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New women's soccer league will be in Seattle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Soccer to have an expansion franchise in a new women's professional league that will begin play in the spring of 2013. Soccer president Sunil Gulati announced the league's formation in a teleconference Wednesday morning. It has no affiliation with Major League Soccer or the Sounders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose Sounders Women team announced recently they will remain in the USL W-League and continue to play at Starfire Sports Stadium.
"We are trying to find an economical model that is sustainable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Gulati said. National Team,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which would include presumably Hope Solo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who played with the Sounders Women. About a dozen players will be funded by the Mexican soccer federation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and a similar number by the Canadian federation.
Plans for the new league became known in August during the Summer Olympics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Predmore said at the time he wasn't clear on how the two teams would compete.
"It's hard to say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Predmore said. "I'm hopeful that the town is big enough for two teams."
The league will be a third try for the women's pro game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Women's Professional Soccer started in 2009 and folded in January,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The Women's United Soccer Association was founded in 2000 and folded in 2003,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Both suffered from poor attendance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Plans include a 22-game regular season beginning in March or April of three games against the other seven teams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plus one extra versus Portland. Eleven cities submitted bids and eight were selected.
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