To say that the end of the 2009 Womens Professional Soccer season was a disappointment for the Boston Breakers would be a huge understatement. A couple of unfortunate breaks and bad bounces held the team just one point away from securing the fourth and final playoff spot.
The missing element last year [...]
When Women’s Professional Soccer officially announced that the Los Angeles Sol would discontinue operations, it left the league, players, and coaches in shock. It also left several Sol players with no place to play and forced WPS to hold a Dispersal Draft for the rest of the teams in the league to pick players from [...]
Hours before the Los Angeles Sol made the official announcement, news of the team’s disbandment spread like wildfire. It also drew speculation that Womens Professional Soccer was in dire straits. How could one of the most recognized teams in the league that had the best player in the world in Brazilian international Marta all the [...]
Just minutes after the Boston Breakers selected Lauren Cheney Friday morning with the No. 2 overall pick in the WPS Draft, the former UCLA forward said she doesn’t feel any pressure at all to perform at next level.
“I’m really excited. It’s definitely a little overwhelming right now, but I’m so excited,” Cheney said via cell [...]
To say that Jennifer Nobis is excited about the upcoming Womens Professional Soccer season is a huge understatement.
The Boston Breakers forward was the first member of the team to arrive in Boston to prepare for the upcoming campaign. And it actually seems as if Nobis’ 2009 season never ended. Not long after Boston’s WPS season [...]
Leslie Osborne had just returned to her Germany apartment, fresh off a practice in near freezing temperatures. After a three-hour practice and despite the fact that it was nearing 11 p.m., Osborne was still full of energy, knowing that one day prior she had signed a contract to play for the Boston Breakers in 2010. [...]
The offseason around the Women’s Professional Soccer league has been active and exciting, with expansion teams in Philadelphia and Atlanta populating their rosters while the league’s first free agent class strives to find new homes. To talk about all the movement, I welcome back to the show Jeff Kassouf from The Equalizer. Jeff [...]
Tony DiCicco hasn’t had too much of a vacation since the end of the 2009 Womens Professional Soccer season. The Boston Breakers head coach went to Finland days after the WPS regular season ended in August for the Women’s Euro 2009, which ran through Sept. 10. Five days later, the WPS held its expansion draft [...]
On Tuesday, Women’s Professional Soccer held a rather controversial expansion draft, taking the league from seven to nine teams. The controversy stemmed from the league’s late decision to keep protection lists secret. Equalizer Soccer’s Jeff Kassouf joined host Richard Farley and WSR’s women’s soccer expert Ryan Wood in talking about that decision, the [...]
The Boston Breakers lost two players in today’s Women’s Professional Soccer Expansion Draft. The Atlanta Beat chose six players, while the Philadelphia Independence took seven. The Breakers lost forward Kelly Schmedes and defender Sue Weber both to the Philadelphia Independence. The two new teams were allowed to draft players that were left unprotected by all seven teams in [...]
