Category Archives: Marta

Systems only start the game

August 26, 2010 – 4:48 pm

All coaches, from Tony DiCicco in Boston to Paul Riley in Philly and Brian Boswell at Ajax, see the game differently and will set up their teams to reflect their ideas of how football should be played. But one thing that is common to all successful teams is the discipline side of things in terms [...]

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Nogueira defending Riley is a mismatch

August 24, 2010 – 5:15 pm

Contrary to what my friend Charlie Naimo believes, it was not bad luck or poor officiating that the Red Stars lost 3:2 to FC Gold Pride last weekend. And it was not bad luck that they finished 6th and failed to make playoffs in 2009 and again this season as I write may finish 6th [...]

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From Pitch Invasion

December 24, 2009 – 4:48 pm

From PitchInvasion.net:
“So Messi won the FIFA Men’s Player of the Year Award, and Marta won the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year Award, and no-one was surprised. But should we have been? There’s enough out there about Messi, so let’s look at Marta and the women’s award for a moment. Shek Borkowski, former Indiana FC [...]

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FIFA demonstrates its ignorance of women’s football

December 8, 2009 – 5:22 pm

Doing little research and demonstrating its ignorance of women’s football, FIFA announced a list of 5 contenders for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year award.
The list clearly demonstrates the influence that Marta’s and Cristiane’s agent Fabiano Farah has in the halls of FIFA, and how little national team coaches participating in voting [...]

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Three players I would love to have in my team

November 19, 2009 – 6:36 pm

Linda Bresonik
I was asked last week what three players I would like to have in my team. Here they are.
For me, Linda Bresonik (GER, pictured) is the most complete and most versatile player in the world. She can play anywhere on the field, is technically and tactically very good, and has a very strong physical [...]

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