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Some people say that American soccer lacks an identity, a history, a tradition and that’s why the sport has yet to make a real imprint in the United States sports culture. Regardless of whether this is true or not, the culture of American soccer has undoubtedly been revitalized and revolutionized by the fan and the internet. The blogosphere has enabled rabid fans of The Beautiful Game to pontificate about whatever they please and to shine a light on things often entirely ignored and/or misunderstood by the mainstream sports media. And this is why All White Kit exists. Our aim is to cover the landscape of women’s soccer as best we can.
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Plain and simple, I’m excited to start following your blog! The women’s game could always use more coverage.
Great blog!
Nice blog; keep up the awesome work!
Tremendous work. I’m glad to hear that Ari Hingst is back playing after an injury. I hope to attend a wps game this weekend. Good wishes. You write and can therefore call yourself a writer.
Nice blog I hope the interview is there on Tuesday
You sell yourself short Jenna – the content is downright impressive! From the sheer volume of reporting to your insight into the better half’s game. I’m turning my U13 daughter on to this blog – she’s got a great soccer IQ as it is, but this regular reading would put her over the top!
Keep up the great work!
Wow this site is the best! Please keep writing!
Where was Tasha Kai?
Hi Jenna! I am a HUGE soccer fan and I can’t wait to here about the interview tomorrow!
Hector the homard
Just found your site and am recommending it to whomever I can. Really well done. Please keep it up.
Enjoyed my first Tweetup tonite– #wpschat. Nice. So I’m here and this is seriously one of the most thorough websites covering women’s soccer. Keep it up!
Bonjour Jenna
merci pour votre travail. Chaque jour je vous lis avec un traducteur Français/anglais car ma connaissance de la langue anglaise n’est pas très bonne
j’ai recommandé votre blog à des supporteurs des Comètes de Laval ( le club féminin que je supporte dans la W-League) et à des amis de l’Amiral SC de la Ville de Québec.
Longue vie à All White Kit
Charles
As a native Texan, I know Texas can beat the soccer love out of anyone. Hold tight, I adore your blog and (mostly) agree with you on everything. Cheers!
Great blog. I am now addicted and check it almost everyday. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thankssss
Love my display name!
Kudos and many thanks for putting together this women’s footie blog. Keep up the good work.
Nominted you for best soccer blog on USsoccer.com. You certainly would deserve it if you win. Good luck!
Hi,
What are your thoughts about Women’s Soccer writers networking? We could share thoughts, articles and in some cases promote causes to better the sport. Please pass this along to others you may know.
Cheers,
Neil
btw you email wasn’t working
Jenna, you are my salvation for women’s soccer. Have you considered selling t-shirts? I wish to sing your praises as I walk about town.
Keep up the good work
Jenna, I am a typical male soccer fan, which means I watch women’s soccer only during the world cup. But I’m begining to appreciate the distaff game more (are you pissed that I used that word?) after watching Marta play regularly in Los Angeles and reading your smart , insightful blog. Complimenti… and keep up the fine WWC coverage, as I am hooked now.
Is there online streaming for WPS? I really want to see the Magicjack game this evening.
Go Women Athletes!
Jenna,
Congrats on your soccer blog/website. You are helping to grow the game!! I’ve been a big supporter for the growth of women’s soccer for over 20 years. I’m an expert on TITLE IX, and have seen the marvelous outcomes of girls soccer growth. But there are still many TITLE IX violations across the country. Read the article in the Portland Tribune from the other day. You might get a better idea of how far girls soccer still needs to go to become equal across the country, not because of men’s soccer, but because of dinosaur like principals, athletic directors, and school boards.
Jenna, I enjoy your blog when I get a chance to read it. I read something you wrote over a year ago about proper soccer etiquette that I wanted to share with some friends, but am having a hard time finding it here. Can you help?
Hi there,
Do you think it’s worth forwarding, and if so, who to?
31/7 3:15AM
Arghhhhh!
So I got hooked to women’s soccer after the world cup. Actually it happened after the Brazil/USA game in the quarter finals.
And shamedly, now I am a grenzenlos
*** sorry, got distracted for a moment, we just scored a goal
Wambach I love you!!!111 ***
Back to the ranting:
So I am a wagonist, didn’t really follow the women’s game before.
