Hey everybody,

Amanda here – Web Coordinator at the WPS league office. As you probably know by now, WPS has discontinued operations of the Los Angeles Sol, so I’m posting this to let you know the online plans for the Dispersal Draft and the future of the LA website and social media outlets.

The Dispersal Draft begins at 1pm ET / 10am PT tomorrow, Thu Feb 4, 2010. Here are the details: http://fancorner.womensprosoccer.com/profiles/blogs/dispersal-draft-details. We’ll be tweeting the results out via Twitter @womensprosoccer immediately following the conclusion of the Draft. Teams will then be promoting their new draftees in their local markets. An official League press release will be drafted and sent out tomorrow afternoon.

As soon as possible after the Draft has concluded, we plan to move all the players profiles to their new teams’ websites/rosters. It will probably take a bit for each team’s web managers to get the pages updated with info, layout and pics, so please if you could be patient with this process it would be much appreciated.

The LA Sol website (which can be accessed at http://www.womensprosoccer.com/la or http://www.losangelessol.com) will continue to stay up through the middle of next week sometime (probably the 10th), so if you’d like to save or archive any of that information please note your time frame to do so. When we push the button, all the Sol content will be taken down so I just want to make sure you know that. All pages that previously existed at http://www.womensprosoccer/la will redirect to the league’s press release here: WPS discontinues operations of Los Angeles Sol.

In terms of the Sol’s social media sites, here’s the scoop. For now, we want to keep a place where fans can find other supporters with whom they can express their feelings, support their favorite players as they join new rosters, and perhaps rally to support another ownership group in LA for 2011 and beyond. I’m not saying this social media solution is permanent, but for now we’re playing it by ear to see if and how people are using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and decide from there.

The two social media pages that will be deactivated in short order, however, are MySpace and the LA Sol Fan Corner profile, so if you used these pages to get your Sol news, I recommend migrating over to Facebook or Twitter pretty quickly. We do maintain a group page here at the WPS Fan Corner, http://fancorner.womensprosoccer.com/group/losangeles, where I’ll do my best to continue posting any pertinent updates and information.

If there’s an online space that I haven’t addressed here, please feel free to let me know here in the comments or send me an email or message on Fan Corner. Believe me, this is a tough blog post to have to write. But I’d rather be as up front as possible with you all and let you know what’s happening – you’ve been incredibly respectful and supportive through this process, which I know is not easy, so a sincere thank you for that.

Best,
Amanda
WPS Web Coordinator