After a winning 2018 season, Raiders have high hopes for 2019, with a lot of returning players having gained a solid experience. "Games against five 2018 NCAA Tournament team will be featured as the defending Horizon League regular-season champion Wright State men's soccer team announced its 2019 schedule." Their schedule: https://wsuraiders.com/news/2019/4/19/-wsu-mens-soccer-releases-2019-schedule.aspx?path=msoc
The Raiders, one of five teams with double-digit wins In 2018 who have unfinished business to attend to in 2019. https://www.collegesoccernews.com/i...have-unfinished-business-to-attend-to-in-2019
Sorry @OverseasView, not exactly the best preseason start. Thankfully none of those count for anything.
From what I understand, many young inexperienced players started and had individual errors which caused goals. Then in 2nd half when potential starters played, it was one way traffic. Thus 3-3. Exhibition games are for this: give time to young players to validate their qualities, then when games count to play the best team. Let's see further improvement.
"The Wright State men's soccer team has been chosen as the preseason favorite to win the 2019 regular season title in a vote of the league's nine head coaches announced earlier today. The Raiders received four first-place votes and tallied 74 total points. UIC, which won last year's Horizon League tournament, was picked on five first-place ballots and received 69 points overall." (8/27/2019) https://wsuraiders.com/news/2019/8/...tabbed-to-finish-first-in-horizon-league.aspx 2019 Horizon League Men's Soccer Preseason Poll 1. Wright State – 74 2. UIC – 69 3. Green Bay – 52 4. Oakland – 51 5. Milwaukee – 49 6. Northern Kentucky – 46 7. IUPUI – 26 8. Cleveland State – 25 9. Detroit Mercy – 13
Tough week-end ahead for the raiders. Wake up at 3 am this morning to take a flight to meet Central Arkansas tomorrow in Conway and then drive (3/4 h by bus?) to Memphis for Sunday's game. The student athletes will be more athletes rather than students in the class room on Monday
Yes. He wanted to finish his journey in college soccer in a team with aspirations to get a winning season, after three disappointing loosing seasons. He had several offers, and chose WSU because it was a top RPI team last season, which played a rather expensive football. And the coach really wanted him (Jérémie's can mix defensive strength and ability to start offensive actions with short and long passes from both feet). So far he is really happy with the staff, team mates, surroundings, his new flat. He especially appreciates the spirit, dedication and football quality of all his team mates. Rejuvenation ! So far he started all games and played the full 90' this week-end. An happy bunny, my son these days. I will visit him the two last weeks of September and should see three games. I am impatient !
Well……. He still hopes. Even for just few years of a pro life, just to discover what it would be. His older brother got his dreams shattered because of injuries, so we are "walking on eggs" (French expression). Let's see how his season with a top team turns out. If top and consistant performances happen, it might attract agents/scouts' eyes…. We don't want to jinx it, do we?
Good point about the jinx. You're thinking like an American now. My son had a satisfying college career and went to a few tryout sessions for pro teams, but they expressed no further interest. Since my wife is an immigrant, he also got an invitation to try out for her native country's national team (most of the team lives in Europe or North America already) but he wasn't interested. He fell into a lucky opportunity at a Bay Area startup company and makes more now than the average MLS player (so he tells me) and plays softball on the company team.
Lost 2-1 against Western Virginia. I could watch this awful game of agricultural football (imagine Stoke vs Bolton in a rainy winter night, except that it was not raining), thanks to my older son Skyping from Florida (screen sharing) the live stream he was able to watch: it seems the stream was geo-blocked for Europe. I hope it was not the technical reason, as I see no meaningful logic to block a free stream of college soccer. I guess that I might be the only one to watch it at 1 am here: are they afraid to loose these revenues? In the match report, WSU's Head Coach Jake Slemker, perfectly summarized the issue: "We didn't do enough as a group to get the result we wanted. We let the opponent and ref control the outcome of the game. We have to take it upon ourselves to dictate the play from the start." https://wsuraiders.com/news/2019/9/8/mens-soccer-raiders-fall-to-mountaineers-2-1.aspx I like that he openly communicates his lucid analysis and that he is not afraid to talk straight. I hope the lads will react to it.
Yes. His word choice/sentence structure is part of the charm in reading his posts. Most definitely. But my French is barely even measurable, so.... Agricultural? Huh!?
My niece lives in France and sometimes people respond to her Facebook posts in French. Although I sat through 4 years of high school French, I depend on the google translate function to make any sense out of them.
Well, roughly not sophisticated at all. I.e. when you are in the fields it is about producing and the form and shape of doing it don't matter. You do not mind if you are elegant or not, whether you pollute or not, whether you are noisy or not. To plow is not the same as making an artwork, going out to a fine dinner or making a fine lace. So imagine a game between Stoke and Bolton. Pure kick and rush, a lot of fouls, borderline gamemanship and a weak referee who let it be. Result: awful football very very far from tiki taka. And the mentally weakest team is on the bad side of the equation.
Home win 2-0 against University of Cincinnati. First clean sheet. However obtained thanks to the GK's heroics: Joel Sundell recorded a season-high nine saves. The team still concedes too many shots: 16 with 7 SOGs. On the offense side, 22 shots is ok however only 3SOGs. Their still room to improve. PS: to continue my rant against video streaming policies: the game was on ESPN+. I checked how to subscribe and found in the FAQs that there is no broadcasting abroad…. Well thought strategy… Or do USA become a remote island?
may be too late, but have you considered getting a VPN with a US address (so it looks like you're in the US, but you're tunneling to Europe. It's an extra cost and hop, but I know a few folks do this in the UK.
Won 1-0 against St Francis (PA). A win is a win, but only one goal against a bottom team? Seems the team is ok at home, but not when playing away.