Amidst all the hand-wringing about equal pay and equal opportunities in the women's game, it's important to remember some of the financial shenanigans from male footballers
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In praise of Sarah Bouhaddi, Lyon’s penalty-scoring goalkeeper
The birth of Marta
This day in football history (Marta/Facebook) On 19 February 1986, five-time World Player of the Year Marta was born in Dois Riachos, Brazil. A forward, she started her career at the age of 14 with Vasco da Gama, but the women’s team folded after her second season there, prompting her 2002 move to Belo Horizonte to …
When Women’s Professional Soccer suspended — then ended — its season
This day in football history On 30 January 2012, three-year old women’s league WPS announced the suspension of its fourth season, which, as it turned out, was never played. The USA’s second attempt at a top flight women’s league—Women’s Professional Soccer—started play in 2009 with seven teams. The Washington Freedom and Boston Breakers were the only …
The selective defense of American soccer leagues
MLS and the NWSL have a lot in common, but this often goes overlooked (NWSL/Twitter) You might not know it from the mainstream media coverage, but there’s actually more than one top-flight soccer league in America. Of course there’s MLS, but there’s also the National Women’s Soccer League. And although the NWSL is pushed aside …
When college soccer became a contact sport
This day in football history On 5 November 2009, top-seeded Brigham Young University defeated fourth seed New Mexico 1–0 in the semifinals of the Mountain West Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament. The match made international headlines because of the actions of New Mexico defender Elizabeth Lambert. After BYU took a 1–0 lead with a 31st-minute header from …
For how long must America’s women prop up the men’s national team?
The women have been killing the men in terms of attendance recently Some guys. Image via US Soccer/Facebook It has been a bad year for American experiments. The nation’s polity is now debating the meaning of “locker room talk,” and if all goes well it might recover. The status of the American experiment with men’s …
The Mixxed Zone podcast
The wild world of WoSo Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Google Play • RSS Women’s soccer, especially NWSL and USWNT, hosted by Jen Cooper. Get an email every time we publish a new episode. Scroll down to listen. Explore our podcasts December 13, 2016 https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/HWL4693619618?selected=HWL1399323645 Jen and Richard discuss the possibilities of NWSL expansion — where it should/could happen, what the time …
A brief history of Jean-Michel Aulas thirsting after Alex Morgan on Twitter
How to talk to a woman wearing headphones, women’s soccer edition 1. The nicest thing I can say about Olympique Lyonnais owner Jean-Michel Aulas’ history of sending unsolicited tweets in the direction of U.S. forward Alex Morgan is that all of his missives are, on a superficial level, inoffensive. You wouldn’t look at the images or …