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Opening WPS Weekend Announced
Women's Professional Soccer have announced the schedule for their opening weekend with Los Angeles and Washington being the two teams set to square off.
Dec 16, 2008 2:00:15 PM
The inaugural season of Women’s Professional Soccer is set to kick off on March 29th, 2009, according to a press release sent out by the league on Tuesday afternoon.
Five years have gone by since the last professional women’s match took place in the US and the wait is finally over for it to return as on the 29th the Los Angeles Sol and Washington Freedom will open up the first season in WPS history.
“This is an exciting day for the world of soccer and professional sports on the whole,” said WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci. “Announcing such a fantastic line-up of home openers for each of our seven WPS teams highlighted by the WPS Inaugural Match between the Los Angeles Sol and the Washington Freedom at one of the country’s great soccer venues further builds on the anticipation for the 2009 WPS Season. We hope soccer and sports fans alike are marking their calendars to cheer for their teams at the home openers or to watch on Fox Soccer Channel.”
The match between Los Angeles and Washington will be the first WPS match played, with the rest of the teams set to start play the week following. Eight teams in all, the WPS was founded in 2007 on the back of the struggles had by the now defunct Women’s United Soccer Association or WUSA. The league will most likely expand to ten teams in 2010 with Philadelphia and Atlanta joining the league.
-- Shane Evans, Goal.com
Five years have gone by since the last professional women’s match took place in the US and the wait is finally over for it to return as on the 29th the Los Angeles Sol and Washington Freedom will open up the first season in WPS history.
“This is an exciting day for the world of soccer and professional sports on the whole,” said WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci. “Announcing such a fantastic line-up of home openers for each of our seven WPS teams highlighted by the WPS Inaugural Match between the Los Angeles Sol and the Washington Freedom at one of the country’s great soccer venues further builds on the anticipation for the 2009 WPS Season. We hope soccer and sports fans alike are marking their calendars to cheer for their teams at the home openers or to watch on Fox Soccer Channel.”
The match between Los Angeles and Washington will be the first WPS match played, with the rest of the teams set to start play the week following. Eight teams in all, the WPS was founded in 2007 on the back of the struggles had by the now defunct Women’s United Soccer Association or WUSA. The league will most likely expand to ten teams in 2010 with Philadelphia and Atlanta joining the league.
-- Shane Evans, Goal.com
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