All Blog Posts Tagged 'stars' (132)

COACH GRAY: WPS All Star vs. Umea IK (part 1)

Great Game! Great end to a wonderful inaugural season. WPS All Stars What Went Wrong 1) The All Stars: This is problem indicative of US sports. Too often we put more on the individual talent than on team chemistry and cohesion. This is the problem with US basketball and the NFL. Soccer is, in my opinion, the only truly team sport out there. Here in the US the sooner we come to realize that the key to soccer is tight, cohesive play that is fluid and uses the strengths of individual players the… Continue

Added by Coach Gray on August 30, 2009 at 7:29pm — 2 Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Final Edition

What a year. What a season. What extraordinary history.

A few years after the Women's United Soccer Association folded, Women's Professional Soccer picked up the pieces.

Seven teams from seven different cities made a commitment to rekindle the dream to develop the women's game in a country with a tradition of producing some the of the best players in the world.

The journey to this championship started on a late March afternoon in Los Angeles, and the journey ended o

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Added by JR Salazar on August 24, 2009 at 12:36am — No Comments

SKY BLUE VS SOL.......THE ATMOSHPHERE WILL BE AWESOME

I AM POTT AND I AM A BUCKS FAN. I AM A BREWER FAN. I AM A RED STAR FAN, IN FACT THE BIGGEST RED STAR FAN EVER (MINUS KT I). NOT A FAIRWEATHER FAN. BUT......HUGE "BUT" ........THE RED STARS DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO THE PLAY OFFS (SAD FACE) SO THAT LEAVES ME WITH 4 CHOICES...I COULD SAY "YAY SOL" UMMMM....NO. I DON'T LIKE THE SOL. MARTA'S ABILITY TO WOO CROWDS WITH HER RAZZLE DAZZLE I'M GONNA KICK A PLAYER WHILE THEY'RE DOWN STYLE DOESN'T IMPRESS ME....UNCHECK. I COULD SAY 'YIPPEEE STL' ACTUA… Continue

Added by Pott Rocks on August 20, 2009 at 1:00pm — 7 Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 20

We have come to the end of the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season, and we see Sky Blue FC clinch the final postseason berth. This year has been full of extraordinary everything: goals, saves, and skill all around. I am glad to have been a part of witnessing it, as you are.

As more history is made before our eyes this weekend, we take a look at the penultimate edition of the Power Rankings for this inaugural season.

1. ST. LOUIS ATHLETICA

Hope S

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Added by JR Salazar on August 11, 2009 at 8:00pm — 11 Comments

TERRIBLE FANS, Chipped teef and NO JUMBO-TRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for reporting me!!!

AND YOU SAY CHI-CITY.........WE THINK ABOUT YOU NOW AND THEN..... REACH FOR THE STARS SO IF YOU FALL YOU'LL LAND ON THE CLOUDS......... As my road through the inaugural season of the Chicago Red Stars concludes (minus the ALLSTARS) I would like to say thank you. Instead of just following the Fire sporadically and playing softball all summer, you guys added a new chapter to my life, which in my book, is going to be a long one. Thank the staff first of all for making this first tim… Continue

Added by Pott Rocks on August 6, 2009 at 6:30pm — 5 Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 19

The Los Angeles Sol are indeed beatable. Just ask the Chicago Red Stars, who give their home fans something to be happy about with one week of games in the regular season remaining. St. Louis returns to the top spot in this week's rankings.

Let's go right ahead and dissect the list for wonderful Week 19, which will see the European players take the rest of the season off for Women's Euro 2009.

1. St. Louis Athletica

It was a super Saturday for Athle

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Added by JR Salazar on August 4, 2009 at 4:24pm — 1 Comment

Los Angeles-Chicago: Red Stars rise in final home game of season over Sol

A 3-1 defeat for the Los Angeles Sol to the Chicago Red Stars at Toyota Park in Bridgeview summons the question: Have the Sol slumped at the wrong time?

And another question: where was this effort by the Women of the Windy City during a good deal of the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season?

Emma Hayes's club pulled in a performance that was reminiscent of their 4-0 victory over the Boston Breakers early in the season.

But a series of poor finishing, patchwork def

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Added by JR Salazar on August 2, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Los Angeles vs. Chicago: A Play-By-Play (and Other Miscellany)

T-15 minutes to kickoff: Hello everyone at Bleacher Report. Reporting here from my little one-man press box in West Long Beach to provide my insights on today's match.

As I look back on a quarter-century of being here, I also look back on what has been a magnificent season for the WPS Regular Season champions, the Los Angeles Sol. Today, they face the Chicago Red Stars at Toyota Park.

It will be a matter of pride for the Red Stars, under manager Emma Hayes. Already out of

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Added by JR Salazar on August 2, 2009 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Chicago Red Stars....I Love You!

