HOW LONG UNTIL RONALDO'S WEARING ONE?:

Terrible team names and beauties in short skirts: Women's 'soccer' gets the American treatment (Ashley Gray, 26th February 2009, Daily Mail)

How do you make women's football more attractive? Simple. Make the players wear tighter shorts.

That was once the idea of Sepp Blatter, the most powerful if not the most respected man in world football.

But while the FIFA president's comments caused uproar back in 2003, he may be interested to see what the world's best players will be wearing in the new Women's Professional Soccer league here in the United States.

The shorts may not be the skin-tight volleyball style that Blatter enjoys, but the Puma kit arguably goes one better by incorporating an optional 'wrap' (that's a mini-skirt to you and I).