Those stats are wrong though. Caro has two goals in the Bundesliga. The goal she scored in the last game against Köln has not been added. She also has five assists in that competition, but that goes unnoticed to most people as it isn't listed everywhere. Caro has been through a dry spell when it comes to scoring, missed some unbelievable chances, which happens to most players from time to time, but is the go-to-player when you want to break down tightly organized defences and create openings for others, and Wolfsburg will meet a lot of those teams after the winter break. Wolfsburg's style hasn't changed much if you ask me. It's a continuation of Kellermann's work. The lists probably aren't biased or anti anything. The woso coverage is like the men's game in the 1960s and 70s. People watch the major NT championships on tv and read stats from club football abroad to form an opinion. Very little is available to the general public. Apart from the big NT tournaments, the list makers have probably only seen half of their Top 100 players on a couple of gifs on twitter.
This can't wait until the Friday update: Dutch captain Sherida Spitse has signed for Vålerenga. She teams up with former colleagues at LSK like Isabell Herlovsen and coach Monica Knudsen. We might see LSK dethroned next year. Other top clubs have only reeled in small fish so far.
new 100 poll out, I call it the Empire......uh, FIFA strikes back! Caro got #37, two below my fave, Julie Ertz, one ahead of Fran Kirby. Ada makes it to the top 10, Lieke Martens regains numero uno The 2017 #ORP100 pic.twitter.com/umKEPBirmS— The Offside Rule (@OffsideRulePod) December 22, 2017 click again on the list to make it bigger
Andrea Norheim moving from Lyon up north to Piteå. Good signing for them, they're always defensively strong but lacking in attacking power.
Interesting signing. I'm curious to know where Norheim stands at the moment. She never truly set Toppserien alight, and her transfer to Lyon was quite shocking. She hasn't been all that impressive for Norway's U19 NT who flopped in the Euro qualifiers earlier this year either. She has basically only played reserve team football over the last year or so.
Norway's friendly with Scotland on January 19th should feature the return of two time NWSL mvp, Kim Little, http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/15800287.All_systems_go_for_Shelley_Kerr_and_Scotland/ both squads are similar that they've considerably under achieve for the seemingly strong talent that they got on paper;
Happy new years everyone! Silly Season Friday again. International signings being completed as we speak. Some return home from college. Interesting weeks ahead now. Arna Bjørnar IN: OUT: Alyssa Giannetti (gk, unknown dest.), Emma Fletcher (mf, unknown dest.), Ingrid Altermark (fw, Sandviken), Ine Wedaa (fw, Fyllingsdalen), Guro Pettersen (gk, Vålerenga) Avaldsnes IN: Morgan Stearns (gk, Sundsvall) OUT: Elise Thorsnes (fw, Canberra United on loan), Katlynn Fraine (gk, Växjö), Emily Gielnik (fw, Brisbane Roar), Chloe Logarzo (mf, Sydney FC), Gema Simon (df, unknown dest.), Ingrid Ryland (df, Djurgården) Grand Bodø IN: OUT: Christina Burkenroad (back to America), Birna Kristjansdottir (gk, unknown dest.), Trine Skjelstad Jensen (student in Australia) Klepp IN: Sandra Simonsen (fw, Fløya), Kindsey Burke Harris (gk, Hafnarfjardar), McKenzie Berryhill (df, Orlando Pride) OUT: Maria Hiim (mf, Røa), Oda Bogstad (gk, Lyn) Kolbotn IN: Naomi Griffin (fw, Kongsvinger), Sara Idris (mf, Urædd) OUT: Juliette Kemppi (fw, unknown dest.), Sanna Svensson (df, unknown dest.) LSK Kvinner IN: Ingrid S. Engen (mf, Trondheims-Ørn) OUT: Ingrid Spord (mf, Fiorentina), Ryoko Takara (back to Japan), Marte Berget (fw, Vålerenga), Lene Lauve (gk, Fart) Lyn IN: Vilde Hasund (fw, Røa), Louise Normann (df, Medkila), Oda Bogstad (gk, Klepp) OUT: Røa IN: Maria Hiim (mf, Klepp), Frida Lyshoel (df, Vålerenga), Synne Christiansen (fw, Vålerenga), Maren Jakobsen (gk, Fløya) OUT: Lisa Marie Utland (fw, Rosengård), Vilde Hasund (fw, Lyn), Shade Pratt (fw, unknown dest.) Sandviken IN: Synne Raa (mf, Fana), Ingrid Altermark (fw, Arna Bjørnar) OUT: Karoline Bakke (retiring), Sunniva Lillestøl (retiring), Sofie Skjelstad Jensen (studying in Australia), Sofie Bloch Jørgensen (injured, back to Denmark) Stabæk IN: Guro Bergsvand (mf, Berkeley University), Siri Ervik (gk, Santa Clarita Blue Heat) OUT: Trine Rønning (retiring), Victoria Ludvigsen (mf, Vålerenga), Mina Kjørum (fw, Fart), Stine Reinås (df, Vålerenga) Trondheims-Ørn IN: Elin Åhgren Sørum (fw, Fløya), Malin Sunde (df, Fortuna Ålesund), Tuva Minde (df, Stjørdals Blink) OUT: Ingrid S. Engen (mf, LSK Kvinner), Marit Clausen (retiring) Vålerenga IN: Marie Dølvik Markussen (fw, Wolfsburg), Marte Berget (fw, LSK Kvinner), Guro Pettersen (gk, Arna Bjørnar), Isabell Herlovsen (fw, Jiangsu Suning), Victoria Ludvigsen (mf, Stabæk), Stine Reinås (df, Stabæk), Sherida Spitse (mf, Twente) OUT: Gunnhildur Jonsdottir (mf, unknown dest.), Aivi Luik (mf, unknown dest.), Stephanie Verdoia (fw, unknown dest.), Frida Lyshoel (df, Røa), Synne Christiansen (fw, Røa), Jennie Nordin (df, Växjö), Michelle Betos (gk, unknown dest.), Elise Krieghoff (fw, unknown dest.)
