2016 La Manga Tournament

Sweet. Thanks for the post.
Why are Germany and Sweden only sending their U-20's?

 

Too bad we are not playing Germany or Japan. Also, where's France? They should expand it to 8 teams.

 

I think the schedule posted is wrong, and the U.S. U20's are going to La Manga.

 

The US U18 WNT will also be competing at La Manga in a U18 version of the tournament. They will become the U20's following the U20 WWC this fall.

 

Istria Cup

Group A

Hungary B, Croatia, Slovakia, Northern Ireland

Group B

Poland U19, France B, U.S. U23, Slovenia

— Chris Henderson (@chris_awk) February 6, 2016

 

Hard to speculate if the 23s from better European countries r more of challenge than full teams from small countries because unless ur a really deep program any good players u have r on the NT not the 23s. There is also a benefit of the US 23s playing against older players from a pro environment instead of players in their own age group. There is also a prize to aim for. Im glad they tried this and as u mentioned, there is always the French B team to measure themselves against.

 

They didnt face the Irish starters and those starters who did get in played two days before. Yes these r the same teams that r getting pounded in qualifying by the good European teams but a US U23 team is generally a cobbled together group of players who r training by themselves either for Spring soccer or getting ready for the league. While a played in US U23 may be top ten in the world I think this is a nice tester under the circumstances. Id even like it better if the US abandon the U23s all together and went with a B team concept. This would be a way to open up the pool a bit and get more players into the CBA.

 

I like this idea, a lot.

 

this actually could be a quality tourney but I don't think some of the best countries will bring their best, age appropriate players.

Norway got two of the best youngsters in the game, Ada Hegerberg & Caroline Hansen(both 20 years old), but their the star starters for the senior team & most certainly needed at the last Olympic spot tourney(March 2-9).

Same could be said for Sweden, they got two strong upcoming fwds in Blackinhaus & Hammerlund, but their direct subs to the senior NT starters, Schelin & Jacobsson(and of course Sweden is trying to get into the Olympics as well). But they di win the Uefa u19 championship last year.

Japan's is in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers which will take away it's best players too(at any age)

Germany didn't fare as well as they've done previously at the youth level, but they tend to grow up faster at the u20 age cause most of them are playing in the Bundesliga 1st division all ready. Their superstar of the 2013 u-20 WC, Pauline Bremer is still age eligible(she still only 19 years old) but she's still recovering from injury. The US isn't schedules to play them anyways.

Which comes to the final team, u23 England, which might just be the most interesting opponent. Since England can't compete in the Olympics and got an rather easy UEFA qualifying group, they can bring their best players into this tourney. The one player I'm most familiar with is Beth Mead(age 21). She was the top scorer by far last season in England's top league(11 goals to 2nd place 6 goals). Hopefully she'll be in this tourney to display her talents(she's yet to play for their senior NT). They also got a couple of fast wingers in Nikita Parris(19) & Danielle Carter(22). Should be a good game when they play the US, March 04

btw..................anyone know the US roster? Just wondering if Spirit players, Oyster & Dydasco will be on it; watched them recently on youtube as they simply dominated for their Newcastle team in the Aussie W-League

 

U.S. U-20's are going instead of the U-23's. U-23's are going to the Istria Cup.

 

When did that change happen?

 

The players have known about it and the U18 La Manga tournament for a long time. They told them at earlier camps. They may not do as good a job informing the general public about it. I still can't find a schedule for the U18 tournament and all of the players that are going have been informed. They all leave on Saturday the 27th of this month.

 

You can have a good idea of the U19 schedule on the NFF website, it is not the full schedule though

http://www.fotball.no/Landslag_og_t...2016/Se-oversikten-over-TV2s-kamper-i-vinter/

thanks for the information I will update my blog

 

From story lunatic linked above: The US U20 WNT will play U23 Sweden on March 2, U23 England on March 4, and U23 Norway on March 6.

