For some reason, I couldn't find any traditional highlights from last week's Italy's match vs. Georgia, but only these bizarre ones from ground level (of course with the green jerseys as well):
How many more goals would Miedema have if she took penalty kicks for the Dutch, as Sinclair has done for years for Canada? She's going to obliterate the goal-scoring record as is. Spitse is a good taker of PKs, but Miedema hits the ball even better...
Dancing Danes warming up to 14-0 vs Georgia! Tillykke til pigerne, det blev til hele 14-0 over Georgia⚽️🇩🇰😁💃🏻 #fordenmark #azonto #kvinderlandshold pic.twitter.com/m3Z96NHsNN— Pimpongs Talentskole (@Pimass) November 12, 2019
Arguably Iceland's greatest ever player, Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir, has just retired aged 33. She had 124 caps for Iceland and scored 79 goals (Including youth levels: 167 games and 106 goals). Her first goal came with her first touch against Hungary and her last goal came with her last touch against Estonia in the qualifiers this year. On a club level she played 263 games and scored 248 goals discounting cup fixtures. She started her career with her youth club ÍBV from the small island of Heimaey (about 4000 residents) of the south coast of Iceland. Later she joined Valur in Reykjavík and would earn three championship titles before heading to Europe. She enjoyed a short stint in Germany (there she suffered from bad injuries which cut short her career in Germany) where she played for Turbine Potsdam and Duisburg. She also played in Sweden for Linköping and Kristianstad. She was supposed to captain Iceland in Euro 2017 but yet again suffered ligaments injuries two weeks prior and was out for a year. She finished her career with Valur in Iceland where she earned her fourth title. scoring 15 goals in 17 games in her last season. Now it is up to a new generation of players to try to fill her shoes. How does this relate to this thread? Well, we will see if this will effect Iceland's chances in the qualifiers. At least, she will be missed by Icelandic fans. https://www.visir.is/g/2019191129045/margret-lara-leggur-skona-a-hilluna
Respect to her. I am sad that the injury kept her from reaching even greater achievements in her career. I remember that 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam of the old days, that was battling in Europe at the highest levels (always clashing with OL and often having to bow to them). It was a shame she wasn't healthy when she had been signed in that sort of dream-roster.
I agree, she was only 25 at the time and had already scored 69 goals in 85 caps for Iceland. She never regained her previous form but always remained a quality player.
Not a new news but the venues were selected a couple of motnhs ago. And most are not really big: Brighton & Hove: Brighton & Hove Community Stadium Home team: Brighton & Hove Albion Capacity: 30,000 Opened in 2011 in the village of Falmer, to the north of the south-coast city As well as Brighton's Premier League matches, the stadium has been the venue for England women's games Hosted matches in the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup London: Brentford Community Stadium Home team: Brentford and London Irish (Rugby union) Capacity: 17,000 Due to open in 2020 as the new home of the west London club Replacing Griffin Park, Brentford's home since 1904 Just north of the River Thames near Kew Bridge London: Wembley Stadium Home team: England Capacity: 89,000 The modern Wembley opened in 2007, with the old stadium and its twin towers having been demolished six years earlier Will stage the UEFA EURO 2020 final having also hosted the 2011 and 2013 UEFA Champions League finals as well as many domestic finals, including the FA Women's Cup The 80,203 crowd for the 2012 Olympic women's football final is a European record for the female game Manchester: Manchester City Academy Stadium Home team: Manchester City Women/Youth Capacity: 4,700 (seated) Across a bridge from Man. City's main arena, the Academy Stadium opened in 2014 Has held the home legs of City's UEFA Women's Champions League semi-finals in 2017 and 2018 Part of a complex that also includes 14 full-size training pitches Milton Keynes: Stadium MK Home team: MK Dons Capacity: 30,000 Opened in 2007 on the outskirts of the south-eastern town England's women and men's U21s have played there several times Hosted three matches at the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup and is a regular concert venue New York Stadium, Rotherham Home team: Rotherham United Capacity: 12,000 Opened in 2012, taking its name from the area of land where it was built in South Yorkshire Held its first England women's game in 2016 Staged the 2018 men's U17 EURO final Bramall Lane, Sheffield Home team: Sheffield United Capacity: 30,000 Originally a cricket ground opened in 1855, football was first played there in 1862 between reputedly the world's two oldest clubs, Sheffield FC and Hallam FC Sheffield United have played at the ground in the centre of the Yorkshire city since their formation in 1889 Venue for the first-ever floodlit game in 1878 St. Mary’s Stadium, Southampton Home team: Southampton Capacity: 32,000 The south-coast stadium opened in 2001 More than 25,000 fans watched a FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier there between England and Wales in 2018 The name honours St Mary's Church, near the stadium, whose members founded what eventually became Southampton FC Leigh Sports Village, Wigan & Leigh Home team: Manchester United Women/Youth and Leigh Centurions (Rugby League) Capacity: 8,000 Opened in 2008 as a home for Leigh Centurions, and later a 2013 Rugby League World Cup venue United's youth teams moved there in 2014 – four years on it became the first home of their new women's squad Part of a wider sports facility which also houses a campus of Wigan and Leigh College
I looked up on the 2017 Euro and attendance have sometimes been small especially group stage. A few thousand even a few hundred so they probably were preparing for something like that. Last thing we need is only 500 people showing up at Wembley.
