The Los Angeles Sol is being sold by Anschutz Entertainment Group, which also operates the Galaxy, to a group of local investors. The pending sale, which the league says could be done by the coming week, comes as no surprise. The team reportedly lost around $2 million last year and AEG had always said that their involvement with the Sol and WPS was temporary.
After a tumultuous season on and off the pitch, Sky Blue FC pulled off the mother of all upsets Saturday afternoon at the Home Depot Center. A strike off the foot of Heather O’Reilly coupled with some gritty defense and some timely breaks enabled the New York/New Jersey franchise to claim the inaugural Women’s Professional Soccer championship over the host Los Angeles Sol by a 1-0 score.
The inaugural regular season of Women’s Professional Soccer doesn’t end until Aug. 9, but we already know where the first championship game will be held. That will be at the Home Depot Center on Aug. 22, and the Los Angeles Sol ensured that on Thursday night, as the Sol played to a 0-0 draw against [...]
U.S. Women’s National Team goalkeeper Hope Solo turned in a stellar performance for the visiting Saint Louis Athletica, who became the first visiting team to win at the Home Depot Center on Wednesday night. With the 1-0 victory, Saint Louis stays in the hunt for the WPS regular season championship.
Though it’s only the first season, Women’s Professional Soccer’s version of the California Clasico is already turning into a one-sided rivalry. The Sol have yet to allow FC Gold Pride to even score on them let alone beat them, and the trend continued on Sunday afternoon, as two first-half goals combined with an unbreakable defense [...]
Playing their third game in a week, the Los Angeles Sol showed no signs of fatigue against the surging Washington Freedom, with a late penalty kick by Camille Abily the game winner only three minutes after Sonia Bompastor had equalized for the visitors. With the win, the Sol expand their lead atop the WPS standings to 12 points.
Camille Abily and Shannon Boxx supplied the goals and the Los Angeles Sol cruised to a 2-0 victory over the visiting Saint Louis Athletica at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., Saturday afternoon. Win the win, the Sol expand their lead in first place.
The Los Angeles Sol, the first placed team in Women’s Professional Soccer (featuring Marta, at left in action against Sky Blue a fortnight ago) host Saint Louis Athletica in the first leg of a WPS-MLS doubleheader at the Home Depot Center Saturday.
Marta’s late second-half goal was all the Sol needed on Friday night at the Home Depot Center, as the Sol snapped a brief three-match winless streak with a 1-0 win over the New York-New Jersey franchise. Read the match report or head over to the image gallery.
You knew Marta would eventually have her day. If finally happened in a big way in Bridgewater, N.J. on Sunday afternoon, as the Brazilian found the back of the net twice in the closing minutes of the first half as the Los Angeles Sol spoiled Sky Blue FC’s WPS debut witha 2-1 win at TB [...]
