No street parking on the Somerville side of the stadium as it's all restricted to resident permits (except Sundays). Arlington is directly behind the stadium and it's possible that street parking is not restricted (Arlington is generally more lax than Somerville and doesn't have a parking enforcement team). Medford has permit requirements on only certain streets. You could probably park at Tufts and walk over (it's grad weekend there and they don't really enforce parking regulations on weekends/nights). It's about a half mile from the lot on Curtis. You are dealing with 3 cities, with different parking regulations. Somerville requires parking permits on all streets. Medford and Arlington do not. I'd recommend parking behind the stadium in Arlington, though I've never tried that before. As long as it's not posted as a permit required street, you should be okay.
According to her Twitter feed she graduated from Notre Dame on Sunday and is on her way to Boston today.
The gears are turning to create a WPSL-Elite forum. Once that exists, this thread and similar ones (like the one for the Red Stars) will all be moved there.
From the Breakers' Twitter feed: U.S. Women's National Team and Breakers midfielder Heather O'Reilly will be available for selection for our games on 6/20, 6/23, and July 6! They later amended it to say she would only be available for autographs on 6/20.
Breakers have had to forfeit their win against WNY because of an uncleared player (Melissa Henderson apparently). Here's the Breakers response and a link to a story on the forfeit: http://www.bostonbreakerssoccer.com/NEWS/637503.html http://www.allwhitekit.com/?p=9412
More coverage at the Equalizer: Boston Breakers forfeit previous win over WNY Flash Boston Breakers respond to point deduction
Looks like Heather O'Reilly will make her debut on Saturday, June 23rd. She was listed as on the bench for the 6/20 match, though she wasn't supposed to be available. I know she was there, but surprised if she dressed out. Tobin Heath will be making her debut for the NY Fury as well and I think this will be the first time any of the current USWNT players appear in the WPSL Elite. http://www.nyfurysoccer.com/article.php?article_id=42
Today is Heather O'Reilly's farewell game and the Breakers have tickets for half off. HAO50 is the coupon code. There are actually 2 articles in today's Boston Globe (a big shock because they haven't covered the team or league at all this season): Both are probably behind the Globe's paywall... http://bostonglobe.com/sports/2012/...-pro-soccer/TGm224p7VPRCR5sl1ocdaJ/story.html There's another one on Leslie Osborne that I can't seem to find in the online version. The big point is that she's been heavily responsible for recruiting players and for bringing in sponsors. The writer gives her a lot of credit for holding things together for the team. Not a lot of new info in the main article, mostly about WUSA, WPS and WPSL-E history. Plenty of money talk and "future of the USWNT" as well.
Here's the link to the Osborne article (again, probably behind the Globe paywall): http://www.bostonglobe.com/2012/07/...ers-kicking/dfSpr8bSeHe1mnlRbTdKyN/story.html
I was at the game tonight, and saw another good win for the Breakers. The Australians showed well! But in goal... wow, that's a position that needs an upgrade. Anyway, does anyone have any idea what the substitution rules are in WPSL? I was kind of caught off guard by the number of subs allowed.
I was there tonight myself. Good to see HAO in action. WPSL allows 6 subs. I was surprised in last week's game against Chicago that the Breakers used only one sub, though they had a much deeper bench and were looking for something to get them the late goal they eventually found. The GK is the newly signed backup from Colombia, making her WPSL debut. She is Colombia's 3rd keeper, so that should tell you something. The regular keeper, Alice Binns, is more than solid (she saved their bacon last week) and had played 10 complete games up to now. Because the Breakers have another game tomorrow, they cobbled together the lineup and used many more subs than they usually would. I'm not sure if they will have the Aussies tomorrow since they've been called up for NT duty. Interesting to see that HAO started on the right, but almost immediately moved to an advanced left wing position and stayed there the rest of the game. She assisted on the 1st 2 goals.
Breakers win the regular season WPSL Elite title, earning them the chance to face the Red Stars, the only remaining team to have dealt them a loss on the field. http://www.bostonbreakerssoccer.com/home/647719.html