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Women's Professional Soccer League: Freedom arrive for camp at Dodgertown (St. Lucie News Tribune)

March 11, 2010

VERO BEACH — The Washington Freedom women’s professional soccer team arrived Monday afternoon for its six-day training session at historic Dodgertown.The Freedom is one of nine teams in the second-year Women’s Professional Soccer league. The team will hold two practices sessions daily at the former Dodgers’ spring training complex, and will host the Chicago Red Stars in a 7 p.m. Friday ...

Women’s Soccer League Stays Optimistic (New York Times)

March 11, 2010

Women’s Professional Soccer, which added two teams but lost another during a busy winter, is back for a second season.

Looking For The Worlds Biggest Soccer Fan (Scoop.co.nz)

March 11, 2010

The World’s Biggest Game Is Looking For The Worlds Biggest Fan. Budweiser, official sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is looking for soccer fans from around the world to send to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa to be part of Bud House.

Buehler helps U.S. women's soccer win Algarve Cup (Palo Alto Weekly)

March 11, 2010

==BI Wiggins named to U.S. national team== The world's top-ranked United States national women's soccer team, with Stanford grad Rachel Buehler leading the defense, beat world No. 2 Germany, 3-2, Wednesday to win its seventh Algarve Cup and its first in two years. U.S. coach Pia Sundhage praised the Americans' defense. The U.S. outscored its opponents by a 9-3 margin in the four contests. by ...

W. Soccer. FSU Welcomes Sky Blue FC (Florida State Seminoles)

March 11, 2010

Sky Blue FC, the 2009 defending Women's Professional Soccer league champions, are coming to Tallahassee. The team from New York/New Jersey will train for two weeks in Tallahassee on the campus of Florida State University at the Seminole Soccer Complex beginning Wednesday, March 10.

U.S. women win soccer's Algarve Cup for 7th time (Honolulu Advertiser)

March 11, 2010

The United States beat Germany, 3-2, yesterday at Faro, Portugal to capture the women's Algarve Cup for the seventh time. Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer fumbled the ball in the 70th minute and Lauren Cheney tapped it in for a 3-1 lead.

Soccer-Four referees arrested in China match-fixing scandal (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News)

March 11, 2010

Four top Chinese referees, including one former World Cup and one current international official, have been taken for questioning by police investigating match-fixing in Chinese soccer, state media reported on Monday.

South Africa : Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness (AllAfrica.com)

March 11, 2010

Cape Town — While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women's Day celebration at Cape Town's International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness.

ESPN goes British for World Cup (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

March 11, 2010

ESPN's World Cup telecasts will have a British accent. Adrian Healey, Derek Rae and Ian Darke have been hired by ESPN for its U.S. broadcasts at this year's World Cup and will join Martin Tyler to give the network British play-by-play announcers for all 64 games beginning June 11. Healey, who is English, called matches for ESPN at the 2006 World Cup and 2007 Women's World Cup, and has...