Articles tagged with "marta"
WPS may be a bit sleepy but the world of women's footy soldiers on
By Melissa | November 20th, 2009Not exactly sleepy. WPS is hiring which is pretty impressive considering THIS ECONOMY. FIFA recently did a women's football roundup which is worth a read. ...
The Offside 100: 2000-09, THE RESULTS!
By Rob | November 7th, 2009Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players ...
Holy Nominations! The FIFA Shortlist is here!
By Melissa | October 30th, 2009Whoa Nelly a lot has happened since I last wrote but I was a bit busy getting all hyped up then crashing like a narcotics ...
Something Happened!
By Melissa | September 22nd, 2009Today was all a-twitter as Philly and ATL got to pick five international players each to stock their rosters. But, assuming similar rules apply ...
Why Sky Blue FC's Championship Win is Good News for WPS
By Daryl | August 24th, 2009Sky Blue FC beat LA Sol 1-0 to win the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) championship game on Saturday, thanks to a goal from Heather O'Reilly ...
A Marta Bobblehead? Women's Soccer Has Truly Arrived
By Laurie | June 14th, 2009How do you know when your sport has arrived in the bigtime? When its star player gets turned into a bobblehead. This is ...
Picture of the Week
By Melissa | May 24th, 2009Source Kandace Wilson leaves Sunday's FC Gold Pride game against LA Sol on crutches after a second half hip check from Marta caused Wilson to be ...
Now Where Did I Put My 'Panic Button' ...?
By David | May 11th, 2009There's an old joke that California -- unlike the rest of the nation -- has two seasons: the Rainy Season and the Fire Season. ...
WPS Debuts, Marta Shines, AP Report Doesn't
By Daryl | March 30th, 2009Women's Professional Soccer kicked off in the US yesterday. A better than expected crowd of 14,832 turned up at the Home Depot Center to see ...
Brazilian Cavalry Arrives This Week
By David | March 19th, 2009Word from FC Gold Pride management is that the cavalry is arriving this week, just in time for the start of the regular season in ...
10 Things That Could Change Football As We Know It
By Daryl | March 19th, 2009Man Utd top of the Prem, Barca top of La Liga, Inter top of Serie A. Four English teams in the Champions League quarter-finals. Ronaldo ...
Pic of the Week
By Melissa | March 6th, 2009Kobe Bryant welcomes Marta to LA and apparently Amway does too. So does this mean pyramid schemes will slowly make their way into ...
Offside Rewind: Get Your Own Shorts
By Daryl | February 20th, 2009Seven things you might have missed on The Offside and World Cup Blog this week: World Cup 2010 tickets finally on sale All hail Maraguero Michel Platini plans ...
Oldham: We Want A Lady! Wait, No We Don't.
By chris | February 16th, 2009How does that famous quote go? "One small step for women, one giant leap backwards for mankind"? Or something like that? Okay, maybe not, but that's ...
Marta daSilva Wins FIFA Player of the Year
By Melissa | January 12th, 2009Figure I'd go ahead and imitate the post from Chris on the main site. Yeah, congrats to her. Oh and she's joining ...
Speaking of International signings...
By Melissa | January 8th, 2009Apparently, Umea just announced they've officially dropped out of the bidding war over Marta which leaves La Sol as the lone interested club. And, ...
My offer to Marta
By Melissa | November 28th, 2008Since the contact negotiations between Umea and LA Sol and now LDB FC Malmo as well as teams in France, Germany, and Norway continue, I ...
Stuff to ponder today... which is a holiday in the USA
By Melissa | November 27th, 2008Meaning lots of food and football (of the opposite kind). Here's some stuff I am thinking about or I just find amusing... * My friend's ...
Who Do You Market To?
By Melissa | November 25th, 2008The East Bay Rats are a motorcycle club from the East Bay, here in Northern California (i.e. Oakland, Berkeley, etc etc... the cities on the ...
Daily Dose: Nov 21st, 2008
By Daryl | November 21st, 2008Something to read while you dream of what might have been... Cristiano Ronaldo's alternative method for terrorizing fullbacks (Off the Post) What did Marta mean exactly? (WPS ...
Bag O' Crap
By Melissa | November 21st, 2008Yesterday was the day for Woot to announce their somewhat regular and extremely popular giveaway bonanza, so in honor of not winning my very own, ...
Ronaldo Plays Twenty Minutes for Charity; Zidane Goes an Hour
By Laurie | November 18th, 2008Watching charity matches is always a little surreal. Part footy match, part spectacle, part day trip away from the retirement home. I don't ...
The Downside
By Melissa | November 12th, 2008Previously, I wrote about the upside to non-overlapping, short-season leagues (more money & more playing time) but I neglected to mention the possible more problems ...
FIFA shortlist filled with players in a league yet to play a game
By Melissa | October 30th, 2008Oh, wait. First I'm going to digress for a few seconds. If you are a Bay Area resident and of or above the ...
SE Sorocabana 1 x 7 Corinthians
By dylan | September 9th, 2008Hands up if you heard about this one... SE Sorocabana 1 x 7 Corinthians, in Round 18 of the Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino Fabiana Baiana & ...
Saddest and Proudest Post of the History of this Blog
By Bruno Romani | August 21st, 2008This is the saddest post since I started this blog. We lost the final of the Olympics for the USA in the extra-time. And the ...
Brazil 4 - 1 Germany: The Underdogs are in the Final Again!
By Bruno Romani | August 18th, 2008Brazil started as the underdog. A smell of inferiority complex was in the air. Germany scored in a mistake of Érika. Germany missed a few ...
Women's Squad in the Olympics: Brazil 2 - 1 N. Korea
By Bruno Romani | August 9th, 2008N. Korea had a more disciplined and collective game. We had Marta. If you're looking for a great Brazilian wearing the number 10 in the ...
Seattle can keep their Henry rumors, we've got Marta up in hurr
By Melissa | June 9th, 2008To the extent that we can create buzz and excitement during these early stages of the league, the WPS site released more news today regarding ...
The build-up... updates
By Melissa | June 8th, 2008This past week, I successfully passed the San Jose Offside blog torch to Sean and Ian, the Chicago WPS team unveiled their name and logo, ...
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