This was an incredibly frustrating season to watch. I've admittedly suffered through worse seasons, such as 2002 when my beloved New York Power won a total of 2 games in a 21 game season following their heartbreaking defeat in the league semi-finals the year before. But somehow the pain is worse this time around. It might have something to do with seeing the damage in person. Or the $15 parking at Toyota Park, which costs more than the individual tickets, (Fact: Parking at Disneyland is $12.) pu… Continue

Added by snipoppers16 on July 29, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

An upcoming interview with Red Stars player Nikki Krzysik

Nikki Krzysik has started 9 games so far for the Red Stars this season. She is probably one of the sweetest players I have come across this year. I'll be interviewing Nikki, so check out this blog post and look for details on when/where to submit questions to ask Nikki. Thanks! What would you like to know about Red Stars player N… Continue

Added by Nicole Hack on July 29, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 18

With the Los Angeles Sol clinching the WPS Regular Season championship, the race for the remaining three playoff spots sees Chicago and FC Gold Pride drop out.

So let's take a look at the rankings this week, while I cry in my birch beer after the USA men suffered their second-straight second-half pratfall in an international championship match.

1. LOS ANGELES SOL

Abner Rogers's Sol didn't clinch the WPS Regular Season trophy on Wednesday, but they g

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Added by JR Salazar on July 28, 2009 at 6:02pm — 1 Comment

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 17

As the Los Angeles Sol prepares for its three-game road trip and its counterpart, the LA Galaxy, plays AC Milan to a 2-2 draw, the Boston Breakers retake the top spot in this week's WPS Power Rankings. Could the Sol make a run and finish second?

Let's take a look and find out.

1. Boston Breakers

Returning to the top spot this week is Tony DiCicco's Boston Breakers. A key pair of victories this week have paced Boston to second in the WPS standings

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Added by JR Salazar on July 21, 2009 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 16

In this week's edition of the 2009 WPS Power Rankings, we come to the conclusion that any fortress can be breached, so long as you play like a tired, exhausted shell of yourself.

Just ask the team that dropped to second in our Power Rankings, the Los Angeles Sol.

Meanwhile, the hopes of the other teams below LA begin to flicker, so let's take a look.

1. ST. LOUIS ATHLETICA

Jorge Barcellos got the breakthrough victory he needed from his club

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Added by JR Salazar on July 14, 2009 at 7:21pm — 5 Comments

Tarpley, Rapinoe and the Playoffs...

Just wrote a little blog entry about Tarpley winning player of the week, about Rapinoe's magical shoes and a player interview she did, plus a link to a WPS Fan Corner blog... about the LA Sol, St. Louis Athletica and the playoffs. Check it out: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-red-stars-confidential/2009/07/lindsay-tarpley-named-wps-player.html Continue

Added by Nicole Hack on July 10, 2009 at 3:18pm — 3 Comments

What is up with this!?!?

WPS/News/Transactions June 26, 2009: The Chicago Red Stars have named Lotta Schelin from Sweden as a discovery player and have been assigned her WPS-playing rights. I thought St. Louis had the WPS-playing rights to her!?!? She was one of our picks in the International Draft. Continue

Added by Shannon Nicole;; on July 8, 2009 at 1:04pm — 12 Comments

2009 WPS Power Rankings: Week 15

In a league like the WPS, we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all footballers are created equal, that they are endowed by the footballing gods that be with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of postseason happiness.

As the Los Angeles Sol perch on the doorstep of winning the Women's Professional Soccer regular season championship, the teams below jostle for the other three playoff spots up for grabs.

Without fur

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Added by JR Salazar on July 7, 2009 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

KICK, PUSH........................COOOOAST. CHI-CITY LIVES ON.

I just want to start off by saying that last night might have been some of the best soccer I have seen in real life….I’m not saying that every game isn’t the best soccer ever but sometimes you watch some of the best soccer on tv and you wish you were there because your like “damn, that’s some good gnikcuf soccer”…..well, last night I was there and I saw it all! Let me tell you a little bit of what I saw last night. First off, let’s give these Red Stars a round of applause for a stellar performa… Continue

Added by Pott Rocks on July 2, 2009 at 4:00pm — 8 Comments

Red Stars: There's No Other Way To Describe This Feeling

Other than this:

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Added by snipoppers16 on July 2, 2009 at 12:12pm — 2 Comments

2009 WPS Weekly Power Rankings: Week 14

Plenty of action this week in Women's Professional Soccer. By the way, a Happy Independence Day to you all. Even though this article is posted beforehand, I believe that coming prepared for what will happen in the future is key to surviving the cruel realities of the present.

Now, it's no surprise who is first this week.

I mean, do we even need to figure it out? All right, I have been drinking a little too much of that tonic the touters on Fox Soccer Channel call 5-Hour Ene

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Added by JR Salazar on June 30, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Chicago red stars PANIC BUTTON, well actually not quite yet?

Chicago is not as bad as everyone is making them come off. Watching the games, I wouldnt say theres a lack of coaching. They are getting there chance to win games, but the goals arent going into the net. Going forward they have every tool needed, and they are doing well. How many chances have been cleared off of the line or hit the post. Thats just bad luck granted its been happening for some games now so its demoralizing. That has nothing to do with a coach, a coach is supposed to give there te… Continue

Added by Pat on June 30, 2009 at 12:57pm — 1 Comment