Abby Wambach

Extra Time: Wambach Tried to Put Injury Behind Her

New York Times (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008

Abby Wambach is hoping to be ready to play for the Washington Freedom in April, when the seven-team W.P.S. is scheduled to begin play.

Wambach to D.C., Solo to St. Louis

Soccer Insider (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008

The new women's pro soccer league (WPS) will not announce its major U.S. player allocations until tomorrow at a news conference in New York, but word is beginning to circulate about where the top Americans are headed. Sources tell the Insider that Abby Wambach, the high-scoring forward who missed the Olympics with a broken leg, will play for the Washington Freedom. She began her career...

Lilly to Boston, Wambach to Washington, Hope to St. Louis as national team players allocated

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Each of the seven squads received three players Tuesday. Kristine Lilly will play for Boston, Abby Wambach will be in Washington and goalie Hope Solo in St. Louis.

Lilly, Wambach, Solo placed in new soccer league

ESPN (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

NEW YORK -- Kristine Lilly will play for Boston, Abby Wambach will be in Washington and Hope Solo will suit up for St. Louis in the new Women's Professional Soccer league. U.S. national team players were allocated to the league's clubs Tuesday. Each of the seven squads received three players.The league is scheduled to debut in April. It will also have franchises in the Bay Area, Chicago,...

Wambach goes full circle as women's league stocks rosters

USA Today (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Women's Professional Soccer inherits a few players and a couple of teams from the WUSA, which ceased full operations after the ...

Abby Wambach Back On Her Feet

Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008

JEN RYNDA staff photographer Abby Wambach talks during Abby Wambach's Youth Soccer Clinic. Via JordanCornBlog , this Rochester Democrat & Chronicle article on Abby Wambach. Good to see Abbs up and about. (I hope she's wearing sunscreen out there in sunny California. I'm sure after growing up in Rochester where six-feet-of-snow winters last from October to...

WPS - Womens Professional Soccer 2009 Drafts

Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

... WagnerSky Blue FC: Natasha Kai, Heather O'Reilly, Christie RamponeWashington Freedom: Ali Krieger, Abby Wambach, Cat WhitehillEach team got four picks in the Initial International Draft. The General Draft, which takes place on October 6th, will also allow more international players to be picked. The initial international draft does not mean that the players are signed, It is the start...

US players allocated to women's pro league

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Kristine Lilly will play for Boston, Abby Wambach will be in Washington and Hope Solo will suit up for St. Louis in the new Women's Professional Soccer league.

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US soccer players allocated to women's pro league

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

NEW YORK -- Kristine Lilly will play for Boston, Abby Wambach will be in Washington and Hope Solo will suit up for St. Louis in the new Women's Professional Soccer league.

US soccer players allocated to women's pro league

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Kristine Lilly will play for Boston, Abby Wambach will be in Washington and Hope Solo will suit up for St. Louis in the new Women's Professional Soccer league.

Freedom Allocations Are Set

Soccer Insider (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008

Insider loyalists were the first to learn today that Abby Wambach, the U.S. women's national team's premier player, will play for the Washington Freedom in the new pro league that kicks off next spring. We can now tell you that the Freedom's other two allocations from the national team player pool are veteran central defender Cat Whitehill and outside defender Ali Krieger, a Dumfries,...

U.S. Ryder hopes alive sans Woods

Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008

... won the next year. And it happened as recently as this summer when U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach broke her leg just before the Olympics, and the Americans won the gold medal.The story line here seems to follow form. Woods is a far better individual player than he is a teammate. He has won 14 majors in the midst of a total of 75 victories around the world. Yet in the Ryder...

U.S. WNT Set to Face Ireland in Second Match of Achieve Your Gold Tour at 7:30 p.m. ET at Giants Stadium

U.S. Soccer (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008

... match, Hucles was heading to China as a role player off the bench. That all changed when Abby Wambach went down with a broken leg. Hucles went into that match against Brazil and helped the USA come away with a 1-0 victory. Thrust into a starting role in China at forward, her college position, but one she had rarely played since, she came up huge for the U.S., leading the team in scoring...

Steve Nash Likes American Women, Willing to Pay for Them

The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008

... on a Cardinals cap, inciting a Will Leitch session more ferocious than his most blustering rant. Abby Wambach, when she recovers from a broken leg, will be taxed without representation in the Nation’s capital. Heather Mitts and Kristine Lilly will join the Boston Breakers . [ Ed. Even money says she's dating a Red Sox or Patriots player within a year. ] The other four clubs will be...

Hope Solo, Tina Ellertson selected by St. Louis in new women's soccer league

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008

... Lilly, the second-leading scorer in the sport's history, will play for Boston. Offensive standout Abby Wambach heads to Washington, D.C.The league also will have franchises in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York/New Jersey.A contract between the WPS and the national-team players association has yet to be completed, commissioner Tonya Antonucci said. Antonucci...