The Fab Four (Five?) : WPS season 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=2pMliA6kJrc

hahahahahaha


(also, for those you don't know yet, USSF gave conditional sanctioning for WPS 2012.)

eta: no idea how I screwed up the embed. sorry.

It's another paycheck, no?

I know. But the video just made me laugh.

I'm blushing. Didn't even get through half of that. But more power to you, Hope.

The draft is Friday the 13th.

Perfect.

Well season 4 might not happen if Borislow has is doomsday granted

Sorry to chime in all of a sudden, but I wanted to say that I agree that Frauen-Bundesliga should be currently considered the best league in the world: high technical level, serious competition for the first place (teams like 1FFC Turbine Potsdam, 1FFC Frankfurt, FCR Duisburg, are all legitimate competitors, and there are quite good "second rank" teams), a right number of teams, big name players from Europe and the world, one of the best media-coverages in the women's football (and that last thing is very important in my opinion). I am sorry but I guess that, despite it sports a lot of the best players in the world, a WPS with 5 teams just can't compete with Bundesliga in terms of overall quality of the league and interest of the competition.

Division 1 Féminine (french league) is also quite good, although the quality of media-coverage is really quite poor...

In the end, when you talk about good interesting leagues to watch, don't totally discount Nadeshiko L-league in Japan: it has just japanese players in it (apart from INAC south-korean nationals), but it's a really enjoyable league, with at least 4-5 very decent teams on 10, and, after WWC 2011, the level of the competition and the interest by media and audiences has rised up a lot, making it a quite good show in my opinion. Not the best women's league in the world for sure, but a more than decent league, compared to what we actually see around in the world...

Things are about to get even more ridiculous.

How exactly?

(meaning two things: 1) I am not living in USA, so I am actually not up-to-date about what's exactly happening; 2) things can really get more ridiculous than this? )

WPS & mJ reached an agreement - suit has been dropped - to let mJ play as a WPS exhibition team for 2012 and 2013, seven or so games a year it sounds like. Abby, Hope, etc. sound slated to continue playing for mJ.

Basically, mJ = Harlem Globetrotters of women's soccer

Well, I can take the FA WSL example, the current format has 8 teams but four are good enough, 2 are decent/ok and 2 are poor. I perosnally would reduce it to 6 teams and have them to play each other 4 times ie 24 games.
I mean finding 120 international level players is not easy in here

Of course the traditional format is more attractive but less competitive.
And I find it unbelievablethat Borislow is allowed to stay around despite being a total trouduc .

So big Dan is the winner !
So it's not like in those american movies when the good guy always win in the end...the bad guy won, that's bad.

I for one will miss the occasional petty bickering in these parts about what's the world's best league. And I agree with one little birdy who tweeted that the most important thing now is to get Melis back to Sweden, pronto. They should do an airlift and call it Operation Cow'sArse/Banjo, that has a nice whimsical military ring to it. (Hoping that saying these things doesn't unleash The Wrath of Kool-aide.)

But seriously, what a bummer. And, as so many others have noted, their timing of the announcement was peculiar at best. Hope it doesn't turn out to be positively harmful for the players, who are quite justified in feeling massively screwed over, as far as I can tell.

naw, you're good. my earlier pissy statement wasn't aimed at anyone here. I really hope players are able to find something b/f midnight. otoh, I might not show up around here for a while after today. I'm majorly bummed.

Jennifer Nobis, American playing for Damallsvensk club Piteå, says in this article that she is disappointed but not surprised about WPS. She says that in the US it's all about money and not passion for the game. She suggests that Americans who want to see how to run a league take a look at Germany's and Sweden's leagues, and see how they do it.

The reporter, either taken slightly aback or feeling slightly gleeful, observes that going around learning from other countries does not seem like 'the american way'. Nobis gets a little sarky, saying that no, because we are always right and we like to do things our own way, so it will never happen, but maybe we won't ever have a league either. And then she laughed, bitterly.

I notice that she's still saying 'we' as opposed to 'they' when she speaks of Americans. I give it, mmm, another year before that fixes itself.

One more to agree with you on all points there...

... and with that as well.

I have a couple of vital questions before I get fully behind them: if a person is allergic to horses, do you think that carries over to unicorns? And could I have a kitten instead of a puppy?

Magical? Next you'll be telling me that Santa doesn't exist.

http://www.ourgamemagazine.com/?p=5860

WPS should take notes.