Two Goals From Marta Highlight Inventive If Overshadowed Women’s Professional Soccer All-Star Game

The 5-2 result, like most all-star game final scores, was less important that the event’s taking place, but for Women’s Professional Soccer, Wednesday’ All-Star Game in Kennesaw, Georgia was also a chance to experiment with a format that could invigorate life into the same, dull, all-star format that seems to be mimicked in each league dotting the North American sporting landscape.

Dividing teams by conference or league last its last bit of interest when baseball made “American” and “National” nothing more than anachronistic adjectives, and while dividing teams by map lines has been tried (think U.S./North America versus the world), there has been little innovation brought to the process of segregating all-stars into two teams.