Today the Women’s Professional Soccer league made the announcement that the Atlanta Beat’s new stadium would be home of the 2010 WPS All-Star game on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 7:30 including a live pregame show. The June 30th date is a day after the Mens 2010 World Cup round of 16 concludes. The All-Star date is nearly one year prior to the Womens World Cup in Germany that starts on June 26th, 2011.
“Atlanta, with its wonderful new stadium built specifically for WPS, will be a fantastic venue for our second WPS All-Star Game,” said WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci. “We decided to try something different this year with our format and move the date to mid-season to provide some separation from our WPS Championship. It should make for an incredible mid-summer festival of the world’s best soccer league for women.”
A total pool of 36 players will be selected in early-June as WPS All-Stars, with 22 players chosen through voting by teams, players, media and fans, and another 14 All-Star Coaches and Commissioner’s picks. The highest-voted international and domestic player will be announced as captains. All 36 players will then travel to Atlanta. In Atlanta, the two captains together with the team coaches will select the Starting XI for each team in an alternating “playground pick-em” style format during a public event in the days prior to the WPS All-Star Game.
I know these women are very self-confident but I imagine this is conguring up memories of the “playground pick-em” when someone was pick-em’d last. Thanks to WPS and Fox it will be shown live to the world and their mom and dad. That’s just wrong on an international level.
Seats to the All-Star game go on sale to the general public Saturday, May 1 at 9:00 a.m. The WPS All-Star voting will begin online in May. Could we see a Bachmann / Heath showdown?
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