you know the BS board is dying when Bauser has not reported yet the Elise Thornes hat trick over at the Australian W-League nor/neither blissett on Kinga's one goal!
I blame it on the time zone problem. I've also been busy watching winter sports on TV. Good to see Elise have success first time playing abroad.
Despite winning their first ever trophy in November, there has been turmoil recently at Avaldsnes. Head coach Per Inge Jacobsen and his assistant Kent Michael Bøe have left the club because they didn't accept that the club's newly assigned sports manager Lena Tyriberget, currently coaching the U17 NT, should have the final say in team selections. Avaldsnes approached Klepp's successful coach Olli Harder about a transfer, but he didn't accept that role either. Now we'll have to wait and see if any coach at all accepts a role like that. A number of players have also expressed their negative opinions about the board's leadership at Avaldsnes, most notably Ingrid Ryland who left the club. Arne Utvik will need to sort this out soon. Seven head coaches in five seasons shows something is not right at Avaldsnes. It will be hard to take those final steps towards the top in the Norwegian game with so much inconsistency. Most of the foreign players from last season won't return in March and Avaldsnes don't look like winners on the transfer market so far this winter.
As for Kinga, I just properly celebrated her on Nadeshiko thread : was waiting for highlights, that were strangely quite late on Aussie-League website.
They've been a bit of a mess since Utvik took over, haven't they? I believe I saw it stated (by Mjelde?) they're the only fully professional team in Norway as well, so it certainly hasn't been the resources that've been lacking, either.
To put it simple; no Arne Utvik and no Avaldsnes in Toppserien. His financial support has been decisive to their success. He has been there since the days in the 3rd division. But as the club has established itself at the top in Norway, new challenges arise. Whether he and the board have what it takes to bring the club further forward is a question still unanswered. Critics say there is also a touch of nepotism at Avaldsnes. Utvik himself and also other board members have daughters in the squad. This can cause problems in fields such as player selections.
This is mostly what I was referring to. Sure, they wouldn't be in Toppserien without him, but most likely they'd also be less of a mess. If you'd given the resources he's invested in Avaldsnes to a well managed club and stayed out of the way people who ran things they'd probably have taken gold by now.
The double Italy games away for the U17 NT in the winter is beginning to look like an annual tradition. Three or four years in a row now.
We should mix it up and have them play in Norway every other time. Maybe somewhere like Tromsø, I'm sure the southerners would enjoy that!
