KC Current win first game in stadium built solely for women’s sport

The Kansas City Current defeated the Portland Thorns 5-4 to win their season-opener and the first-ever game in their new 11,500-seat CPKC Stadium, the first built specifically for a women’s professional sports team. Vanessa DiBernardo scored a brace for the Current, with goals from Beatriz Zaneratto Joao, Kristen Hamilton, and Alexandra Pfeiffer clinching the win in front of a cheering …

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The ACL injury crisis in women’s soccer

Excitement is in the air as the Women’s World Cup is just over six weeks away, but many of the sport’s biggest stars will be missing out due to ACL injuries, which have reached a crisis level in women’s soccer. More studies on female athletes are needed (in fact, that’s one of the main problems in addressing the crisis) but …

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