I vaguely remember seeing a game once, and it was actually embarrassing: a lot of misses, and no technique with handling the ball or even reaching it sometimes.
I do love football – I have a season ticket for my local team for the last 4 seasons, I am also a fan of ManU, even went to a game once, and I am a fan of the UK team.
For most people I know I am a football fan(atic), even a bit of an expert. Definitely went to more games than most of them.
And now we reach this point of time, when I suddenly fell for the US team.
By the time of the final, I was as pumped up as can be, saw my share of clips from both interviews and former games, and after the game I can truly say I am a new fan.
I found out about the WPS, and trying not to mock the only-6-groups league, and especially the fact the it continued to run during the world cup without a significant part of the players, I decided to try and follow it.
After all, it seems like the best opportunity to watch my new Rooney, Abby Wambach.
The situation now, from what I gathered, is as follows:
There is one broadcast each week, by FOX sports.
The rest of the games are not, even after current increased popularity.
As I mentioned before, I am a fan of a local group here. we are now in the 4th league, last year were in the 5th league, year before on the 6th league.
So I guess I know what poor tv coverage is, actually poor coverage in general.
However, what we do have is:
live coverage of the game by several live score sites.
live coverage from the twitter account of the team.
After the game – a detailed summary on the fans forum and the group’s site.
And the main thing – a highlights video!
I actually went to most games, so the video was just another chance to see the games, but when I was abroad it was nice to be able to still be updated.
Here is the thing – I read some article about the fact that most new interest in the women’s game is actually an interest in the
**** Wambach the king! goal and assist!!! ****
an interest in the pretty players, I was saying.
Well, that’s probably true, but I can tell you that now, when I look for information for my new group the magicjack, I can find only old videos, and the only new news are mostly interviews about the world cup with Solo. The football news are short and just giving the score and the attendance details.
So while I am waiting for someone to upload the highlights from last game (which was 3 days ago!), the only information I can look at is just stuff that is not really related to the game.
I just think about what I usually do after a United game – I look for highlights, usually see an interview of two from after the game, and that’s it. I have enough to feed me until the next game.
I also read in some blogs/the official site about the game, but that’s less frequent.
However, now I have nothing, apart from live updates during the game, which is what I am following right now.
Didn’t find any fan site with a review of the game, didn’t see any detailed review on the group’s site. and most important of all – I am missing my highlights video!
So please, whoever has anything to do with it, use the new interest and give me (or us?) some solid football information. With all due respect to red-carpet interviews and nike’s commercials, what I really want is watch football, and if that’s missing, then all of the stuff around it is just pointless.
Noa.
@Noa,
Very well said on many points. I ‘ve also been hankering for quality updates analysis, post WWC. I happily stumbled on AWK site just recently, which I dare say, has been doing great reporting on US womens soccer since its inception right through to this time of grand women’s soccer “bandwagonism”. The latter a welcome phenomenon for the long haul, me hopes. But, I see we are still missing out on those highlights and clips, anon. Unfortunately, telecasting/webstreaming has yet to evolve for even men’s US Soccer too, to the European media levels.
Yet, I hope in the not- too- distant future AWK and her friends will catch on fast and become leaders in this endeavor to televise the (r)evolution of mediaspace/ blogsites dedicated 24/7, to give fans quality feed of Wambach, WPS, USWNT, and any other women’s soccer banter worths its while….. till the next game.
For now Noa, hopefully, you will get to see Wambach and magicJack on FOXSOCCER in the approaching WPS playoffs from yonder? Or some tips on how women’s soccer can become most the positively ultimate neuro-sensory feed(back) for this Age.
Ps. How is women’s soccer going post- World cup. I just read that England has formed a new league. It would be interesting to hear your views ( if this blogspace permits). Is there is a female Rooney equivalent who captures the European fan(atic) imagination – Thanks !
Jenna,
I’ve only just discovered your awesome postings and (contributors alike). Post world cup, I’ve been furiously hunting for smart news on post- WWC happenings on and off the pitch. (For one, I hope WPS does keep its new initiates (and prospective investors) focused on the ball to the future….
