2010 WPS Preseason Game Thread

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  1. Cville K C

    Cville K C Member

    Nov 3, 2008
    Collinsville, IL
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not that the results are all that important, but it is the first chance to get a look at some of the players. I've been trying to piece together a schedule for the 8 teams. So far, I have seen complete preseason schedules from Boston, Gold Pride, and Philadelphia, with a few other games for other teams.

    Here's what I have so far:

    3/12 - Chicago Red Stars vs. Washington Freedom (Vero Beach, FL)
    3/13 - FC Gold Pride vs. TEPCO Mareeze (Mustang Soccer Complex, Danville, CA)
    3/17 - Boston Breakers vs. US U-20 National Team (Univ of Florida?)
    3/20 - Boston Breakers vs. Sky Blue FC (Univ. of Florida?)
    3/20 - Philadelphia Independence vs. University of North Carolina (United Sports, Downingtown, PA)
    3/23 - Boston vs. Atlanta (Univ. of Florida?)
    3/24 - Boston vs University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
    3/25 - FC Gold Pride vs. University of San Francisco (Negoesco Stadium, San Francisco, CA)
    3/27 - Philadelphia Independence at Washington Freedom
    4/1 - FC Gold Pride vs. Santa Clara (Buck Shaw Stadium)
    4/1 - Philadelphia Independence vs. Penn State University (Downingtown, PA)
    4/3 - Saint Louis Athletica vs. Atlanta Beat (University of Tulsa, OK).
     
  2. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Freedom preseason schedule (also posted here):


    Code:
    DATE/TIME       LOCATION               OPPONENT  NOTES
    3/12, 7:00 pm   Hobart Soccer Complex  Chicago   Tickets from irsoccer.com
                    Vero Beach, FL
    3/20, 7:30 pm   Sportsbackers Park     UVA       Free. Venue information
                    Richmond, VA                     at sportsbackers.org
    3/27, 2:00 pm   Soccerplex             Phila.    Admission $10 
    
    4/03, 3:00 pm   Soccerplex             UNC       Donation $10
                                                     Kicks Against Breast Cancer
    First game is on a Friday; the rest are on Saturday.
     
  3. Cville K C

    Cville K C Member

    Nov 3, 2008
    Collinsville, IL
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks StarCityFan!

    I also just saw a tweet from WPS PR director Robert Penner that the "league will put out full preseason compilation of all games on Monday, March 8."
     
  4. Del Piero 10

    Del Piero 10 Member

    Mar 17, 2009
    Club:
    Philadelphia Independence
    Philadelphia also has a game against Rutgers (at Rutgers) on March 7th at 5:30pm.
     
  5. Cville K C

    Cville K C Member

    Nov 3, 2008
    Collinsville, IL
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks!

    Atlanta released their preseason schedule.

    In addition to the March 23rd game against the Breakers and the April 3rd game against Athletica, they have the following:

    3/10 - Atlanta Beat at Auburn University (scrimmage)
    3/19 - Atlanta Beat vs. US U-20 Team (St. Augustine, FL) (scrimmage)
    3/21 - Atlanta Beat vs. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) (scrimmage)
    3/25 - Atlanta Beat vs. Florida State (Tallahassee FL) (scrimmage)
    3/28 - Atlanta Beat vs. UNC (Kennesaw, GA)

    That's a darn busy schedule.
     
  6. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    I can't say I'm surprised. As an expansion team, I bet they'd want as many games as possible before the season starts to learn how to work well as a team. All the other teams (minus PHI) have cores that they can build from.
    I'm actually surprised PHI doesn't have more games scheduled....
     
  7. kool-aide

    kool-aide Member+

    Feb 1, 2002
    a van by the river
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm w/ Cville, though. It seems like they've got too many games. If they don't have their fitness/recovery & player rotations *just* right there's a huge potential for muscle pulls/tears and/or being too tired at the start of the season. I see what you're saying about needing games to "catch up" in terms of team cohesion but there's a fine line that I think they might be getting a tad too close to. But maybe they have the bestest fitness coach and the staff will have the recovery/player rotations down and all will work out well for them.
     
  8. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How much difference is there between playing exhibition matches and practicing? Based on what I've seen of the Freedom, a hefty share of the latter is team scrimmages, anyway.
     
  9. kool-aide

    kool-aide Member+

    Feb 1, 2002
    a van by the river
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Which they lost but I don't think any of the various national team level players played.

    The Freedom beat the U23 WNT today.
     
