Brazil's Marta, England's Smith top WPS All-StarsBrazilian star Marta and England's Kelly Smith Kelly Smith (born 29 October 1978 in Watford) is an English football player who currently plays in England for Arsenal Ladies. Previously, she was the only English player to play in the Women's United Soccer Association, the former professional women's league in the United States. were among the Women's Professional Soccer All-Star 11 named Tuesday to face Swedish champions Umea IK in the US league's All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games on August 30. Four Americans and seven international players were voted to the team in balloting split evenly between media, players, coaches and supporters. Marta led the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Sol to the regular-season crown and a berth in the WPS See Windows Printing System and Workplace Shell. (unit) wps - (Obsolete) Words per second (mostly used for Telex and TWX transmission). championship game and was joined in the lineup by teammates Karina LeBlanc of Canada at goalkeeper, US midfielder Shannon Boxx Shannon Leigh Boxx (born on June 29 1977 in Fontana, California) is a defensive midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team. She attended the University of Notre Dame and played on their 1995 NCAA championship team (along with future national team member and French midfielder Camille Abily. England's Smith, Alex Scott and Eniola Aluko and France's Sonia Bompastor completed the global honorees, joined by Americans Lori Chalupny, Amy LePeilbet and Tina Ellertson. Players selected Los Angeles Sol coach Abner Rogers to guide the squad in the All-Star matchup at suburban St. Louis. He will help select seven other players to fill out the lineup. 
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