SAN FRANCISCO (March 3, 2009) – The seven franchises of Women’s Professional Soccer opened up preseason training in the past 48 hours with players reporting for light work-outs and physicals on Sunday and more formal practices on Monday. The month of March will feature more than 20 exhibitions, scrimmages and preseason games involving WPS teams with the highlights including Saturday, March 14, when four WPS teams square off in preseason games and March 21, when four WPS teams will be in action against college and club teams. The first preseason game for a WPS franchise will be Friday’s scrimmage for the Boston Breakers against the University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT. The Chicago Red Stars play in a round robin tournament against Northwestern and Purdue on Saturday, March 7.
Chicago Red Stars Head Coach, Emma Hayes prepares her team for the first training session of the Inaugral WPS Season.
