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...commissioner Tonya Antonucci has promised to keep costs in check. WPS players will earn an average of $32,000 for a seven-month contract, which frees the players to suit up overseas, or hold down another job, in the off-season to supplement their income. The average salary of WUSA players was around $40,000 a year; stars like Mia Hamm were paid as much...
Borrowing a trick from MLS, the teams will also play in cozier venues. "For fans it's a more intimate, authentic soccer experience when you're closer to the field, instead of in cavernous environment," says Antonucci. "Plus, it doesn't cost as much to operate and staff a smaller facility." For example, in the WUSA the Washington Freedom played in RFK Stadium, the former home of the Washington Redskins and their 50,000 crazed fans. Now, the Freedom will play at a 5,200-seat soccer complex in Maryland...
Just as important, WPS plans to market the league beyond the ponytail posse, its core fan base of tween and pre-tween girls. "The WUSA was more aspirational for young girls," says Antonucci, a former Yahoo! executive and Stanford soccer player who has worked on the league's relaunch for more than four years. "What we're doing is socially important, but it has to be broader than that." In Boston, for example, the players have headed out to city bars to play pool with twenty-somethings and connect with young adult fans. On Sunday the Chicago Red Stars will...
Deborah J. Abel, Michael U. Antonucci, Tal Astrachan, James C. Augustine, Erin E. Bair, Alicia L. Bannon, Judith Batalion, Megan Beck, Lauren K. Brozovich, Brad W. Butcher, Eugene K. Cha, Amy Chen, Kevin J. Cheung, Michael Chu, Adam E. Cohen, Vincent Conitzer, David M. Cooper, Russell S. Cox, Corinne S. Crawford, Kumar Dharmarajan, Haninder K. Dhesi, Lindiwe Dovey, Anne C. Durston, William Edwards, Alison F. Egan, Alexander J. Eilhauer, Michal Engelman, Lukasz Fidkowski, Kyle R. Freeny, Rachel S.C. Friedman, Kimberlee R. Garris, Jamie H. Ginott, Rebecca P. Gogel, Jennifer L. Gooden, Alexander H. Gourevitch, Elizabeth A. Greenwood, Nicholas R. Guydosh...
While the board had been trying to appoint a permanent educational commissioner since Robert Antonucci's resignation last February, it had struggled with political divisions...