OL women

[Inara]

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Inara]

Here is an interview of Louisa Necib:

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sport/2009/03/07/02001-20090307ARTFIG00224-louisa-necib-gracieuse-en-talons-et-en-crampons-.php

She says that she turned down the WPS becausse Aulas and Benistiti were counting on her. Gotta love that!

[Gnafron]

The good news is that she's single… :D

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6144/louisafx2.jpg

[guignol]

corine franco and elodie thomis in a "special" report in sportweek magazine

http://www.sportweek.fr/loisirs/glamour/0/equipe-france-feminine-carton-rose-62237.html (http://www.sportweek.fr/loisirs/glamour/0/equipe-france-feminine-carton-rose-62237.html)

[Bonnie Lass]

Does anyone know if OL will be showing both UEFA matches or just the first leg, or ... neither leg? :(

Just curious. It was brought up in the rivalry forum. And I don't want to get my hopes up about it being broadcast ...

[guignol]

in the past they've always at least shot both matches to show on OLTV. i'm only 90% certain they will be shown live, but the OLTV programme for 28/03 to 03/04 goes up tomorrow, we'll see then.

[Gnafron]

in the past they've always at least shot both matches to show on OLTV. i'm only 90% certain they will be shown live, but the OLTV programme for 28/03 to 03/04 goes up tomorrow, we'll see then.

We missed the Verona game i think due to TV rights…

[Bonnie Lass]

Nice! I appreciate the information.

And yes, the Verona match wasn't shown live, but a good hour+ of highlights were put up not too long after the match. Later that night, I think, or perhaps the next morning. (By my time zone, anyway.)

I've been nervously wating for this game for some time now. I think we all have.

[guignol]

http://s.olweb.fr/ol/file/200903/20090328_OLTV%20-%20previsionnel_28_MARS-3_AVRIL_2009.pdf

OL-FC Duisberg live at 16:50 (CET)

rerun at 2am sunday which would be 8pm saturday in, say, boston, and several times again during the week.

[Bonnie Lass]

I hope to be awake for the original live version, but it's nice to know they'll have repeats later if I happen to miss it.

Thanks for the confirmation of the game. I'm going to be a nervous wreck all week. :o

[Bonnie Lass]

As always, I've uploaded the match if anyone wants to see it. It's the one off the OL site, not the TV/DVD quality one.

Just let me know.

:)

[LottaL8]

As always, I've uploaded the match if anyone wants to see it. It's the one off the OL site, not the TV/DVD quality one.

Just let me know.

:)


could you upload it for people who couldnt see the game

[Bonnie Lass]

LottaL8 has a PM.

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Ummmm ... What happened?

:(

[LottaL8]

thank you so much for the videos. sorry for the late replay..work and family. the videos work fine except scroller to skip video...but everything else is great. thanks so much.

[guignol]

:(

the score is sans appel. apparently there's still work to do, above all in playing together as a team.

hopefully if they can keep all the troops together, next year will be even brighter.

[Bonnie Lass]

Have y'all heard any murmurings about Schelin's future with OL?

Chicago named her as a post-draft discovery player today and we're all scratching our heads about it. We don't have a clue if this means she may come over for good, or maybe temporary (knowing the Euros run into the end of the WPS season) ... ?

Just curious. It was an odd move and their management is smart enough to know she's still under contract ...

Thanks, y'all. :)

[Inara]

I seriously doubt that Schelin will leave before the end of her contract (which ends this summer). After that, she might choose to refuse any contract extension and go to the WPS, but not before then.

In other news, Lyon have signed two more Norwegian players, Christine Colombo Nilsen and Isabell Lenh Herlovsen. The first is a gk brought on to replace Sarah Bouhaddi, who is injured. The second is an attacker - maybe she's intended to eventually replace Schelin?

Lyon hope to have them available for their Champions League games against Fortuna Hjorring in November.

[guignol]

schelin's contract, afaik, is not a pro player contract as allowed in france since the beginning of this season. it's a normal labor contract which she could break as easily as sonia and camill did theirs...

the difference is she's getting paid in the neighborhood of 200k€/year, well over a quarter million bucks which in theory is about half what the red stars can spend on salary for the whole squad.

[Inara]

Really? When she signed, there was so much noise made over her signing and how she was such a highly paid (for a female footballer) pro player. Then again, my French reading skills are totally not up to task.

So how does her contract work? I know that she doesn't have any job, she only plays, so is the contract basically treating football like her job?

[guignol]

obviously no one's going to get a look at the contract itself (although i did once see one of djila diarra's bulletin de paie that he probably dropped somewhere and ended up acrobating around the net) but my guess is that she does have a vague official function as consultant or something.

at the time she signed pay for play was not allowed by the FFF for women's football, and i've heard nothing about her status being changed since then.