This is broken up into a few different categories: WPS Leftovers (U.S. players that played in WPS, not including current USWNT pool) USWNT player pool Canada/Mexico national team players Other internationals who were in WPS 2012 would be rookies in WPS (from 2012 WPS draft, and aka 2011 college seniors) Current 2013 league rookies (aka 2012 college seniors) Now, pick a team (either your favorite league team, or any one of the eight upcoming teams). What players do you want for that team? Be realistic. Don't just stack your team with nothing but stars. You don't want to break the bank. Too many stars that cost too much $$$ = disbanded team. You can't afford nothing but stars. So again, please be realistic. Build your team of 18 players (no more than 18, no less than 18): Pick 3 USWNT players (no less than 3, no more than 3. 24 / 8 teams = 3 per team) Pick 3 or 4 combined Canada/Mexico players (with at least one from each fed) Pick 1 or 2 other internationals (either from WPS, or anyone internationally within reason) Pick at least a few American citizen WPS leftovers from section #5 below. Pick the rest of your players from the crop of 2012 & 2013 rookies (be realistic for 2013). Feel free to pick a "discovery" player or 2 for your roster (who are not on these lists below) This is not a fantasy league thing. This is not intended for fantasy. Reality is intended. Just a realistic glimpse at how you think the roster(s) will look. Have fun with it. The league would welcome this kind of perception and feedback. Section #1:USWNT poolF - Alex MorganF - Abby WambachF - Sydney LerouxF - Christen PressF - Amy RodriguezMF - Lauren CheneyMF - Megan RapinoeMF - Tobin HeathMF - Carli LloydMF - Heather O'ReillyMF - Shannon BoxxMF - Meghan KlingenbergMF - Lori LindseyMF - Yael AverbuchD - Rachel BuehlerD - Amy LePielbetD - Christine RamponeD - Kelley O'HaraD - Ali KriegerD - Becky SauerbrunnD - Stephanie CoxD - Whitney EngenGK - Hope SoloGK - Jill LoydenGK - Ashlyn Harris Section #2:Canada poolF - Christine SinclairF - Melissa TancrediF - Jonelle FilignoF - Brittany TimkoMF - Kelly ParkerMF - Sophie SchmidtMF - Desiree ScottMF - Diana MathesonMF - Kaylyn KyleD - Lauren SesselmannD - Candace ChapmanD - Emily ZurrerD - Cheslea StewartD - Rhian WilkinsonD - Robyn GayleD - Carmelino MoscatoGK - Karina LeBlancGK - Erin McLeod Section #3:Mexico poolF - Veronica PerezF - Maribel DominguezF - Monica OcampoF - Stephany MayorMF - Juana LopezMF - Guadalupe WorbisMF - Dinora GarzaMF - Nayeli RangelMF - Liliana MercadoMF - Teresa NoyolaD - Kenti RoblesD - Rubi SandovalD - Alina GarciamendezD - Natalie VintiD - Luz del Rosario SaucedoD - Natalie GarciaGK - Erika Venegas Section #4:WPS InternationalsF - MartaF - Laura KalmariF - Kosovare AsllaniF - FabianaF - Laura Del RioF - Veronica BoqueteF - Karen CarneyF - Sarah WalshF - CristianeF - Lisa De VannaF - Ramona BachmanF - Holmfridur MagnusdottirF - Jessica LandstromF - Eniola AlukoF - Lianne SandersonF - Madelaine EdlundF - Lene MykjalandMF - Aya MiyamaMF - RosanaMF - DanielaMF - Caroline SegerMF - Mami YamaguchiMF - Camille AbilyMF - Kelly SmithMF - Katie ChapmanMF - Johanna RasmussenMF - Homare SawaMF - FormigaMF - ElaineD - Anita AsanteD - Faith IkidiD - Alex ScottD - Sonia BompastorD - Daphne KosterGK - Karen Bardsley Section #5:WPS (USA) LeftoversF - Danesha AdamsF - Kiki BosioF - Lindsay TarpleyF - Michelle EnyeartF - Ella MasarF - Christie WelshF - Kerri HanksF - Tasha KaiF - Jessica McDonaldF - Tiffany WeimerF - Casey NogueiraF - Megan LenczykMF - Becky EdwardsMF - Nikki WashingtonMF - Rebecca MorosMF - Kristina LarsenMF - Sarah HuffmanMF - Carolyn BlankMF - India TrotterMF - Brittany KleinMF - Beverly GoebelMF - Leslie OsborneMF - Liz BogusMF - Jen BuczkowsiMF - Allie LongMF - Maggie TomeckaMF - Joanna LohmanMF - Lyndsey PattersonMF - Angie KerrMF - Tina DiMartinoMF - Amanda CinalliMF - Lori ChalupnyMF - Kacey WhiteMF - McCall ZerboniMF - Julianne SitchMF - Sinead FarrellyMF - Keelin WintersMF - Kylie WrightMF - Amanda DacostaMF - Bianco D'AgostinoD - Elli ReedD - Heather MittsD - Marian DalmyD - Kasey MooreD - Elise WeberD - Katie LarkinD - Tina EllertsonD - Brittany BockD - Kendall FletcherD - Natalie SpilgerD - Allison FalkD - Carrie DewD - Kristi EvelandD - Kristen GraczykD - Kaley FountainD - Nikki MarshallD - Meghan SchnurD - Ali RileyD - Sara LarssonD - Jill GilbeauD - Brittany TaylorD - Cat WhitehillD - Kate MarkgrafD - Leigh Ann RobinsonD - Kia McNeillD - Kiersten DallstreamD - Jordan AngeliD - Manya MakoskiD - Alex SingerD - Kandace WilsonD - Keeley DowlingD - Stacy BishopD - Lauren FowlkesGK - Ashley PhillipsGK - Val HendersonGK - Allison LipsherGK - Alyssa NaeherGK - Nicole BarnhartGK - Allison WhitworthGK - Jenni BranamGK - Brett MaronGK - Erin Guthrie Section #6:2012 would've WPS RookiesF - Melissa HendersonF - Stephanie OchsF - Sarah HagenF - Laura HeyboerF - Krista LopezF - Courtney JonesF - Merritt MathiasF - Lindsay TaylorF - Kayla GrimsleyF - Blake MillerF - Danielle FoxhovenMF - Katy FriersonMF - Ingrid WellsMF - Camille LevinMF - Tori HusterMF - Tahni AnnisD - Toni PressleyD - Melinda MercadoGK - Bianca HenningerGK - Jillian Mastroianni Section #7:2013 Current RookiesF - Tiffany McCartyF - Caroline MillerF - Carlee PayneF - Tiffany CameronF - Victoria DiMartinoF - Tishia JewellMF - Amber BrooksMF - Christine NairnMF - Kristen MewisMF - Erika TymrakMF - Zakiya BywatersMF - Jessica PriceMF - Bri RodriguezMF - Ranee PremjiMF - Maria LubranoMF - Casey ShortMF - Kristen MeierMF - Holly KingMF - Jessica RingwoodMF - Chelsea ClineMF - Mariah NogueiraD - Lindsi CutshallD - Ines JaurenaD - Rachel QuonD - Bry McCarthyD - Tiana BrockwayD - Kat WilliamsonGK - Adrianna FranchGK - Erin McNulty
It's funny you posted this, I've been working on assembling a "fantasy team" on paper already just for kicks. Glad you posted more formal parameters. Give me a moment.
She retired from the Australian national team. I thought she was leaving the window open to play in the Australian W-League still. If so, I included her as a possible option here, but doubtful she'd return to the U.S.
Aight here's what I got. Lemme know how yall feel about it. F Melissa Henderson (S6) F Christine Sinclair (CWNT) F Victoria Dimartino (S7) F Jonelle Filigno (CWNT) MF Megan Rapinoe (USWNT) MF Camille Levin (S6) MF Bianca D'Agostino (S6) MF Lori Chalupny (S6) MF Tsung Shu-O (Int) MF Tiffany Weimer (S5) D Lauren Sesselmann (CWNT) D Stephanie Cox (USWNT) D Cat Whitehill (S5) D Ciara Mccormack (added, other North American) D Rubi Sandoval (MWNT) D Leanne Champ (Int) GK Hope Solo (USWNT) GK Jillian Mastroianni (S6)
Cool team. I like it. What team (city) is this for, out of the 8 teams in the new league? Portland? Seattle? some other team?
>Now, pick a team (either your favorite league team, or any one of the eight upcoming teams). Derp, missed this part. Didn't really have a particular one in mind. I live in Calgary so all these places might as well be the moon.
Is Jordan Angeli still having a rough time with her injury? Seems like, at least over Twitter, she was taking a while and a half to heal.
Filigno and Stewart are the CNT players still in school. Moscato looks to be a full time coach, if I'm not mistaken. Has anyone heard about Kelly Parker?
Here is mine, and if our teams played against each other, it would go to extra time in the playoffs. Chicago Red Stars (new look Chi-team) (the team of black&blue, skill, and speed) F - Christen Press (USWNT fed paid player) F - Veronica Perez (Mexico fed paid player) F- Lisa De Vanna (international -Australia - super sub) F - Melissa Tancredi (Canada fed paid player, 5'9") ------------------------- MF - Kristen Mewis (S7 - 2013 rookie - Boston College) (attacking midfielder) MF - Tobin Heath (USWNT fed paid player) MF - Becky Edwards (S5 - WPS leftover) MF - Joanna Lohman (S5 - WPS leftover) MF - Kristen Van De Ven (international - Netherlands) MF - Katy Frierson (S6 - 2012 rookie - Auburn) ------------------------- D - Ali Riley (New Zealand, S5 - WPS leftover, doesn't count as an international) D - Candace Chapman (Canada fed paid player) D - Whitney Engen (USWNT fed paid player) D - Alina Garciamendez (Mexico fed paid player) D - Carrie Dew (S5 - WPS leftover) D - Merritt Mathias (S6 - 2012 rookie - Texas A&M (convert from forward to defender) ------------------------- GK - Adrianna Franch (S7 - 2013 rookie - Oklahoma State) GK - Val Henderson (S5 - WPS leftover) ------------------------- MF - Necib (I hold the rights to Necib. Hopefully she'll come over sometime in mid-season) Becky Edwards, Whitney Engen, Candace Chapman, and Ali Riley, back together again. Just like in 2011, but with a different team. This is President Obama'a team. We will give him season tickets to cheer on his Red Stars. We hope he comes to many games with Speaker John Boehner. That would be fantastic publicity and awareness for the league. Two midwest guys that love their midwest women's soccer. But you have to admit. This is a playoff team above (well, on paper).
