On a weekend where many soccer fans around the world saw beautiful passing and great abilities to go forward during the UEFA Men’s Champions League Final, London was not the only place to see players of this quality. On a rainy Saturday night in a suburb of Boston, the National Women’s Soccer League learned one thing: Lianne Sanderson is a quality number 10 play maker and should be a number one primary concern when preparing to face the Breakers. Other major moments of Week Seven in NWSL regular season action saw a near-triumphant return of a USWNT starter only to be shadowed by a match-changing decision, quick responses to adversity and a defensive wall that still can’t be broken. Here is one last look at the weekend’s fixtures: Read more

The highlight of Week Six in the National Women’s Soccer League was the six point effort from Sky Blue FC on the west coast. There were people that were unsure if the New Jersey outfit could take their success on the road and back up their early presence on top of the league table. But a late winner on Thursday in Portland and a chippy, but professional win against Seattle on Sunday has given Sky Blue a share of first position with the Thorns, with a third of their schedule in the books. Plus there was high scoring action elsewhere as Washington got their forwards on board this week with a 4-2 win over Seattle and FC Kansas City eliminating the last undefeated team in NWSL play. Lets take a look at some of the key players and moments from Week Six: Read more

by JJ Duke

It’s been a running joke with one of my roommates at school for a few years now. He has an old Paul Rodriguez hat that he never wears anymore but has dubbed it his “hat-trick” hat. Reason why was when he was younger, he went to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden and wore that hat for the first time. A New York Ranger player scored a hat-trick that night but he was sitting too far away from the ice to throw it. So he dubbed the hat his “hat-trick” hat and wore it to every game that he went to since that point, hoping for a hat-trick so he could finally toss it. It’s been a few years since that night and he still has the hat and has opened the qualifications to wearing the hat for any sport where a player can score three goals in a game. Unfortunately for my roommate, he would not be anywhere close to Somerville, Mass on Saturday night where the first three-goal performance was ever recorded in NWSL history. Lets take a look back at Week Four of NWSL action: Read more