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On this special episode of the women’s soccer podcast, Set Piece Analysts’ Jeff Kassouf and Richard Farley talk about the folding of Saint Louis Athletica. Set Piece Analysts’ Women’s Soccer podcast is a weekly effort from Jeff Kassouf and Richard Farley. You can get it via iTunes. Don’t forget you can get in touch with the [...] Apr. 27, 2010 – Fenton, Missouri, United States of America – April 25, 2010 Athletica forward Eniola Aluko (9, left) kicks the ball past Breakers defender Amy LePeilbet (6) in the first half. The St. Louis Athletica and the Boston Breakers tied, 1-1, at the Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park in Fenton, MO on Sunday April [...]
Steve Ralston, being introduced as AC St. Louis’s first player. (Photo: Chris Fitzgerald/AC St. Louis) The NASL’s has landed the league’s first signing from Major League Soccer. Steve Raltson, formerly of the New England Revolution, has signed with AC St. Louis, the team announced this afternoon. Ralston had previously announced he would not be returning [...] Set Piece Analyst Kartik Krishnaiyer has been announced as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for the nascent North American Soccer League. He will start immediately. Krishnaiyer is a founding owner and contributor to Set Piece Analysts. As a consequence of this hire, Krishnaiyer will reduce his writing and broadcasting work after January 31st. [...] The following was distributed by US Soccer on Thursday, 13:39 Central time: From the U.S. Soccer Communications Center: DIVISION 2 PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE TO OPERATE IN 2010 U.S. Soccer Will Oversee Two Conference League CHICAGO (Jan. 7, 2009) – The U.S. Soccer Federation, United Soccer Leagues (USL) and the North American Soccer League (NASL) [...] Montreal Impact supporters should have league football to cheer, thanks to a likely USSF compromise solution (Photo: Flickr/nvspace126) The United States Soccer Federation is now prepared to sanction a “compromise” league. We should see second division play in 2010. Though nothing is finalized, a possible solution has the second division functioning with two conferences: North [...] The sporting industry is one of big money. That has been evident for quite some time, and the ever-increasing salaries for athletes combined with multi-million dollar sponsorships only reaffirms this. Because of all the money that has been pumped into sports both domestically and internationally, fans have increased access to their favorite teams via insider [...] The Vancouver Whitecaps (here, circa 2008) are one of fifteen franchises scheduled to play in the NASL or USL-1 by 2011 who were left in limbo by Wednesday's decision from the USSF. (Photo: Flickr/Proggie) United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati, while announcing the governing body’s decision to reject the NASL’s application for [...] On Wednesday night, the North American Soccer League issue a three paragraph statement through some of its clubs’ web sites, a response to the USSF decision earlier in the day to withhold sanction of their league as a second division of soccer in the United States. Below is the full text of the statement as [...] The following is the statement released by the United States Soccer Federation announcing that neither the NASL nor the USL would be sanctioned for play at the second level of United States soccer. The statement was originally released at US Soccer’s web site on December 30, 2009, the full text of which can [...] |
 
 
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