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 Kristen and Samantha Mewis played last year in the U-17 World Cup, they became the first sibling duo to play for a U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. The sisters enjoyed tremendous success with the U-17 squad, which finished second at the 2008 World Cup in New Zealand.
One year later, the dynamic duo returns, hoping [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

The Boston Breakers will look back on their 2009 Women’s Professional Soccer season and ask a lot of what-ifs, trying to figure out why a team loaded with talent finished fifth in the seven-team league, particularly after such a strong start. Sunday’s 2-1 loss at home to the Los Angeles Sol summarized the last four [...]

Finally, the ball bounced the right way for the Boston Breakers. An Angela Hucles goal in the 35th minute, off a volley from Kristine Lilly, held up to give Boston a 1-0 win, and the Washington Freedom rallied to tie their game in stoppage time against Sky Blue FC. The combination of [...]

For one reason or another, the Boston Breakers have not figured out Sky Blue FC. The New Jersey-based club has wreaked havoc on Boston, handing the now third-place Breakers two one-goal losses, the most recent coming last Saturday. The two teams meet up Sunday night (July 12) at Harvard Stadium.
“They just have a mentality to [...]

A 1-0 loss Saturday to Sky Blue FC, c0upled with a 1-0 St. Louis Athletica victory over FC Gold Pride, sends the Boston Breakers from second to third place with seven games remaining on their WPS schedule. The Breakers (5-5-3, 18 points) trail Athletica (6-5-2) by two points and lead the fourth-place Washington Freedom (4-6-4) [...]

A brutal stretch of four games in 11 days could prove exhausting to any team. But for the Breakers remained fit and focused enough to come out of it on a positive note. Wednesday night, newly appointed starting keeper Alli Lipsher stopped five shots to earn her second shutout in as [...]