Headline: More to come Overall: Still hoping for more to come. Because day 2 did also not yet show the big step forward. Maybe for some. But some two steps forward and others two back again doesnt make for big progress of the NWSL generally. The North Carolina Courage confirmed their leading position with yet another […]
Category: NWSL(US)
Preview NWSL 2017 part2
Our preview is consisting of 2 parts: Part1: Overall, introduction, pre-season proceedings Part2: after day1: season preview based on day1. We like to use more time than 140 and thinking it over several times for a season preview. For that reason we have gone to wait until day1 was played. To reduce the level of […]
Preview NWSL 2017 part1
Our preview is comprising of 2 parts: Part1: Overall, introduction, pre-season proceedings Part2: after day1: season preview for the teams in more depth. There are always a lot of previews at the start of a new season (though for women’s football mainly in the USA). Just normal that everyone is excited after the break to […]
3 questions for the US after the SheBelieves Cup
Overall Situation: The matches showed mainly that the top teams got closer yet again. Its grtting more and more like the matter of a lucky bounce who wins the games against each other. USA have lost to FIFA ranked teams no 3 and no 5. And again it was mainly the offense that disappointed with […]
2017 SheBelieves Cup: France – USA 3:0
Situation: It was the expected situation: France and the USA are the leading womens football national teams and would play it out on the last game of the SheBelieves Cup. France on 4 points would stay ahead of the USA on 3 points with at least a draw. But both had not been playing as […]
2017 SheBelieves Cup: Preview final day
What we learned so far: When 4 of the 5 top ranked teams in womens football world meet there are always some aspects to discuss. Even if it is clear that the teams would have a different focus on how the matches could help them regarding their next development steps. But there is also a […]
2017 SheBelieves Cup: England – USA 1:0
Situation: As mentioned in the preview it is always a question in all of these friendly tournaments of who takes what how serious and what are the teams aiming for. We have the same sentence here like in our first match report. In the second round the rust and jet lag should have come off. […]
2017 SheBelieves Cup: USA – Germany 1:0
Situation: As mentioned in the preview it is always a question in all of these friendly tournaments of who takes what how serious and what are the teams aiming for. France seemed to have played a 1b team against England for example. Here the bigger impact than the jet lag for Germany who seemed to […]
5 of the new faces return to the USWNT …
… from the 11 new faces who have been called up for the first time in October. We already mentioned we unfortunately have to leave the college players out because we dont know enough. Thats not nice but we would also appreciate others rather saying nothing than talking about things without too much knowing about. […]
3 points regarding the back line players for team USA (and more)
This originally started as part of the article looking at the 11 new faces coach Jill Ellis introduced to the roster for the first matches for the USA after the Olympics. We made it a separate posting as this is a different problem to solve (And there are often quite similar (or mostly even more […]