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  1. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    I didn't follow NWSL enough this season to remember the details instead: can anyone fill me in about it?
     
  2. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    Orlando was very physical with her and caused her to tore her ACL. Orlando has been known to injure players of the opponents.
     
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  3. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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.
     
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  4. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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?
     
  5. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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.
     
  6. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.:eek::)
     
  7. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    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. :coffee:
     
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  8. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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.
     
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  9. kolabear

    kolabear Member+

    Nov 10, 2006
    los angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    • 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?!
     
  10. Smallchief

    Smallchief Member+

    Oct 27, 2012
    Club:
    --other--
    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.
     
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  11. kolabear

    kolabear Member+

    Nov 10, 2006
    los angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  12. Doogh

    Doogh Member+

    Oct 5, 2019
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  13. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Well, I mean:
     
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  14. Roger Allaway

    Roger Allaway Member+

    Apr 22, 2009
    Warminster, Pa.
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  15. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    A couple of people have said 11k, but nothing seems to be finalized. Basically what Louisville did.
     
  16. lil_one

    lil_one Member+

    Nov 26, 2013
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This report says capacity of 11,000.



    EDIT: x-posted :ninja:
     
  17. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    #2567 Klingo3034, Oct 26, 2021
    Last edited: Oct 26, 2021
    I think it’s also next to the new training facility as well.
     
  18. Ron36pc

    Ron36pc Member

    Sep 7, 2009
    Nacogdoches, TX
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  19. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
  20. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
  21. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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.
     
  22. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
  23. cpthomas

    cpthomas BigSoccer Supporter

    Portland Thorns
    United States
    Jan 10, 2008
    Portland, Oregon
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  24. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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.
     
  25. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
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