WPS announced each team's home openers this week and if i'm reading it right, your Chicago Red Stars could be featured on national television via Fox Soccer Channel for each of its first three games.
Game 1: Chicago at St. Louis Athletica, Sunday, April 5 at Ralph Korte Stadium on the lovely campus of Southern Illinois - Edwardsville. It's a small stadium and it would be pretty cool for Local 134 and other Red Stars supporters to make the 272 mile trip down there to help the Red Stars win in our first game ever.
Game 2: Chicago at Washington Freedom, Saturday, April 4 at RFK Stadium*. 2009 will be a good year for Chicagoans in Washington. And maybe, just maybe, the first family will be on hand to cheer their hometown Red Stars on to victory. Malia is a player! And the President-elect is a soccer dad.
* i'm just guessing that the Freedom will play their home opener in the big house.
Game 3: Sky Blue FC at Chicago, April 19 at Toyota Park. The late home opener is a good thing for us. It provides extra time to sell tickets, its more likely to be a little warmer in Chicago, we get to build excitement via two televised away games and we get to come into our home opener with an unblemished 2-0 mark!
It is exciting to know the date of the opening game and i hope you've all purchased your season tickets already. We hope to make a pretty cool announcement about our season tickets before Christmas. If you haven't gotten them yet, please do so by going here. Thank you!
3 comments:
Peter-
How exciting!!! What time will the games start? Or, do we know yet?
Can't say I've had the experience, but this must be like giving birth...
Alison
The times are the ever popular "TBD"
Peter-
Just had another thought about the game in Washington D.C. Not to steal the thunder of the home team, but can't there be some kind of joint promotion crowning the Obamas as the "First Family of Soccer?"
Don't mean to take anything away from either promotional staff--just something I thought of during lunch.
Alison
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