Press is actually a personal favorite of mine, but I'm not banking on her leaving Goteborg. I'd like it if she did, though. You might be onto something with Tancredi (ready-made enforcer in case people decide to play rough with Press) and Heath (she's definitely not paid enough attention too). Necib would be quite a steal. I think you're onto something here, dude.
Yeah, I realize it'll be tough to convince Necib to come over to the U.S. She would have to be my highest paid player, as Press, Heath, Engen, Tancredi, Chapman, Perez, and Garciamendez would all be fed paid players (no pennies out of my pocket). However, I'm not sure I could afford Necib, Lisa De Vanna, and Ali Riley. Frierson, Mathias, and Franch will be right around minimum salary, since they're so young. Dew won't cost too much. I think I can get Edwards for cheaper than her market value, since she'll want to play with Engen, Chapman, and Riley again. Mewis would be my first round draft pick in the rookie draft (#2 overall pick in the first round), so she'll be a rookie, but a higher paid rookie of course.
Sending out scouts to watch Vanessa DiBernardo in her senior year at Illinois next year. She's on our radar for our first round pick in the 2014 rookie draft. She also wants to play for Chicago. Possibly a great fit. We also have an interesting prospect that is coming out to one of our amateur tryout sessions. She may have a chance to be on our "developmental" player list Gotta keep the male fan base in Chicago happy, and the beer sales up at Toyota Park ..........
If CHI doesn't keep a large number of the players it's had over the past two years, I'll be rather surprised. Cinalli and Weber for sure, at least. And all of your forwards are rather unlikely: -Press - will she even come to the US? I thought her contract w/ Goteborg was two years... -Perez - already has ties to Seattle -De Vanna - any non-North-American players are a stretch, and she'd much more likely east coast (was with DC before, other Aussies with BOS) anyway -Tanc - already has ties to Portland
No it was one year deal, and no new contact have been signed yet* but both parties seems intrested to continue and is "talking". *Göteborg tend to be fast to declar new signings and they have not yet for Press extention. So my guess is that she will not go to the US for 2013 (but probably for 2014) but she is not yet under contract in Europe.
I know this isn't legal, but could you imagine if (hypothetically) Christen Press were allowed to play for the Swedish National team. Press and Schelin would form one heck of a duo. Combined, they bring everything you would ever want in an attacking duo.
I think she'd be allowed if the US stopped existing or something, a la fall of the USSR. Uh, knock on wood?
I don't know anything about WPS, don't even live in North America or root for USWNT, just curious, and I have some doubts about the list: Why Ali Riley is listed as USA/WPS leftover and not WPS international? Doesn't she play for New Zealand? Or you just chose to consider where she lives and she lives in USA? Kate Markgraf? I thought she was retired... I often heard her comment matches in TV. Does she really still plays? Isn't she about 40? Lori Chalupny: i vaguely remember hearing that she had never completely recovered from a bad injury. Does she still play? There are maybe another pair of USA/WPS leftover players that left me puzzled because I thought they were retired, when I first read, but I can't find who they were... Sorry, maybe what I said didn't make sense, I am not an expert of US soccer. Just the doubts of a lover of international women's football, watching from outside...
Ali Riley was born in the US and still lives here. Calupny played for Chicago Red Stars in WPSLE in 2012 and is in Sweden now.
Sydney Leroux has committed to the league: http://equalizersoccer.com/2012/12/04/leroux-committed-to-new-professional-league/
Riley's first love is America. 2nd is New Zealand. She's even been quoted as saying this. I remember reading online that she was dating an American college male back in 2009 or so, and ended up cheating on him for another older American college male (graduate/teaching assistant). I don't think she's had a New Zealand lover in her life recently. She'll be in the U.S. for this league, I have no doubts.
I'm thinking Portland, mostly (but not always) with players that have regional ties (West Coast, with Portland emphasis). I'm a little short on forwards, but some of the mids could play forward: Christine Sinclair F Danielle Foxhoven F Casey Nogueira F Megan Rapinoe MF Tobin Heath MF Sophie Schmidt MF Leslie Osborne MF Angie Kerr MF Keelin Winters MF Stephanie Cox D Alina Garciamendez D Elli Reed D Ali Riley D Marian Dalmy D Kate Deines D (you left her off the Section 6 group) Erin McLeod GK Bianca Henninger GK There are some players that are going to be coming out of college early, notwithstanding what others think. I'll save a place for one of them. And yes, I have one in mind.
You're not short on forwards if you've got Sinclair involved. I'd rather have her up front with one other than three average forwards.