(Image credit) PORTLAND, Ore. – “At the end of the game, the only thing that really counts is the score,” Portland coach Cindy Parlow Cone said after the Thorns’ 2-0 victory over Washington on Sunday at Jeld-Wen Field. It was a less-than-resounding verdict on an underwhelming 90 minutes. And it glosses over reality. With this
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No Comments » Jeld-Wen Field was a spirit-oozing, red-splattered testament to the potential of the NWSL on Sunday. There were 16,479 on hand for the home opener of Portland Thorns FC. There were pregame fireworks and ticket scalpers, post-game rose bouquets for the goal scorers. That it was rival Seattle playing the role of antagonists only ratcheted up
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PORTLAND, Ore. – It took the Portland Thorns a stop-start opening 20 minutes to find an offensive flow. Once they did, there was no stopping the deluge. Marian Dougherty opened the scoring on the stroke of halftime and Alex Morgan netted right on the other side of it, and though Seattle’s Jessica Fishlock pulled one
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Western New York will likely be favored in next Saturday’s Women’s Professional Soccer Championship match, but I’ve just got a good feeling about the Philadelphia Independence. In the times I’ve covered them this season, they’ve played with an incredible intensity and togetherness that is difficult to replicate. Though they had one or two growing pains
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CHESTER, Pa. – Four posts, a 2011 club attendance record and two goals later, the Philadelphia Independence are going to the Women’s Professional Soccer Championship. In front of 5,210 fans at PPL Park, the Independence defeated visiting magicJack by a final score of 2-0 on Saturday. The match got off to a fast start, with
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