http://www.fifa.com/en/womens/index/0,1625,106091,00.html?articleid=106091 "Europe turns into the new Eldorado": "............Since the WUSA professional league in the United States collapsed in 2003, more and more women footballers are looking to join the top European leagues. With a number of big international tournaments coming up - the 2005 UEFA European Championship in England, the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia, and the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China - many players are trying to join leading teams already in order to take part in the development of women's football and to improve their own levels of performance. European leagues as objects of desire As well as Germany and Spain, women footballers have discovered the leagues in France and especially in Scandinavia. A number of American women have breathed new life into the slumbering French league. No few than five US internationals- goalkeeper Hope Solo, defender Danielle Slaton, midfielders Aly Wagner and Lorrie Fair, and striker Christie Welsh - play for Olympique Lyon, whose regular involvement in the Champions League in recent years has substantially improved the club's financial strength. Solo had already acclimatised to European football during a successful year with Gothenburg in Sweden Kristine Lilly, Kate Markgraf and Mary-Frances Monroe answered the call of Pia Sundhage, their former coach at the Boston Breakers, to join Örebro in Sweden's Damallsvenskan, currently the strongest European league. There has even been talk of a comeback by the retired German World Cup-winner Maren Meinert, another of Sundhage's charges in Boston days, although Meinert has ruled it out. The transfer roundabout has been revolving vigorously in Scandinavia. In addition to numerous moves by Swedish players within the league, foreign players are at the top of teams' wish lists. Malmö are delighted that Brazil's Formiga, who had already played for the southern Swedish club last year and made a huge impression both as a player and a person, has signed to return for a further six matches ahead of the European Championship, thanks to private sponsors. A long-term deal is in prospect if the financially stricken club can come up with more money........................"
I don't know why is that "Defenswins" didn't copy the whole FIFA report. You cut all references to what happen with Latinamerican players going to Europe looking for chances to play and even make a living in Europe. Cristiane from Brasil in Turbine Postdam, Maribel Domínguez from Mexico in Barcelona, Iris Mora, and Fatima Leyva as possible players in Barca too, Marta from Brasil in Umea, and even Nigerian Maureen Mmadu in Klepp Idrettslag. You miss to copy too, the reference to the situation of women's leagues in Brasil and Mexico. Aren't these issues as important as the pice you copied in which only the US players are named?