I have watched and followed Sydney Leroux’s progress during the last two years.
At the 2008 FIFA U20 World Cup in Chile, Leroux won the Golden Ball Award as the tournament’s top player.
Fast forward to 2010 and it is difficult not to notice that Leroux’s progress had halted. There are no doubts she has one strength [...]
For European readers of this blog here are some non European players to watch in Germany next week. This list does not include Ghana and Nigeria players.
Yoreli Rincon – Columbia
Ingrid Vidal – Columbia
Stephany Mayor – Mexico
Katherine Alvarado – Costa Rica
Raquel Rodriguez – Costa Rica
Mana Iwabuchi – Japan
Annalie Longo – New Zealand
Ho Un-Byol – DPR [...]
I have received flak from readers of this blog for stating in THIS INTERVIEW that “Right now despite the fact that WPS is based on athleticism and exciting disorganization, there still is plenty of individual talent… and I give WPS the edge.”
One reader wrote “Shek, i think it’s a case of [...]
Kurochkina (3) and Barbashina scored.
RUSSIAN SUPREME LEAGUE
P
W
T
L
PTS
GF-GA
+/-
Rossiyanka
14
13
0
1
39
50-10
+40
Zvezda-2005
15
10
0
5
30
36-19
+17
Izmailovo
12
8
1
3
25
20-13
+7
Energia
14
7
2
5
23
35-18
+17
Ryazan
15
5
0
10
15
19-33
-14
UOR Zezda
13
2
1
10
7
10-40
-30
Kubanochka
13
1
0
12
3
5-40
-35
Barbashina, Kurochkina and Dyachkova scored.
Our midfielder Valya Savchenkova has returned to us from national team duty with an injury she sustained last week. I am very disappointed with the way the Russian Football Union handled Savchenkova’s injury.
The Russian Federation, for unknown reasons, has decided to keep Savchenkova’s injury secret from us. She came back to Zvezda, the next day [...]
With more and more American female players making Europe their destination I have heard of and have seen some troubling situations when it comes to agreements and understandings. As women’s football in Europe grows, bigger resources are available. Yet, in many countries American players are stereotyped as cheap, eager, naive and willing to take any [...]
Two things today.
Ukraine traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina and comfortably beat the hosts 5:0. Dasha Apamaschenko scored twice and Vera Djatel added one goal for Ukraine which sits third in Group 4. To say that this match was difficult for Anatoliy Kutsev’s team would be exaggeration.
I believe it was irresponsible to play both for nearly 90 minutes [...]
Petra Hogewoning
Not such a good week as a defeat to Izmailovo mean we head into the international break wondering what could have been.
The game against Izmailovo was quite simply ‘one of those days’. We did everything but score, and their keeper has had one of those inspired games.
That said we acknowledge it’s [...]
Today John Lewandowski of PAwatercooler wrote this in a response to my post:
“The World Cup is every 4 years. That means that the American women won the third most recent World Cup. Yep, it was 11 years ago, and nobody in the US cared, because soccer is a game for teenage [...]
