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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 11, 2000
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Women's soccer league to begin play
"We want the focus entirely on the women's game," said Julie Foudy, co-captain of the 1999 U.S. team. "We all know how difficult it is to get a league off the ground.
The league begins in April 2001 and has letters of intent to play from all 20 members of the 1999 U.S. world championship team.
Listed as alternates were Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Portland, Raleigh-Durham and St. Louis. Any of those cities might be selected if one of the original eight drops out.
sites. It might not find those venues immediately and could temporarily emulate the MLS, which has many teams playing in NFL stadiums.
"We need to get one season behind us so we know our exact venue needs," said John Hendricks, WUSA's board chairman.
The U.S. Soccer Federation set a May 1 deadline to submit business plans. The WUSA, with a four-year TV contract with Turner Broadcasting and such heavy corporate backers as Time-Warner, Comcast and Cox Communications, already has met that deadline.
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"The soccer federation has a standard for guaranteed funding for a minimum of three years. We wanted to go longer, and we have lined up funding for a full six years: a development year as well as five years of league plav."
Each of the initial eight markets required a $5 million investment.
NEW YORK — Parlaying deep-pocketed investors, a strong television presence and the popularity of the World Cup champions, a women's professional soccer league plans to begin play next spring.
MLS also has expressed interest in forming a women's league and spoke with Hendricks as far back as December about combining
"The official U.S. Soccer standards require each team with a minimum salary level of $400,000," Hendricks said. "From the investor side, to get the absolute top players involved, we needed to double that budget."
The Women's United Soccer Association said yesterday it approved teams for eight cities: Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Orlando-Tampa, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington.
efforts.
The keys to success are signing the best players and hooking up with television. TV coverage would
"We believe we can achieve far more working together than alone." MLS commissioner Don Garber said. "A combined effort would help us position ourselves vs. the other sports as opposed to cannibalizing on the support of either leagues. Collectively, we would ensure the women's viability, which is important to us."
be on TNT and CNNSI, mostly on weekend afternoons.
"You need an investment group solely behind the women's game as its main priority," he said. "The MLS focus is on the men, the WUSA on the women; and it provides a chance to build the sport of soccer throughout the United States."
The WUSA has letters of intent from the top Americans, plus such international stars as Sissi of Brazil, Charmaine Hooper of Canada, Julie Murray of Australia and Patience芜of Nigeria.
Hendricks said his group sent a cooperation agreement to MLS that covered venue development, scheduling and cross-promotion, but made it clear that shared control of a women's league would not work.
WUSA envisions stadiums with capacities of 6,500 to 10,000 for an 80-game schedule, far smaller than Major League. Sorco
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