-2 extra time draw in the Women's World Cup final. It was the best World Cup final that I
have ever seen in either gender, and a fantastic advertisement for the women's version of the game.
It was a just reward for a team devoted to an attractive style of play, and a morale boost for a
country that experienced a horrific natural disaster four months before.
Goalie Hope Solo and forward Abby Wambach have been getting a lot of attention for their play with
the U.S. National Team in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, much of it having to do with winning
games, followed by potential marketing deals and endorsements they might garner.
By Eric Beard
The road has been a long one, but with an absolutely fantastic Women's World Cup coming to a
close there has never been more at stake for the United States and Japan. But perhaps more
importantly, there has never been such potential for the growth (or revival or whatever you want to
call it) of women's football.
"Vampire Diaries" actress Nina Dobrev is joining sports brand Puma in kicking off its second year
of "Project Pink." Puma's year-round effort was launched in 2010 in response to a group of female
soccer athletes who were looking to support breast cancer awareness and research.
By Ulysse Pasquier, writing from Paris
An entire country, in which "World Cup" was still synonymous with "controversy", is
rediscovering football through the Women's World Cup. Reaching the semi finals of the tournament
for the first time in their history, Les Bleues have enchanted France after beating England on
penalties.
The USA-Brazil Women's World Cup quarterfinal match fit all of the archetypes of the American
story: never giving up despite multiple adverse situations, last-minute dramatics, lots of heroes,
and someone named Hope. I felt that Brazil would be the favored team yesterday, and perhaps they
would have won had that early own-goal not occurred.
A Salafi parliamentarian, Waleed al-Tabtabai, has urged the government of Kuwait to prevent the
country's football association from hosting a women's international indoors tournament. "Women
playing football is unacceptable and contrary to human nature and good customs. The government has
to step in and drop the tournament," Kuwait's Al Wasat newspaper quoted him as saying.
By Oliver Sparrow, writing from London.
In the words of my unimpressed girlfriend as she caught me hunched in front of the computer
screen in my darkened front room: "Bloody hell. You must be desperate!"
And in a sense, I was. My girlfriend was disappointed, but I was starting to get football
withdrawal symptoms.
I have not been able to watch any matches in the Women's World Cup in Germany (nobody shows such
sports in South America...), but I have been following on the internet, and was in awe at the
surprising result in the quarterfinals today: the defending champions and hosts, Germany, losing to
Japan!In the other match, France defeated England after penalty kicks, to make it to their first
ever
Brazilian Marta kicks off her day with a photo shoot and interview session at the Sports
Illustrated offices in NYC. Find out how Marta is ready to see her lifelong dreams realized in just
a few short days.
What a goal. Watch Erika's goal agains Equatorial Guinea for the Women's World Cup:
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