Beat announces ticket plan, but not schedule

The Women’s Professional Soccer league rolled out its slate of home openers for the 2010 season earlier this week, with a couple of glaring exceptions.

One of them, of course, is the Atlanta Beat, which just recently announced plans to play in a yet-to-be-built facility near the Kennesaw State University campus. No timeline was put on completion, but according to The Equalizer, the Atlanta home opener will take place on an unspecified date in mid-May.

The Beat will play its inaugural game on April 10 in Philadelphia, the other expansion team coming online this spring. Here’s a diagram of the stadium seating chart, and other ticket information. The prices shown are for the entire home schedule.

Team and league officials have not indicated when they will announce more information on the Beat home opener, except that it will be after the first of the year.

• In another item of interest to women’s soccer fans, former U.S. great Michelle Akers is having to sell off some of her soccer memorabilia to repair a horse farm she operates in Cobb County. The property was waterlogged in recent flooding in the Atlanta area, and the WPS and her former national team coach, Tony DiCicco, are asking fans to lend her a helping hand.

The estimated costs are $50,000, and Akers did not have flood insurance, like many victims of the heavy rains. Here’s more on Akers’ farm, which is aimed at horse rescue.