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Article: Bay Area Joins Women's Professional Soccer WPS for Inaugural Season.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- September 18, 2008
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Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announced that it has entered an agreement with a Bay Area investor group to operate a team that will play in the League's inaugural 2009 season. The addition of the Bay Area alongside Los Angeles gives WPS two franchises located on the West Coast (see also Women's Professional Soccer WPS).
Led by Brian and Nancy NeSmith, the Bay Area ownership group joins investors in Boston, Chicago, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, Washington, D.C. and L.A. as teams planned for the League's 2009 season, thereby giving the League a national footprint of three East Coast, two Midwest and two West Coast franchises. WPS will expand to Atlanta and ...