This will be the best women's league in the world

The St. Louis group is headed by Jeff Cooper, the East Alton attorney who has been working to bring an MLS team to St. Louis and recently tried to buy that league's Salt Lake City club.
"We're building on what the old WUSA was able to put in place and looking forward to adding to that," Cooper said. "That league made some mistakes that everybody realizes. This is a much more realistic league that will start out smaller and grow into a major league, rather than trying to start as a major league. … This will be the best women's league in the world."