 

Defenders are mostly from Penn State and Stanford. Total players from schools: Penn State has 5, Stanford has 4, N. Carolina with 2, and Texas A&M with 2, the rest with 1.

Lots of good team in this tournament.
The 16-team field for the tournament is set and it’s a strong one, featuring: Canada, Mexico, the USA, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, Venezuela, France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden.

 

U-18 WNT Will Travel to La Manga, Spain for Three Matches

NEWS Feb 22, 2016

CHICAGO (Feb. 22, 2016) – The U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team will travel to La Manga, Spain, from Feb. 27-March 7 for three matches against Under-19 teams as part of the annual event in southwest Spain.

The USA will be coached by U.S. Soccer Women’s Technical Director April Heinrichs who has called up 22 players, 19 born in 1998 and three in 1997.

The USA will be playing against older teams comprised mostly of 1997s and will face Denmark on March 3, England on March 5 and finish with Norway on March 7.

All the players traveling to Spain are age-eligible for the team that will participate in the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup which has an age cut-off of players born on or after Jan. 1, 1996, but the goal for this age group is to ultimately qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.

U.S. U-18 WNT Roster by Position:

GOALKEEPERS (2): Amanda Dennis (Penn State; Palmetto, Fla.), Brooke Heinsohn (New England FC; Norfolk; Mass.)

DEFENDERS (7): Malia Berkely (Fairfield Optimist SC; Liberty Township, Ohio), Holly Daugirda (Utah Avalanche; Salt Lake City, Utah), Julie Doyle (San Diego Surf; Murrieta, Calif.), Samantha Hiatt (Crossfire FC; Newcastle, Wash.), Julie Mackin (Real Colorado; Castle Rock, Colo.), Kaiya McCullough (San Diego Surf; Mission Viejo, Calif.), Taylor Mitchell (Real So Cal; Tarzana, Calif.)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Olivia Athens (PSV Union FC; Atherton, Calif.), Marley Canales (San Diego Surf; Temecula, Calif.), Arlie Jones (San Diego Surf, Las Vegas, Nev.), Taylor Kornieck (San Diego Surf, Henderson, Nev.), Zoe Morse (Michigan Hawks; East Lansing, Mich.), Natalie Winters (Michigan Hawks; Plymouth, Mich.)

FORWARDS (7): Jenna Bike (Connecticut FC; Trumbull, Conn.), Marissa Bosco (Eclipse Select; St. Charles, Ill.), Sunny Dunphy (San Diego Surf; Carlsbad, Calif.), Cecilia Gee (Lamorinda United; Orinda, Calif.), Kennedy Goins (TSC Hurricane; Broken Arrow, Okla.), Alissa Gorzak (Eclipse Select; Naperville, Ill.), Abigail Kim (Pacific NW SC; Vashon, Wash.)

 

Interestingly enough, the U-20 portion of the La Manga Tournament has a website with video links for the matches, which begin this morning.
https://lamangatv.solidtango.com/categories/w-u23-tournament
The website lists this as the U-23 Tournament, but our U-20's are playing the teams listed.


Also, the U-18 portion of the La Manga Tournament has a website link to video streams of the matches, which being tomorrow.
https://lamangatv.solidtango.com/categories/w-u19-tournament
As expected, the website lists this as the U-19 Tournament.

The cost is $10.99 to Register. Not sure if that cost is per match, per tournament, or just to unlock all the video streaming content. I emailed the website to find out. Will let you know as soon as they reply. I have a feeling it's a per match fee.

 

As I suspected; each match is $10.99. However, they offer a VIP pass for $27.99 USD for 20 days.
EDIT: They charge an additional VAT tax of $5.60 USD; which doesn't show up until after you've made the purchase (via e-mail receipt).

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Christian svarade:
Each live broadcast is separate, and purchased separately as well.

If you want access to more than one live broadcast, it could be better for you to purchase the VIP pass, which gives you access to all upcoming live broadcasts from this season.

You can find the VIP pass here: https://lamangatv.solidtango.com/vip

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