Bad for Adriana, but I'm excited for Luana getting selected for the World Cup. She was consistently brilliant for Avaldsnes over many years.
Guijarro made it back in. I presume she'll be used sparingly but from what I've heard of her, she could be a gamechanger even as a sub
Vero Boquete would've upped that a little bit. I know she's been out of the picture for a while but I still wonder if Spain is going to miss her.
Yeah it's still insane to me to leave out Boquete, especially on a team without a true #9 that struggles to score. But Vilda really wanted generational change I guess. It's still a strong Spain squad. Does anyone know the naming conventions for Spain? Some players are listed by their surnames (Torrejon, Losada, Meseguer), some with first initial and surname (even though there's only one of their surname on the roster, like I. Paredes), some with first name and last initial (Lucia G.), and some simply with their first names (Ivana, Amanda, Jenni, Nahikari). Is there any rhyme or reason to this?
I thought they generally use their first names, except when 2 or more players have the same first name, then one of them changes it to a middle or last name.
I've got the feeling that it can get more complicated than that. Brazil-like complicated, to be clear.
this coach seems to prefer the tiki taka passing of Barca, instead of the dribble, drive style of Vero & Bermudez. He made it clear over two years ago that he's looking for younger players & was letting go veterans. It be hard to fire him since he's got a firm hand on the more successful youth programs as well. Half his team usually is made out of Barca players even though it's been Athletico Madrid that's beat them for the league title 3 years in a row now. I wanted to check out how many Barca players made it this time, but I agree; the names on the roster are too confusing to follow; I mean, Jenni should be Hermoso, but her real last name is Fuentes, lol, but then they list Caldentey, but who goes usually with the playing name of Mariona/ this was their strongest game of the year, a 2-0 victory against the Dutch(so possibly their starting lineup cept Patri Guijarro was missing) Spain vs. Netherlands - 27 February 2019 - Women Soccerway but keep in mind that thanks to so many Barca starters, their going to be a strong, friendlies team, but that don't always work as during major tournaments as the Lyon dominated, France NT as well has a history of looking good in friendlies but flopping at major tournament time(a other NT's have more time to prepare for them) Spain should have a bright future though if top youth players like the current 18 year olds Pina & Navarro become adult superstars as well(those two brought Spain last year, the u17 WC title & runners up at u20
Japan's future should be even brighter, since they have beaten these generations of Spanish players in the finals of both U-17 WWC 2014 and U-20 WWC 2018.
if we go everything by youth, then North Korea & Nigeria would be the (senior) World Champions by now! lol. There's probably a different standard by both Asian & Africans on how they bring up their youth/soccer programs. I've heard that some countries(especially those continents I just mentioned) bring up their youth NT all live under one roof to live, breath soccer 24/7. But then let them go once they hit adulthood. in the US we got some boarding schools that cater to athletes, but not a lone standing, soccer school. But these schools are expensive(not funded by the govt.) & the athletes aren't hand picked for their abilities. it's come to the attention that in Japan, that male high school ball is HUGE(many videos like the one below proves that) but don't know if it's that popular for woso, or for the developement of the youth & senior NT. Rembering how good former youth player, Yoko Tanaka was(or was she just very photo genic? lol) but went bust/or Yokohama, who made arguably, youth soccer's greatest goal of the decade, but looked rather underwhelming in her one year in the Bundesliga(4 goials as Frankfurt's lone striker). shows that being great in youth soccer, doesn't necessarily make you tops senior wise
An article that was mentioned on these boards some time ago explains that this is a nickname and how she earned it: Another recent article explained how she didn't actually have an easy life in her youth years in Jamaica , but I can't seem to retrieve that piece.
So, apparently the missing player from the previous issue was FW Sade Adomelekun. Although her name looks suspiciously similar to MF Olufofalosade Adamolekun. Are they really different, or is just a typo and both names refer to the same player. And in that case, who's nominee #23?
If I am not wrong, at about two weeks from the beginning of the competition, we still miss 6 rosters: Nigeria, China, Italy, Canada, Cameroon and Thailand (almost one per group! Except Group D is actually complete and Group E still misses two teams). We have a rough idea of Cameroon, Nigeria and Italy anyway, since they published provisional rosters of about 26-27 players (that were posted here). No news from Asia about China and Thailand instead and I am not sure if we know anything more about Canada. Coach Milena Bertolini said that Italy's roster will be published tommorrow, Friday the 24th of May.
Official publication by FIFA is 27th of May. Replacement rule after that deadline: A player listed on the final list may be replaced by a player from the provisional list only in the event of serious injury or illness up until 24 hours before the kick-off of her team’s first match. The replacement shall be nominated by the participating team, who shall inform FIFA accordingly. The provisional list has up to 50 names. France submitted 50 names so they have 27 potential back-ups in case of injuries.