Women's League Links Launch To World Cup by Beau Dure (Article | USA Today - July 12) Nine months before its expected launch, the U.S. women's soccer league is working out the details: an eighth city, a final list of investors in Chicago, the process for assigning players and its name.more details | go to article
Guest Blogger: Peter Wilt by No Author Listed (Blog Entry | Chicago Tribune - August 24) Very soon, it will be announced that a group of owners are going beyond the "intent" stage and are signing a firm agreement to return professional women's soccer to the United States for the first time since 2003 and to Chicago for the first time ever.more details | go to article
Women's League Delays Its Debut by Tom Timmermann (Article | St. Louis Post Dispatch - September 5) The new women's professional soccer league, which includes a team in St. Louis, has pushed its debut back from 2008 to 2009 to allow for the league to be fully ready and to avoid a conflict with the 2008 Summer Olympics.more details | go to article
U.S. Coach Hopes World Cup Boosts Pro League Prospects by Gary Rose (Profile/Interview | Yahoo - September 14) United States women's soccer coach Greg Ryan admits the quality of the games on display at the World Cup so far will provide a major boost in helping the re-launch of a professional women's soccer league in America.more details | go to article
WUSA Operating On A More Sound Business Model by Jeff Carlisle (Analysis | ESPN - September 16) Ever since Tonya Antonucci took over the effort to revive the WUSA, caution has been the byword. That fact has been reflected in the slow trickle of information to fans and press, as well as in the revamped business plan that aims to address the unrealistic expectations that killed the first incarnation of the league. With the announcement that the new league will delay its launch until the spring of 2009, it appears that the lesson in caution has now been adopted by the WUSA's owners.more details | go to article
The Last Shot For Women’s Pro Soccer by Martin Rogers (Analysis | Yahoo - February 17) At the turn of the millennium, the first incarnation of a fully professional women’s soccer league in the United States began with a wave of publicity, grand expectations and a million reasons why the product would work.more details | go to article
Women’s Soccer Builds A League From The Ground Up by Ken Belson (Analysis | New York Times - July 8) Selling Americans on professional soccer has been tough. Selling them on women’s team sports has been tougher. Selling them on a new women’s soccer league during a deep recession may prove to be the toughest task of all.more details | go to article
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