Lol, poor girl! From which part of Australia does she come? Anyway, I guess she didn't ever experience our current "siberian" winter. I mean, it's very cold, with snow and everything, here, and I am talking northern Italy. I don't dare to imagine how does it feel in Germany right now... Brrrrrrrrrrr... Edit: oh, by the way, thanks for the german lesson of the day, Micol. You know I appreciate. ^__^
why, if it's german lessons you want the old doctor can help you out.. Du kannst nicht treu sein Nein, nein, das kannst du nicht Wenn auch dein Mund mir Wahre... c'mon, everybody sing!
... Liebe verspricht! /sings Anyway... Leipzig have signed Katie Kelly from FC Indiana (she's also played for Kristianstad in the past). Hannah Bromley is leaving Herford to return to New Zealand. Anja Barwinsky from the Virginia Beach Piranhas already joined Gütersloh during the first half of the season.
Are you all aware that Ali Krieger underwent surgery for her ACL injury two days ago? There is a thread about it in the USA Women National Team forum.
Nope. The league isn't starting again until 26 February. Before then, there are just a few matches which had to be cancelled last year due to the weather, but they won't be streamed. The next few matches on DFB-TV: Sunday 26 February, 11am CET: Frankfurt-Leipzig Sunday 11 March, 2pm CET: Leverkusen-Duisburg Sunday 18 March, 2pm CET: Potsdam-Wolfsburg Sunday 25 March, 2pm CET: Wolfsburg-Duisburg
and i would think those likely to be wiedercancelled. at least the players are hoping so, fields are frozen solid all over europe.
That may well be the case. They're all playing a few training matches at the moment (Frankfurt-Stabaek, for one, on Wednesday), but mostly on artificial turf. Two more new players to Leipzig: New Zealand international Anna Green and ex Sky Blue player Jenista Clark.
what wendlinger says about becoming "perdue de vue" for the EdF is understandable and not necessarily, or at least completely, due to hard feelings: the fact is that while men who go to chelsea or barça are as visible to an NT coach as if they were in paris, a woman going to fribourg really becomes invisible. the club where she played in alsace, vendenheim, was promoted to D1 this year and though there not yet assured of staying up they're one that most people here are hoping will pull through: they seem to be cooperating quite well with the local men's club RC strasbourg and two weeks from now will play their second curtain-raiser match in le meinau stadium; the first one against OL drew 9000 fans.
largely but not entirely true; the fact it was a lever de rideau was the main reason for the crowd. apparently there were already 3000 there for the ladies' kickoff, and when you look at RCS's average attendances one can think that at least that many came specifically or partially to see...well, OL i guess. i'm all wet about the date of the second match in le meinau, it was held 21 JANUARY... and indeed "only" 600 fans (out of 5000) stayed to watch vendenhein against montpellier after the RCS match... a strategic error.
I was there for the OL match. One of the reasons for the (even 3,000-strong) crowd was that it was a whole football day on a nice summer weekend, with kids football events etc, so the women's match was just one of the attractions.
Now THAT would be interesting to see those Brits on the team. Not likely, but still interesting to think about.
I would think if Franckfurt offers Alex and Kelly a nice appartment and a good deal why not because the WSL is hampered by a salary cap and a maximum of 4 players to be paid between 20 000 and 30 000 £ a year.
And Brett Maron is leaving Potsdam again. She's afraid that she wouldn't get enough playing time in this new constellation, so she's asked to be released from her contract. She's hoping to go to Iceland instead (she's played for Fram Rejkjavik before).
she's been to iceland? and is hoping to go back? keep all sharp objects away from this young lady, het meisje is niet goed snik.
Well, in all this dance of Potsdam's GK, I really hope Naeher doesn't get injured somehow... Not only for her, poor girl (crossing all of my fingers for nothing of the kind to happen), but also because... well, then, who'd go to Iceland to kidnap Maron (only way to bring her back in that case)?
The Leipzig team sent a letter to their management last week complaining that their salaries were late, and many of them didn't show up for practice last Friday. So now the three players who are said to have organised the protest have been banned from the A team and sent to the reserve for now: Anne van Bonn (who joined Leipzig from Duisburg only last summer, was captain for a short while and then demoted when the coach, said to be her girlfriend, was fired), Safi Nyembo (recently back from a lengthy injury but normally one of the team's most important players), and Jobina Lahr (joined last summer from Hamburg). (Article)
Duisburg might actually have a few players next season after all: Ali Riley and Rebecca Moros (formerly with New York Flash) are there on trial.
any freiburg fans able to tell us just how good marina makanza who has been picked by bini to go to the cyprus tournament is? judging by her picture she's bad to the bone and that would be a good thing.
Not quite as bad as her picture suggests, I would say. I'm happy for her - but also a bit surprised. She hasn't been a regular starter for Freiburg, and it's not as if a sigh of relief and hope goes through the stands when she does come on. She creates chances, but she also misses them, and I don't think she's very fast. But maybe under national team scrutiny she will be able to step up her game? I'm also happy that playing abroad (even if just across the border) doesn't have to be a dead end for French players any longer (in contrast to the earlier experience which Stéphanie Wendlinger reported in an interview a few weeks ago). When I read that she had been called up, I wondered for a moment "if you've got Lotta to score goals, why would you call up Makanza". Ahem. I feel only very little ashamed though, because this probably does say something about French football and national team selection.
she was playing in france until 2010 and did well in the U-20 WC so she's evidently still fresh in the minds of the fed; it's we fans (well, me) who be ignorant: since she's on the list of players selected as a midfielder (and with a little suggestion from that coiffure that makes grace jones look like little bo peep) we were hoping she'd be apt to fill our real need: a n°6 to spell grandmama when she gets into her robe and slippers and puts on the kettle at HT. as for lotta, who needs lotta when you have eugénie le sommer? (of course having both is nice!)
Two potential new faces (and four legs) for Duisburg: Ali Riley and Becca Moros (both from Western New York Flash) are trying out with them this week and might join them in the summer. Oh, and Hamburg tied Potsdam 1-1 yesterday.