NWT Game at Torero!!!!

NWT Game at Torero!!!! (vs Japan)

I just got this email:

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Dear Spirit Season Ticket Holder:

On Sunday, January 12th, history will be made at Torero Stadium and, as a loyal Spirit season ticket holder; we want you to be a part of it.

For the first time ever, the U.S Women's National Team will play a promoted match in San Diego. The match will kick-off the team's road to China and the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. Come to Torero Stadium and see the team that will be looking to repeat as world champion. Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Shannon MacMillan and Tiffeny Milbrett are just a few of the star players scheduled to be on the roster for this exciting exhibition match.

Here are the details for the event:

U.S. Women's National Team vs. Japan

Sunday, January 12, 2003 @ 1pm

Torero Stadium on the campus of USD

Spirit season ticket holders have first chance to purchase tickets prior to the general public. Season ticket holders can purchase their same seats for this match and can also purchase additional seats, (there is no guarantee that the additional seats will be next to your season seats). Orders must be received prior to noon on Monday, November 25th. After that time, all seats will become available for sale to the general public.

Ticket prices:
Special Field level seats - $150 (Limited number of seats available)

Section 117, 118 - $45
Section 115, 116, 119, 120 - $40
Section 101, 102, 103, 114, 121 - $35
Section 104, 105, 112, 113, 122, 123 - $30
Section 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 111A - $20


Please use the attached order form when purchasing tickets. After completing the attached order form, please fax it to the Spirit offices at 619-692-8144. Once again, order forms must be received by noon on Monday, November 25th.

We anticipate tickets will go quickly once the general public sale begins, so please don't miss out on this historic event; get your order form in right away!

If you have any questions, please call the Spirit offices at 619-692-9872.

Start practicing your U-S-A chant and we'll see you at Torero Stadium on January 12th, 2003!!

Kind regards,

San Diego Spirit

 

As I mentioned several days ago (apparently BS used back ups to put in the old stuff that was missing, but that got rid of the new stuff), I received my tickets for the game several days ago.

 

Aly Wagner Interview on "Inside Soccer"

I didn't want to set up a separate thread just for this, so I thought that I'd stick it here. The interview can be found here:

http://www.spiritedsoccer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=155

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Norma - When you see this, let me know if you got either of my attempts to reply to your PM... Don

 

ARCO training center

I'm assuming that the team will congregate at ARCO at least a week before the game. For those who might want to go down there to watch a practice, here is a link to the Olympic complex...

http://www.olympic-usa.org/about_us/visitor_ctr_ARCO.html

 

I thought that this should be brought back up to the top of the threads, since there is now less than a week to go...

The extended forecast for San Diego at the Weather Channel website:

01/09 Scattered Showers 71/48
01/10 Partly Cloudy 71/47
01/11 Partly Cloudy 70/47
01/12 Mostly Sunny 69/47

So, except for Thursday, it looks like really good weather for practices and for the game itself.

 

USD Campus Map

For those of you who will be attending a game at Torero for the first time, here is a map of the campus. The Mission Parking Complex is the closest to Torero, and is multi-level, but only has room for a fraction of number of vehicles that arrive for games. The parking lots are scattered all over the place, but trams pick up people and take them to the Stadium. I do not know if there will be a charge for parking at the Mission Complex (for Spirit games, it is normallly $5, with the other lots being free...)

http://www.sandiego.edu/parking/images/map200.jpg

 

This morning's Union-Tribune has a short piece by Mark Zeigler that says that practice doesn't start until tomorrow (at 3pm) and Friday (at 10:30am), at ARCO. It also indicates that there would be a closed practice at Torero on Saturday.

 

18 player roster announced

From an email by the Spirit...

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HEINRICHS NAMES 18 PLAYERS TO FACE JAPAN
TOMORROW IN SAN DIEGO AT TORERO STADIUM
Match Will Be Televised Live on ESPN at 12:55 p.m. PT

CHICAGO (January 11, 2003) - After watching 26 players in three days of training, U.S. Women's National Team head coach April Heinrichs has named the 18 players who will face Japan tomorrow, Jan. 12, at Torero Stadium in San
Diego, Calif. Kickoff is at 12:55 p.m. PT live on ESPN. Tickets ranging in price from $20 to $35 will be available at the gate on game day.

The USA vs. Japan match will be the first of approximately 15 games the USA will play before the 2003 Women's World Cup, which runs from September 23-October 11, in four Chinese cities.

Heinrichs named two San Diego Spirit players who will be playing in their home stadium in defender Joy Fawcett, the most capped player on the roster at 203 games played for the USA, and 2002 Chevy U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year Shannon MacMillan. Also named were 1999 Women's World Cup veterans Brandi Chastain (San Jose CyberRays), Tiffeny Milbrett (New York Power), Cindy Parlow (Atlanta Beat), Tiffany Roberts (Carolina Courage) and Kate Sobrero (Boston Breakers).


Heinrichs named four non-professionals in midfielder Aly Wagner, who was in St. Louis, Mo., last night to accept the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy as college soccer's top player, University of North Carolina junior defender Cat Reddick, and a pair of teenagers in UNC freshman Lindsay Tarpley and high school senior Heather O'Reilly.


Tarpley, the ACC Freshman of the Year and leading scorer for the Tar Heels, will be looking for her first full national team cap after earning 26
at the U-19 level, in which she scored 24 goals, the last of which won the 2002 FIFA U-19 World Championship in sudden death overtime as the USA
defeated Canada, 1-0. The goalkeepers named are LaKeysia Beene (CyberRays) and Siri Mullinix (Washington Freedom).


All 26 players in camp are still eligible to make the roster for the Four Nations Tournament in China taking place from Jan. 23-29, 2003, and featuring
the USA, China, Norway and Germany. The USA will train for two more days after the Japan match before Heinrichs names the Four Nations roster in the middle of next week and the USA will depart for China on Thursday. The complete 18-player roster to face Japan is as follows:

Goalkeepers: LaKeysia Beene, Siri Mullinix;
Defenders: Thori Bryan, Brandi Chastain, Joy Fawcett, Cat Reddick, Kate Sobrero;

Midfielders: Lorrie Fair, Angela Hucles, Jena Kluegel, Tiffany Roberts, Aly Wagner;

Forwards: Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett, Heather O'Reilly, Cindy Parlow, Lindsay Tarpley, Abby Wambach.

 

Here is Mark Zeigler's writeup on the game...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/sports/news_1s13ussoc.html

 

The Spirit also sent out an email that gave an account of the game, it's a word for word duplicate of the one at the US Soccer site:

http://www.ussoccer.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=26285&itype=

 

Some of the people sitting around me (all of them, except Nordby1 and magiclamp) were guessing that there were more like 6,000 there - sections 101, 102 and 103 seemed to be completely filled. We found ourselves wondering how many more (i.e., PTHers) would have showed up if Mia had been there.

The field itself really looked good. It did look odd, though, to see those people seated on the sidelines behind the bumper signs on the other side of the field. I'm sure Brandi had times when she wished for those extra 3-4 feet so she could make longer throw ins into the box...