Yours is smart reporting, news gathering and analysis. I browsed through some comments and came across bloggers from yesteryear and recently. One blogger was still searching for: ” an article you wrote over a year ago about proper soccer etiquette”; another had a discourse about the nay doers of Title IX enforcement in the present day, and a discerning parent blogger commending you on the quality of your blog to enhance juniors soccer IQ, to quote a few, attest to the sustainability of this blogspace as a substantive repository for thinking minds and women’s soccer rooters.
Going down memory lane once again, the Germany showcase of the beautiful game from a feminista perspective, I’d like to think that 2011 is the take off year of a high returns brand- financially,(especially for the players as collective), and as a etiquette savoring enterprise that continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Proper manners (expected of all) can only be good for the game. Besides, one can certainly market sheer soccer prowess feminista, elegance and etiquette into the Greatness formulae.
So here’s to the longevity of your write –ups and women’s soccer windfall. To become permanent perspectives on local and global cultural and media map!
Just love your blog. Tremendous work. Well done. We need to get Women’s Soccer on ESPN!!!
Great site!
I found your site during all the WWC hoopla — and now am addicted. Your coverage of women’s soccer is so superior to any of the “heavyweight” sports sites — SI, ESPN, etc. Keep up the good work!
Love the website, and follow regularly. Have a question that I thought perhaps you could/would answer. I’m trying to find out what time the College Cup games are on Friday 12/2. After checking all over on the NCAA site and on Kennesaw State’s site, I still can’t figure this out. I have to fly that day for work, and am trying to arrange my schedule so I can see these games which are usually televised (yeah, my kids think I’m crazy obsessed!) Maybe there are some other fans who’d love to plan their day as well -
5:00 PM EST and 7:30 PM EST for the semi-finals on Friday. Be advised that the time on the second game may change depending on if the first match goes into extra-time/penalties.
Awesome analysis by Chris Henderson of the women’s college game! We all appreciate the time you give, Chris, in watching the games and providing valuable insight. No fluff here!
Jenna/ Chris,
Bravo ! to this great blog for the multi-faceted coverage on womens soccer.
By a quantum leap backwards, in contrast, I’m rather perplexed by the lack of TV media viewing options for US women soccer fans, in spite of the synergistic buzz generated at WWC. Or was it simply a passing fad?
Why are US Women’s National Team matches still in the shadows with TV media, yet the men’s matches receive seemingly guaranteed TV coverage ? Are USWNT and USMNT not under the same governing body ? As of now, the US/Sweden match on November 19 in Phoenix, Arizona, will not be televised.
Fans are left scouring the net for any news to the contrary- still in the dark. Who decides to televise/ webstream a live match ? Will AWK link into coverage on the Internet, should that arise ?
Keep up your great blog, reporting on womens soccer!
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Hey, I’m really digging this blog. I just wanted to drop a video on you that I did for Duke during my work study. Jennifer Doyle, a UC-Riverside professor, gave an explosive talk on international women’s soccer and the media’s portrayal of female athletes as well. She also pays special homage to Brazilian superstar, Marta Vieira da Silva! Do check it out. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u02naFuQUDQ
AWK is really outstanding; great coverage of everything, in depth and well written. I’ve been reading it so much at work the IT gnomes just blocked it!
Do you know of anybody who gives any kind of coverage to division 2 college play?
Keep up the great work
Jenna / Chris,
AWK is fantastic. Plain and simple, just great work.
Keep it up, we are here and we appreciate the comprehensive coverage and attention to the women’s game.
Plainly and simply, you folks do the best job of covering women’s pro and college soccer in the U.S. It’s amazing what intelligence, dedication, and hard work can do. Thanks for making this wondrous 2012 season even more interesting than it already was.
A thought while watching the (actually televised) final U.S.-China series: At one point, one of the commentators was asked which non-WNT players are most likely to get on the team in 2013. I was really surprised with the lack of names she could think of. Not even Ali Krieger!
I hope AWK will pose that question to its readers and that we could have a forum about who could and/or should make the WNT roster this year. Maybe think of it as advice column for Tom Sermanni.
Thanks again.