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Date Posted: 20:35:18 09/04/03 Thu
In reply to:
Noah
's message, "Re: re:Bob Messing" on 17:58:33 09/04/03 Thu
>No More Messing Around; She's Headed for Home
>
>[Women's World Cup logo] By Amy Shipley
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Monday, July 12, 1999; Page D4
>
>LOS ANGELES, July 11 ? After running a tournament that
>lured more than 658,000 fans to women's soccer games,
>Women's World Cup President and CEO Marla Messing says
>the only running she will do in the coming weeks is on
>local sidewalks. And, she said, she plans to turn her
>attention from filling stadiums nationwide to bringing
>a much smaller crowd together: her family.
>
>Messing led the Women's World Cup effort for three
>years and also directed the marketing effort for the
>1994 men's World Cup, which sold 3.5 million tickets
>for games throughout the United States. With the
>conclusion of this three-week tournament Saturday,
>Messing said she plans to duck out of the spotlight ?
>and into her own house in Brentwood, Calif.
>
>The tournament, which drew record-breaking crowds,
>ended with the U.S. team's victory over China in
>Saturday's championship match in front of 90,185 at
>the Rose Bowl. That was the largest crowd to attend a
>women's sporting event.
>
>Though Messing has been mentioned as a possible
>successor to Major League Soccer Commissioner Doug
>Logan, she said her most ambitious goal for the coming
>months is to run the New York City marathon for the
>first time. And her most serious ambition is to get
>reacquainted with her husband, Brett, and daughters
>Natalie, 2, and Samantha, who will turn 1 in August.
>
>"Working and having a family, it's a lot," Messing
>said. "I was able to do it because my job was finite.
>It had an end in sight. It's a challenge to have a
>family and give them everything they need, when you
>have a job as demanding as this. I couldn't do this
>again if it was a permanent position. These jobs are
>sprints, not marathons. You sacrifice."
>
>Messing's work ethic is such that she worked on the
>business plan for the Women's World Cup until the very
>day she gave birth to Samantha ? who was born on a
>Thursday night late last summer. Messing went back to
>work the next week, albeit from a home office.
>
>Brett Messing, a Harvard law school graduate and
>chairman of his own company in Santa Monica, often
>works the same 12-hour days as his wife. The two have
>employed a live-in nanny to take care of their
>children.
>
>"We're very excited about having her back," he said.
>"I don't think Marla's had a day off since February
>1st. It's been every single weekend, seven days a
>week. . . . I hope she does nothing for a while.
>Samantha and Natalie and I voted, and we voted for
>nothing."
>
>After attending law school at the University of
>Chicago, Marla Messing joined Latham & Watkins in Los
>Angeles, where she worked under Alan Rothenberg, the
>former president of the U.S. Soccer Federation who ran
>the 1994 men's World Cup. She was acclaimed for her
>work on that tournament, which churned out about $70
>million in profits.
>
>When all the accounting is complete, the Women's World
>Cup is expected to have generated a surplus of from $2
>million to $7 million. In fact, Messing said,
>organizers intended for the tournament merely to break
>even, as they kept pouring extra money back into it to
>make it a first-class event.
>
>Because of the surplus, Messing told the 20 U.S.
>players today they had earned a $750,000 team bonus
>for their exceptional work ? as players and promoters
>? during the tournament. The other profits will go to
>the U.S. Soccer Foundation.
>
>Messing said she plans to finish the tournament's
>bookkeeping as soon as possible and get on with her
>extended vacation.
>
>"Apparently there are bets on how long it will be
>before I will go back to work," Messing said. "I'm
>sure it will be a shock to my system to have free days
>seven days a week. I don't know how long it's going to
>last, but I'm going to give it a try."
>
>© Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company
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>>>Yes, this is her family.
>>
>>how do you know her mothers maiden name, her
>>sister-in-laws name and her nieces names?
thank you noah this was not supposed to piss you off if it did i'm sorry. i am a big debra messing fan and i read a lot of articles about her and the only thing i read about her family is that her brother brett is a stockbroker and whatever her parents do or have done
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