I’m sure you heard today that a new women’s pro soccer league, Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS), announced the home openers of its inaugural season in ‘09. The league, which is a redo of the failed WUSA, kicks off March 29 with teams in cities like L.A., Chicago and DC.

(Professional? Yes. Soccer? No.)

So how will the league do? The SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE gives us a clue, reporting in an Op-Ed that the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S.team played world soccer power China last Saturday at L.A.’s Home Depot Center.

Attendance: 3,619.

The last time China played the U.S. women’s team in SoCal, the game drew 90, 185 fans at the Rose Bowl in 1999. And the most recent appearance of the women’s team at the Home Depot Center, in 2004, drew 15,589.

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