It was a momentous week for the USWNT as Wednesday saw Pia’s first national team call-ups since the new women’s professional league began play. The team has two upcoming friendlies against Japan May 20th & May 23rd. Seventeen WPS and four college players made the roster. And Pia’s response: “Now is the [...]

i.e. Olympic semifinalists Japan on May 23rd @4pm (MT) and the game will be broadcast on Fox Soccer Channel. And yes, it is gonna be that kind of party so get ready to be sticking *ahem* in the mashed potatoes.
In the meantime, do enjoy highlights of the Algarve Cup final loss to Sweden…

Here’s Hope [...]

By the half, the score was 1-0 to Sweden. Then Shannon Boxx scored a 90th minute goal to take the Final to penalties. And SEVEN ROUNDS LATER Heather Mitts hit the post and cost the US the win. This game also just happened to be Mitts’ 100th cap so perhaps not [...]

Here’s Megan, courtesy of the USWNT blog, channeling another popular national team player:

Here’s Megan at a radio station in Portland kicking a ball at a station employee. I counted two times she kicked him in the balls. Also, I found this clip because her boss posted it on Twitter today. Lulz:

And here’s [...]

Big shout out to omg yanks for finding it:

Now I’m a little bit less jealous of the damn f*cking sheep.

It was a 90th minute volley from Natasha Kai (shown above – hey, isphotos don’t have their game pics up yet so I had to improvise) to put the score at 1-0 and guarantee the US a spot in the March 11 championship match. So the March 9 game against Norway is basically [...]

The USWNT opened up their 2009 campaign by beating Denmark 2-0 earlier today. The goals were from Angie Woznuk and Tina DiMartino in the first half and Hope Solo made some BENJAMIN BUTTONS SH*T saves and… uh… I think that just about summed the game up. I was sleeping off a hangover [...]

The USWNT arrived in Portugal on February 26th to prepare for their first Algarve Cup match against Denmark on March 4. This particular game starts at 7am EST and as far as I can tell, will not be broadcast on tv or the internet. I searched all the usual places and so far, [...]

Gone from the list are the youngsters in camp. The final cut belongs to the veterans. But with Wambach & Osborne injured and Markgraf at home eating pickles (I’ve heard pregnant women crave pickles – go figure), there’s a teensy bit of room for some new faces. Namely, uncapped Kendall Fletcher and [...]

About the only exciting thing that’s come out of the senior USWNT training camp is the news that Kacey White accidentally broke Ella Masar’s nose. Yup, the Algarve Cup can’t come quickly enough. So since we’re a little bereft of competitions to write about and partially inspired by the Chicago Red Stars Twitter [...]