Tuesday's Column: The New (Inter) face of Women's Soccer
The Sol and Washington Freedom open the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer season Sunday at Home Depot Center.
I took a look at the league and the grass roots marketing strategy being employed in this week's column.
Updated: BTW, today is Shannon Boxx Day in the city of Torrance; the Sol midfielder, who grew up in Torrance, will be honored at tonight's City Council meeting, which begins at 7 o'clock at City Hall, 3031 Torrance Blvd.
Coincidentally, the South High girls team, which Boxxy played for between 1991 and 1995, will also receive a certificate of recognition tonight for winning the CIF-SS Division 5 Championship. How's that for motivation?
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
"It's very reasonable - it's $10 a ticket," Sol coach Abner Rogers said. "I can't think of another sport where you can pay $10 and see the best players in the world."
I'm not sure what he is talking about... the cheapest seats (endline) are $20 for the game. I guess she must be refering to season tickets... but you aren't spending $10 on season tickets... you can spend $10/game for season tickets.
I thought about going to the game, but at $40 for two tickets and $15 for parking... I decided to pass.
Nick replies: I believe Rogers was talking about the family pack of four tickets that costs $49. My apologies, I should have been more explicit