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Women's Professional Soccer will live at least another year after a months-long fight between WPS administrators and team owner Dan Borislow, whose team was kicked out of the league earlier this year, according to ESPN.
The U.S. Soccer Federation, the country's governing body over the sport, sanctioned WPS to operate as a Division 1 league with only five teams in 2012. To be a considered in Division 1, the league must have at least eight teams. For this past season, U.S. Soccer sanctioned WPS to operate with six teams, but Borislow's magicJack team in South Florida folded in October, putting the entire league's destiny in jeopardy.
ESPN reports that the league needed to remain in the division partially to attract international stars like Brazil's Marta, and members of the U.S. national team such as Abby Wambach. The league launched in 2009 with seven teams, but funding for a team in St. Louis cut off, ending that team's run just weeks into the season.
The remaining teams are the Western New York Flash, the Sky Blue FC in New Jersey, the Atlanta Beat, the Boston Breakers and the Philadelphia Independence. Several potential owners are interested in starting more teams after a successful Women's World Cup last year, but new teams wouldn't be ready until 2013.
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