A Marta Bobblehead? Women’s Soccer Has Truly Arrived

By: Laurie | June 14th, 2009

How do you know when your sport has arrived in the bigtime? When its star player gets turned into a bobblehead. This is exactly what has happened to LA Sol’s Marta from the WPS (Women’s Professional Soccer) league. It’s a promo for their upcoming game against Chicago.

Oh, come on. You know. A bobblehead. A little plastic person with a head that bobs up and down. Exactly like the one below. Except, y’know, female. And Brazilian. And wearing the name of a sponsor on her chest which is SO not a pyramid scheme.

(Plus he probably never scored a hat trick.)



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  • ira |  June 14th, 2009 at 7:49 am

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    Huh? How does a promotion mean women’s soccer has arrived? If anything, a promotion of $30 for two tickets, a bobblehead, and a $50 ESPNZone gamecard means the women’s soccer is in trouble. Especially if you consider the WPS is in it’s first season and the average salary per player is a meager $32000.

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  • Laurie |  June 14th, 2009 at 8:17 am

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    It’s all in your definition, ira. Your points are all valid. Yet in my book, when you join the likes of Jesus, the pope, Darwin AND Mr. T, you have arrived. ;-)

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  • giampiero |  June 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am

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    I didn’t even know that we had a women’s soccer league.

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  • Kurt L |  June 14th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

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    Yeah, and MLS is such a great league with guys making $17K a year. At least you get to see the best players in the world with WPS. They can string together more than 2 passes.

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  • fg |  June 14th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

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    i would take $32000 a year to play a game for a living.

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  • Espihir |  June 15th, 2009 at 6:31 am

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    I would take that salary too! If only I were good enough…nicely done Kurt L, nicely done.

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