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The Portland Tribune
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Portland has a rich history of
women’s soccer. University of
Portland is an historic soccer
school with two women’s nation-
al championships. When Port-
land hosted the Women’s World
Cup matches in 1999 and 2003,
they were a wild success. Youth
leagues for girls around the city
are abundant.
So, when the National Wom-
en’s Soccer League was founded,
Portland was finally awarded its
first professional women’s soc-
cer side, the Portland Thorns
FC.
Thorns striker Alex Morgan
says that for women’s soccer to
sustain itself this time, it will
take a commitment from every-
one who wants to see it succeed.
“With the NWSL starting this
year and the WPS (Women’s
Professional Soc-
cer) folding just
two years ago,
people realize that
it’s going to take
r e sp o n s i b i l i t y
from all fronts to
keep this league
alive,” Morgan
says.
With out-of -
this-world talent
in the likes of Mor-
gan and former
UP striker Chris-
tine Sinclair, a fan
base that has been
ravenous for wom-
en’s soccer and an organization
that has already achieved suc-
cess with the Portland Timbers,
Portland seems like the perfect
city to carry women’s profes-
sional soccer.
“The people of Portland love
their soccer,” Thorns Chief Op-
erating Officer Mike Golub says.
The Thorns season starts Sat-
urday on the road against FC
Kansas City. Portland’s first
home match will be April 21
against the Seattle Reign FC.
Golub says season-ticket
sales have topped 7,000, and he
expects more than 11,000 people
to attend the home opener.
“After that, we’d be surprised
if we’re not averagingmore than
10,000, which would be terrific,”
Golub says.
Aspiring to be professionals
Local businesses also have
embraced the Thorns.
“The Thorns have their own
group of sponsors,” Golub says.
“Many of them are also Timbers
sponsors, but some are new
sponsors. It’s a different set of
rights. There will be a distinct
group of Thorns sponsors.”
Kells Irish Pub owner and
avid soccer fan Gerard
McAleese has spent the past few
weeks meeting several of the
Thorns players when they stop
into his restaurant for dinner.
“We’ve had them in here
quite a few times, and they’re
delightful,” McAleese says.
That makes McAleese even
more excited about his pubs
showing Thorns matches this
season.
“We’ve gotten a lot of calls al-
ready for watching the Thorns,”
McAleese says. “It’s going to be
a different crowd (from the Tim-
bers). It’s the moms and dads
bringing in kids who are playing
youth soccer. It’s a
really good soccer
crowd. It’s a big
thing if you’re a
parent and you
have wee girls.”
For those who
want a more adult
time, Kells also will
have a double-
decker bus run-
ning from the pub
to matches at Jeld-
Wen Field.
“There’s so ma-
ny women getting
together to go sup-
port their team,”
McAleese says.
Frisbie says having the new
team is inspiring Portland soc-
cer players at all levels.
“A lot of us aspire to be pro-
fessionals one day,” Frisbie
says. “So to have a professional
soccer team right here is pretty
awesome.”
The ultimate question, of
course, is can the league sustain
itself? Golub says it can. And he
says that Portland can help en-
sure that.
“This is the third iteration of
the women’s soccer league, but
we feel this one is poised to suc-
ceed and be viable,” Golub says.
“We’re really excited to be part
of this new league. We knew
that it would be successful here,
and we hoped that our success
here would help the league be
successful as a whole. So far the
response has exceeded expecta-
tions.”
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“This is a soccer
city. For them
to have a
professional
team here in the
city of Portland,
it’s going to be a
huge success.”
— Amanda Frisbie,
University of Portland
junior striker
TRIBUNE PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT
Portland’s new women’s professional soccer team, the Thorns, ran through drills Sunday morning at Jeld-Wen Field.
Goalkeeper Adelaide Gay (above) covers the net at practice, and Emilee
O’Neil (right) dribbles the ball in preparation for their season opener on the
road against Kansas City. The Thorns (below) are Portland’s first run at
professional women’s soccer.