A decade of progress
The decade was only four weeks old when Los Angeles Sol, regular-season champions of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS), and home to Marta, the world’s best player, announced they were folding. As a symbol of where the women’s game was 10 years ago it was sadly apt. The one-year-old WPS – the second attempt to establish a professional competition in the USA, the sport’s strongest nation – was already struggling. It would fold in 2012.
Across the Atlantic things were no better. UEFA had
