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| The first game is still about 10 months away, but Women's Professional Soccer has already announced its will expand to at least eight teams in 2010 with the addition of a franchise in Philadelphia. WPS commissioner Tonya Antonucci made the announcement Tuesday in what was a busy month for the league. |
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| Microsoft will sponsor the new MLS team in Seattle. The Seattle Sounders FC will be sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Live 360, the team announced Wednesday. Microsoft will pay a reported $20 million over five years. Microsoft executive Robbie Bach said the growth and global scope of soccer enticed the company to get involved with sponsoring a sports franchise. |
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| The Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), which begins its inaugural season next year with seven teams, is planning to expand to Philadelphia in 2010. Franchises will begin play next April in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. An eighth team could be added for that debut season. |
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| The fault-line between world
soccer's governing body and European law makers threatens to
fracture into a full-blown schism when FIFA president Sepp
Blatter brings his plans to curb the number of foreigners at
clubs to FIFA's annual congress in Sydney next week.
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| In a region not known to coddle second-raters, it is not much fun to be the least distinctive sports franchise in town. But that is the unfortunate position of the Red Bulls. |
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| Marc de Grandpre resigned Wednesday as managing director of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. De Grandpre spent nine years with Red Bull, the parent company of the soccer franchise. He became managing director of the Red Bulls in April 2006. "I am sad to leave the many outstanding people that have been a part of the success and excitement of the Red Bulls," de Grandpre said. |
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| Jozy Altidore?s selection is perhaps the best in the miserable draft history of the Red Bulls franchise, and perhaps the last, best vestige of an otherwise forgettable 15-game Mo Johnston era. |
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| Jozy Altidore?s selection is perhaps the best in the miserable draft history of the Red Bulls franchise, and perhaps the last, best vestige of an otherwise forgettable 15-game Mo Johnston era. |
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| Fans will be given a unique and unprecedented opportunity to vote on the name for the new Seattle MLS team this week. |
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| Former U.S. women's soccer star Julie Foudy is going to serve as a consultant of the New York-New Jersey franchise when the Women's Professional Soccer league debuts in 2009. Foudy laughed when asked if her husband, Ian Sawyers, who will be the coach and general manager, might be able to lure her out of retirement and play in the seven-team league. |