Still... selecting stadiums with seating under 10k seems criminal for a UEFA NT competition. There was one game in 2017 with under 1k but every other group stage game was at least 3k - and 2017 took place in a much smaller country. London alone has half the population that the entirety of the Netherlands do. If England doesn't at least double both of those attendance benchmarks, it'd be quite a disappointment IMO.
I would expect a lot of international fans to come as well, that's what happened at France 2019. The French LOC had not planned for that many fans around.
I went to a Euro 2021 presentation today from the FA, all information is embargoed until Sunday but there are some interesting news coming on Sunday about the tournament.
"The 65th Eurovision in Rotterdam, Netherlands marks the sixth time our great nation has performed in the annual song contest, despite the fact we are not part of Europe and no one knows how we’ve managed to become part of the furniture."
here you can find an host of full game replays from Euro qualifiers UEFA Women's EURO 2021 Qualifiers - Google Drive
I see you don't have any recaps from group F. Here are couple of links to the Icelandic games. Hope they work for your location. Sorry if this is a repost. Iceland - Hungary https://www.visir.is/k/cac64b0c-9586-472e-a6cf-bc7fa268397f-1567113070430?jwsource=cl Iceland - Slovakia https://www.visir.is/k/74703171-9575-46d7-b25a-e10380db2717-1567465089922
well then, from the same google drive, every game of the 2019 World Cup https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1pxWLrLwfmnAoLKt9ETfqKXhCbL_FNWVS
those I have but since you've started to pull marvelous things out of this hat, any chance for Japan v Germany 2011 WWC match with english commentary perhaps? If someone is intrested, in my collection are - all WWC 2015 games, around 80% of Japan's matches past 2011 till now, London 2012 Olympics (don't have immediate access for those last one though) My google drive is only 15GB so gimme a shout for specific game and I will upload it.
Well, in the Arsenal video with Miedema before the WWC, she said she wouldn't take the responsibility of a last minute penalty in the final to win the WWC for her country. Edit: Maybe all she has to do is speak with Spitse if she wants to take the PKs from now on. Spitse let Martens take the PK vs Japan after Martens told her that she felt really confident about putting it away. Edit: Sorry, this is a very late reply; I wasn't paying attention to when you posted this comment. There were updates, and I assumed this was a recent comment for some reason.
No worries: I'm taking advantage of the Google Doc link above and re-watching the WC semifinal against Sweden. I think Spitse will be an issue going forward. Her free-kick deliveries are awesome, but she's getting older and doesn't move that well. She was not good in the first half against Sweden--very un-influential. She is very good at professional fouling, I will say that. Van Dongen wasn't very good either, which isn't all that surprising. ManU fans can complain about Groenen, if they want--but the Dutch would be sunk without her and Van de Donk, who are all over the field. I'll have modest expectations for the Dutch at the Olympics, but I do hope Van Lunteren will reconsider her international retirement and pull on the Orange again in time for Euro21!