Boston Breakers fold after ownership deal falls through

A new ownership deal that could have kept the Boston Breakers local but moved them down to the Union Point land development in Weymouth has fallen apart, and with no new ownership able to step in on such short notice, the team will fold. The players were informed via e-mail today, a source close to the team confirmed. The Breakers have been one of the longest continuously-operating women’s soccer teams in the United States, originally competing in WUSA, then WPS, WPSL Elite, and finally NWSL for the past five years.

Presumably while negotiations were ongoing, president of soccer operations Lee Billiard followed the Union Point twitter; meanwhile, the Union Point group had already spoken…