Football Partnerships

By billy witz

Whether Women’s Professional Soccer succeeds will not be determined for some time.

Attendance – several thousand per game - was about what might be expected for a high school football game (outside Texas, anyway). And no teams came close to making a profit.

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By Shira Springer

When Erin Kimmelman spied US women’s soccer star Angela Hucles at the Boston Breakers headquarters, the Woburn teenager asked for a picture. “Hold on a minute,” said Hucles, producing the gold medal she won at the Beijing Olympics last summer. Hucles placed it around Kimmelman’s neck.

“I was in awe,” said Kimmelman. “I couldn’t even talk.”

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By R.B. Fallstrom

The commissioner of the fledgling Women’s Pro Soccer League surveyed the standing room audience that showed up on draft day, then smiled as she stepped to the podium.

It further confirmed Tonya Antonucci’s belief that despite the recession, the time is right to try again.

The convention center space used for the draft on Friday in St. Louis wasn’t tough to fill, about 200 or so seats with owners and athletes getting interviewed in corners of the room just out of camera range. It was nothing like the MLS SuperDraft which filled the America’s Center ballroom on Thursday, but that was part of the point.

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