Julie Foudy says women's pro soccer will rise again. The soccer star tells the Guardian what went wrong with the WUSA. It sounds a lot like the ABL; she advises would-be startups, "Don't spend $50 million in your first year."

What could make a new league feasible? "Now you are seeing an environment where there is a potential for sharing infrastructure with a lot of teams"; since some MLS teams own their stadiums, "you're not paying out $50,000 a game [in rent].... You could see a combination with MLS guys, A-League [minor league] owners and independent owners. [But] I don't think it will be a WMLS."