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Does Women's Pro Soccer Have a Future?

NPR

By Jennifer Ludden

Published November 6, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Can women's professional soccer be revived in the United States? The WUSA is losing major stars to retirement, but players are touring to boost support for a revived 2005 season. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and Tandaleya Wilder, host of the online sports show "She Got Game."

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Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.

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