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The Washington
Freedom, Washington's new women's professional soccer team, announced the
schedule for its kick-off season. The Freedom's schedule includes
the inaugural game for the entire league - the Women 's United Soccer Association
(W*USA). That game takes place at the RFK Stadium on Saturday, April
14, 2001 at 2 PM. It will be nationally televised by TNT.
The
Freedom is a charter member and marquee team of the W*USA, the world's
premiere women's professional soccer league. The league, which was
announced last February, is made up of eight teams (Atlanta, Bay Area,
Boston, Carolina, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington, D.C.)
and is composed of all the players from the United States' 1999 World Cup
championship team.
Mia Hamm
The Freedom roster
boosts superstar Mia Hamm, the world's all-time
leading scorer -- men or women, Siri Mullinix
and Michelle French of the 2000 Olympic team and Brazilian stars Roseli
and Pretinha.
The league's season
runs from April 14 through the end of August. The Freedom takes on
the Bay Area CyberRays at RFK for the April 14 inaugural game. The CyberRays
roster includes Hamm's 1999 World Cup teammate Brandi Chastain, whose penalty
kick clinched the championship for the United States in the 1999 Women's
World Cup final against China, as well as Tisha Venturini and two other
Brazilian stars, Sissi and Katia. The Freedom closes out the regular
season on August 11 in DC against the New York Power.
