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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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Espihir

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

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

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.
giampiero

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

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. ;-)
ira

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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