San Francisco Business Times: Bay Area Could Score Women’s Pro Soccer

by Amanda on July 21, 2008

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Story by Eric Young of the San Francisco Business Times. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/07/21/story11.html

Kucirek, co-founder of online real estate brokerage ZipRealty Inc., hopes to operate a Bay Area franchise of the Women’s Professional Soccer league scheduled to begin play in spring 2009.

Kucirek has lined up about one-third of the $3 million he needs to buy a franchise and cover other startup costs. He’s in discussions with two universities — California State University, East Bay and Santa Clara University — to try to secure a deal for a home field. The Piedmont resident has been working full-time since March to line up additional investors, anxious to take part in a venture that is picking up where a previous women’s pro league failed.

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