I didn't follow NWSL enough this season to remember the details instead: can anyone fill me in about it?
Orlando was very physical with her and caused her to tore her ACL. Orlando has been known to injure players of the opponents.
Who else? I remember a Houston player (Daly) costing Mathias over a year for a push after a play was over. I remember a Portland player (Heath) bludgeoning Taylor Smith out of the championship game ten minutes in. Professional soccer is a rough game. Bad challenges and dirty play happen all the time.
Perhaps you also remember North Carolina bludgeoning Heath later in that game, with Heath continuing to play and then missing about the next six months with the injury?
Sure. Physical play is all around. A poster made an assertion that Orlando injures players. I'm just wondering what they base that on - and how that's different from other clubs - and that includes North Carolina. All things considered, I'm basically a neutral. I get paid by the NWSL - not any individual club.
Very good point. Suggestions that teams injure players or play extra rough or foul a lot often come from a very subjective place. I remember several years ago, posters were saying about Portland what has been suggested about Orlando. I did a research project and showed that Portland was the most fouled team in the league and was fouled more than they fouled the other team. One of the responses was along the lines of that Portland caused the other teams to foul them more, so the fact they were fouled more than any other team and were fouled more than they fouled was not relevant.
I agree with all you said, guys, but I suppose Nadim had to perceive something abnormal to hold such a chip on her shoulder, hadn't she? I repeat, I didn't watch that game, so I rely on what you all did see.
Well I'm sure @kolabear probably can say more, but many people around NWSL fandom have noticed that the Pride's opponents very, very frequently suffered a serious injury or two throughout the mid-late stretch of this season - and were not getting disciplined for it. Basically there's been a lot of reckless physical play this NWSL season, with a large amount of it coming from Orlando. And, as mentioned before, Nadim tore her ACL due to such a rough tackle, as opposed to it being a non-contact ACL tear. I think, regardless of how physical a team has been in general, if someone took me down such that I tore an ACL, I'd hold a bit of a grudge as well.
Morgan (Brian-now-) Gautrat (Chicago) on a tackle by Sydney Leroux Danielle Colaprico (Chicago) on a scissors by Taylor Kornieck Morgan Weaver (Portland) on a collision with Phoebe McClernon after a tackle by Jonsdottir (perhaps Orlando deserves less blame for this specific tackle but it came at the end of a very chippy, ill-tempered game) Nadia Nadim I've documented Orlando's pattern of fouling here at BigSoccer (especially and including Amy Turner who's lucky if she hasn't ended someone's season with the fouls she's committed). If you want to pretend they don't have a pattern or that some of us haven't put effort into documenting it, that's your business, but maybe show some respect for other fans at BigSoccer? They're not just making up what they see. A grumpy Kolabear did have more to say, didn't he?!
Injuries are inevitable, especially on 50/50 balls and slide tackles, where the difference between a spectacularly good defensive play and a serious foul is about two inches. I don't blame anybody for Mathias and Nadim's ACLs. The only real dirty game I recall was the 2017 NWSL championship and the perp was Portland. Both Heath and Raso deserved red cards. Late in the game Lynn Williams stomped on Heath's ankle. I don't know if it was payback or accidental, but Williams didn't apologize afterward. Probably the toughest player in the league is Zerboni who often leads the league in fouls. She usually gets compliments for her toughness.
If we're not going to blame anybody for injuries, why bother having red and yellow cards? Tough players aren't necessarily dirty players. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the game to equate "tough players" with dirty, dangerous fouls which should result in red cards all day, every day.
NEWS: KC NWSL and @portkc finalize plans for the first NWSL purpose-built stadium at Kansas City Riverfront.📰 https://t.co/vFaEgghbZe pic.twitter.com/dRdssuo58S— KC Current (@thekccurrent) October 26, 2021 Prime location. Five minutes from Downtown KC. How in the heck they managed to pull this off?
The story on the NWSL website never says the capacity, which leads me to guess that it's not a number that will knock your socks off. From the pictures, it looks like 7,000 or so.
This report says capacity of 11,000. The world’s first stadium built for a women’s professional team will be in downtown Kansas City.KC NWSL owners Angie and Chris Long will say more this afternoon, but here’s what I got from them for now: https://t.co/SWN0O9cVI6— Sam Mellinger (@mellinger) October 26, 2021 EDIT: x-posted
The Stadium will be located on the west side of I-35 & I-29 at Barkley Parkway, between Barkley Parkway and the Missouri River. An extension of the KC Streetcar will come from the River Market district on the north side of Downtown KC and, per the renderings run along the north side of the stadium site. The new training facility will be in Riverside, MO, which is about 6 miles or so to the northwest. The stadium location is an up and coming area of the city, at the east end of Berkeley Riverfront park, adjacent to hundreds on new apartments in multistory buildinga, the very trendy BarK dog bar (dogs pay cover charge, while their owners get in for free, but have to pay for food & drinks), and then, just east across I-35 is the Bally's KC Casino. You can watch the news conference here although I found the sound volume to be very low, or nonexistent. Stadium capacity is 11,000 and expandable, Financing is all private equity, although the PortKC (local port authority) will own and lease the land to the franchise in a 50 year deal.
Interesting new development in terms of player benefits: Racing is covering fertility treatments for its players https://theathletic.com/2914479/202...-with-health-benefits-for-fertility-services/
10.30.2021🎟️ https://t.co/tc4jNoxGya pic.twitter.com/oS9jgPnn2V— KC Current (@thekccurrent) October 27, 2021
News from earlier today: Burleigh has withdrawn her name from consideration for the Pride's head coaching position. Not the best visuals, considering how much energy she brought in when she started. To be fair, that momentum was short-lived as ORL's last four games have all been losses, so I wonder if this was actually management saying "no"... And, of course, it could be that she didn't feel great about the current state of the NWSL right now either.
This appears to be going about as well as it can. Hopefully the league comes out of it stronger and the expansion sides next year move the momentum back in a positive direction. https://www.cbssports.com/nwsl/news...-only-the-beginning-to-transforming-the-nwsl/
I just saw that the Womens International Champions Cup (WICC) tournament will again be at Providence Park in Portland from August 12 to 21, 2022.
I'm not surprised the ICC wants to return to Portland. As a private tournament, they'll want to go where they can get the highest attendance just for the ROI.
Power. Lives. Here. We are the Kansas City Current. #TealRising pic.twitter.com/sK46epCUnL— KC Current (@thekccurrent) October 31, 2021 I like it!