| Event | Women's Professional Soccer All-Star Game | ||||||
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| Date | August 30, 2009 | ||||||
| Venue | Soccer Park Fenton, Missouri | ||||||
| Referee | Sandra Serafini | ||||||
| Attendance | 4,115 | ||||||
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The2009 Women's Professional Soccer All-Star Game was the firstWPS All-Star Game. In a format similar to that of recentall-star games inMajor League Soccer, the WPS All-Stars playedSwedish club powerhouseUmeå IK on August 30, 2009, eight days after the league'schampionship game. The WPS All-Stars defeated their guests 4–2.
WPS awarded the 2009 All-Star Game toSt. Louis, Missouri in a press release on June 25, 2009. The venue wasAnheuser-Busch Center in the suburb ofFenton, home ofSaint Louis Athletica.
St. Louis has such a rich soccer tradition and great fans that we thought it would make for a terrific location – right in the heart of America – for our first WPS All-Star Game.
— Tonya Antonucci
Founded in 1917, Umeå IK is currently one of the premier women's clubs in Europe. They have won sixDamallsvenskan titles, and won theUEFA Women's Champions League twice, appearing in the finals five times in the eight years since the competition's founding. Umeå was also the club thatMarta played for before moving to theLos Angeles Sol.
Eleven of the eighteen WPS All-Stars were chosen by vote. 25% of the total vote came from fans voting online, 25% from media, 25% from coaches (who were prohibited from voting for their team's players), and 25% from players. The results of the voting were released on August 4 at 5PM ET.
Over 25,000 fan votes were cast, with the top three fan picks beingHope Solo,Lori Chalupny, andShannon Boxx. Despite leading the fan voting, Solo did not make the Starting XI.Marta was the overall top vote-getter, being named on the ballots of all eligible coaches, collecting 94% of the media vote, and finishing second in the player vote and fourth in the fan vote.
Multiple players who were selected to the Starting XI were playing for their national teams in theUEFA Women's Euro 2009 at the time of the All-Star game. As such, their spots on the field were taken by the next runners-up in the voting for their respective positions.
The remaining seven players on the All-Star team were selected byAbner Rogers (head coach for theLos Angeles Sol), who was chosen by a vote of all WPS players to be the WPS All-Star coach, and Commissioner Tonya Antonucci.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Bold indicates Starting XI fromvoting results
* Indicates Starting XI players who were on national team duty in Europe at gametime
Italic indicates runners-upreplacing Starting XI players on European national team duty - Tiffeny Milbrett replaced Formiga
Regular typeface indicates "At Large" playerselections
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Squad announcement[permanent dead link]
* Due to Umeå also missing players for the European championships, these WPS players played for their former club.
WPS All-Stars | 4 - 2 |  Umeå IK |
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Lilly 24'Marta 40'Cristiane  45+'Sinclair 47' 49' | Boxscore | Edlund 2' Jacobsson 16'Elaine 57' |
Woman of the Match: |
| WPS | Umeå | |
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| Goals scored | 4 | 2 |
| Total shots | 28 | 11 |
| Shots on target | 16 | 7 |
| Total Saves | 5 | 11 |
| Fouls | 5 | 8 |
| Offsides | 4 | 4 |
| Corner kicks | 9 | 6 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