  10. FreeKicks

    FreeKicks New Member

    Sep 29, 2009
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Atlanta defeats Auburn 3-2, goals by Latham, Thompson, Zerboni

    Washington defeats Chi-town 2-1, only goal I know of is De Vanna.
     
  11. Peg Hopper

    Peg Hopper Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    On the Border
    Club:
    Deportivo Cali
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Huffman may have got the first goal for DC. I got a text message but lost it. Oops.

    No clue on the CRS goal. I can't believe no-one is posting here or on the twitterverse about this....
     
  12. ForeverLOST108

    ForeverLOST108 Member+

    Jan 23, 2010
    Orlando
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Scoring:
    Wash. - Huffman, 12th minute
    Wash. - De Vanna, 29th minute
    Chi. - Masar, 61st minute


    Anyone know who the available players were for each team?
     
  13. bekairos

    bekairos New Member

    Nov 9, 2008
    The Chicago lineup :

    Loyden, Dalmy, Markgraf, Engen, Spilger, Klein, Reiser, Sitch, Weissenhofer, Cristiane, Masar
     
  14. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Writeup on the Freedom-Red Stars match here, though without lineups.
     
  15. ForeverLOST108

    ForeverLOST108 Member+

    Jan 23, 2010
    Orlando
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States


    Wow I didn't even think about the fact that the game was only the second time all season Chicago has trained outdoors. Saw in a picture that Dieke was there for Chicago.. good to see her arrive from Scotland.

    I really wish I knew the full lineups though. That'd really give some insight as to what both teams got to work with.


    Looks like De Vanna will get off to a good start this season if she stays healthy.
     
  16. FCGoldPrideGM

    FCGoldPrideGM New Member

    Nov 19, 2009
    Club:
    FC Gold Pride
    FYI the FCGP pre-season game on 4/1 at SCU has been cancelled. I don't want anyone to show up to an empty stadium.
     
  17. Cville K C

    Cville K C Member

    Nov 3, 2008
    Collinsville, IL
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Athletica defeats the Univ. of Illinois 4-0 in a closed scrimmage. Goals by Aluko, Larsen, Edlund, and Boxx according to twitter.
     
  18. FreeKicks

    FreeKicks New Member

    Sep 29, 2009
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Pride 4 Tempco 1 goals by Abily(2), Tantillo, Sinclair
     
  19. ForeverLOST108

    ForeverLOST108 Member+

    Jan 23, 2010
    Orlando
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Just got some more info:

    Carney, Rapinoe, Formiga, Asllani, and Chapman did NOT play. So 4 of the 5 Chicago internationals lol


    Anyone find the Freedom lineup yet?
     
  20. Cville K C

    Cville K C Member

    Nov 3, 2008
    Collinsville, IL
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I've heard nothing of Washington's lineup, outside of the two scorers. But from Twitter, I think Chapman just arrived today. I guess Carney is still rehabbing. From Carney... "Kate chapman is here :) looks tired bless her.be good to have her with the team.lil kossa to meet and formiga to arrive..not bad huh?" I'm assuming lil kossa refers to Kosovare Asllani.
     
  21. weipenguigumbi

    weipenguigumbi New Member

    Dec 4, 2007
    Yeah, Asllani and Chapman just arrived this weekend and Formiga is not there yet. Carney is rehabbing but just ran the beep test, apparently very well, this morning. Rapinoe is around but no one really talks about her injury status from her time at Algarve. So the assumed core of the midfield hasn't really even started to be shaped yet.

    Several of the CRS players and staff put out tidbits on their Twitter, sometimes daily, it's really the best way to get an idea of what's going on beyond much more sparse press releases. Hopefully they keep it up and decide that Asllani's nickname should infact be 'Kosaroni'.
     
  22. FreeKicks

    FreeKicks New Member

    Sep 29, 2009
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Marta arrived to the Pride, there's a pic on twitter
     
  23. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Don't have a complete lineup, but I looked through some photos and spotted Sauerbrunn, Marshall (#17), Whitehill, Wambach, McLeod, De Vanna, and Moros. Not sure who the players are in photos 8 and 9, though.
     
  24. Charbs21

    Charbs21 New Member

    Mar 17, 2009
    Northern Hemisphere
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Huffman is in the 8th photo and De Vanna again in 9.
     
  25. StarCityFan

    StarCityFan BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 2, 2001
    Greenbelt, MD
    Club:
    Washington Freedom
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's what I would have guessed, but I wasn't sure. In any case, it appears that Gabarra used the game to give his expected starters time to get used to each other, rather than as a tryout for new players.
     

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