Avaldsnes have just signed American-Brazilian Cristiane Lessa as new coach. She will be sort of an understudy to sports manager Lena Tyriberget, who will have the final say on team selections. A quite experimental solution, if you ask me. What separates this silly season winter to the one last year is deeper coaching staff recruitments. With the new millions injected in Norwegian woso, we've seen recently retired players sign up as player development coaches. Clubs couldn't afford that earlier. Stabæk just added Ingvild Stensland to their staff. Solveig Gulbrandsen and Trine Rønning now at Kolbotn. Cecilie Berg Hansen joins Hege Riise's staff at LSK. More to follow. Arna Bjørnar IN: Kristina Brudvik, (fw, Bønes) OUT: Alyssa Giannetti (gk, unknown dest.), Emma Fletcher (mf, unknown dest.), Ingrid Altermark (fw, Sandviken), Ine Wedaa (fw, Fyllingsdalen), Guro Pettersen (gk, Vålerenga) Avaldsnes IN: Morgan Stearns (gk, Sundsvall) OUT: Elise Thorsnes (fw, Canberra United on loan), Katlynn Fraine (gk, Växjö), Emily Gielnik (fw, Brisbane Roar), Chloe Logarzo (mf, Sydney FC), Gema Simon (df, unknown dest.), Ingrid Ryland (df, Djurgården) Grand Bodø IN: OUT: Christina Burkenroad (back to America), Birna Kristjansdottir (gk, unknown dest.), Trine Skjelstad Jensen (student in Australia) Klepp IN: Sandra Simonsen (fw, Fløya), Kindsey Burke Harris (gk, Hafnarfjardar), McKenzie Berryhill (df, Orlando Pride) OUT: Maria Hiim (mf, Røa), Oda Bogstad (gk, Lyn) Kolbotn IN: Naomi Griffin (fw, Kongsvinger), Sara Idris (mf, Urædd), Anja Rasmussen (df, Medkila) OUT: Juliette Kemppi (fw, unknown dest.), Sanna Svensson (df, unknown dest.) LSK Kvinner IN: Ingrid S. Engen (mf, Trondheims-Ørn) OUT: Ingrid Spord (mf, Fiorentina), Ryoko Takara (back to Japan), Marte Berget (fw, Vålerenga), Lene Lauve (gk, Fart), Mimmi Löfwenius (fw, Lyn) Lyn IN: Vilde Hasund (fw, Røa), Louise Normann (df, Medkila), Oda Bogstad (gk, Klepp), Mimmi Löfwenius (fw, LSK Kvinner) OUT: Lotta Fennefoss (df, Stabæk) Røa IN: Maria Hiim (mf, Klepp), Frida Lyshoel (df, Vålerenga), Synne Christiansen (fw, Vålerenga), Maren Jakobsen (gk, Fløya), Svava Ros Gudmundsdottir (mf, Breidablik) OUT: Lisa Marie Utland (fw, Rosengård), Vilde Hasund (fw, Lyn), Shade Pratt (fw, unknown dest.), Gunhild Herregården (df, retiring), Marita Iversen (mf, studying abroad) Sandviken IN: Synne Raa (mf, Fana), Ingrid Altermark (fw, Arna Bjørnar) OUT: Karoline Bakke (retiring), Sunniva Lillestøl (retiring), Sofie Skjelstad Jensen (studying in Australia), Sofie Bloch Jørgensen (injured, back to Denmark) Stabæk IN: Guro Bergsvand (mf, Berkeley University), Siri Ervik (gk, Santa Clarita Blue Heat), Lotta Fennefoss (df, Lyn) OUT: Trine Rønning (retiring), Victoria Ludvigsen (mf, Vålerenga), Mina Kjørum (fw, Fart), Stine Reinås (df, Vålerenga), Cecilie Dekkerhus (df, retiring) Trondheims-Ørn IN: Elin Åhgren Sørum (fw, Fløya), Malin Sunde (df, Fortuna Ålesund), Tuva Minde (df, Stjørdals Blink) OUT: Ingrid S. Engen (mf, LSK Kvinner), Marit Clausen (retiring) Vålerenga IN: Marie Dølvik Markussen (fw, Wolfsburg), Marte Berget (fw, LSK Kvinner), Guro Pettersen (gk, Arna Bjørnar), Isabell Herlovsen (fw, Jiangsu Suning), Victoria Ludvigsen (mf, Stabæk), Stine Reinås (df, Stabæk), Sherida Spitse (mf, Twente), Ingrid Schjelderup (mf, Fiorentina) OUT: Gunnhildur Jonsdottir (mf, unknown dest.), Aivi Luik (mf, unknown dest.), Stephanie Verdoia (fw, unknown dest.), Frida Lyshoel (df, Røa), Synne Christiansen (fw, Røa), Jennie Nordin (df, Växjö), Michelle Betos (gk, unknown dest.), Elise Krieghoff (fw, unknown dest.)
Looks like that the adventure of the player in Italy lasted only 1 month, but when I read that she didn't come back to Firenze after the Christmas vacation for "family reasons", the signing for a local club would have been the logical outcome... I wonder why which has been the real reason of this decision, but probably we won't ever know... On the other hand Ingrid Spord played 90' and scored her first goal for Fiorentina in the 4-0 win away vs. Res Roma.
How's Isaksen doing at Juve? Apparently she's a defender now: #JuventusWomen Starting XI #JuveChievo pic.twitter.com/41fAgyz1fz— VecchiaSignora Women 🤍🖤 (@VS__Women) January 13, 2018