So how screwed are Orlando when Banda is gone

I don’t think Berna was aiming to have his call become a remix though

He kick the ball down the line Final decision is red card

Some of the sending-off offences for coaches/technical staff…delaying the restart by the opposing team is right at the top.

Ohhh that’s a red…just like the one Casey Stoney got when sitting on her cooler

re. LRS (or couple of them), another area where if the NWSL doesn’t listen to the people who build the league from the ground up, it will never be a league that’s truly for the people

I am going to write about this in a week or two, but NWSL and women's soccer in the US are about to face a pretty significant test of their support for trans people against some of the most ghoulish people in this country. I really hope they have a heart and a backbone.

My letter to @denversummitfc.bsky.social

Hell yeah Narumi!

Very hard to place the blame squarely on FIFA for allowing ads to be sold during pausas when the NWSL has had split screen ads during the games for a couple years now

Berman Parity™️ on display once again

Chilufya looked to be just a step off (and Borges definitely speaking some Portuguese with her countryman who's the referee)

In the US U20 camps she's been balling too

All of Woso coming to rescue them:

Rescue Jameese Joseph & Elise Evans from the Tsars

Hope everyone enjoyed that before tomorrow

I KNEW they would exploit that with Spence off the pitch…also a Dayot The Explorer run there @maggiemack.bsky.social

Kind of anticlimactic

Pretty easy call for Valenzuela there

I’m glad this one is fun because the vibes tomorrow will be rancid with Trump there, and it’s gonna be a snoozefest

Olise, svp

I get off work

I still hear “Natalie Maines” when her name comes up

Reign are doing what now

These things do even out though, I remember when Natalie Simon wrongly sent Aubrey off for DOGSO after waving play on initially and then last year vs Rahsing, the ref gave them a soft penalty despite not sounding convinced at any point during the review.

Look away, NC fans—PRO has released their Definitive Angle recap from last week and they say that they would have preferred no review, since they deemed that Shinomi wasn’t impacting another opponent or the wall (although they did acknowledge that the ref was not wrong by law to disallow the goal)

If you asked me which of our two championship game losses we could have a rematch of with full squads, without a doubt ‘24. Give us Andi, Croix, Ouleye and a non-pain caved Trin and we beat even *that* Orlando team.

@jgeralyn.bsky.social you’ve done it again!

Did nobody yell “man on” when Chawinga was charging down there because that was almost a disaster for Agudelo

lmao i dunno what just happened but it was very funny

It definitely had crossed the line before it hit Byars’ arm, nothing wrong with that

Smash. And. Grab.

*cries in Spirit fan who never got to see the best of CB7 with the rest of the squad

Today’s Portuguese lesson care of União Corinthians Femenino.

Good no-call in the box on that potential handball, wedged between her torso and elbow

🤝 (and also folks, Watch. College. Soccer.)

At what point does Trinity Byars for ROTY gain momentum

Mike and Lori have the week off?

I generally wasn’t the biggest fan of the religious overtones of this movie, but I still cry like a baby at several scenes, Maggie’s speech here included (especially given the stakes).

Throwback to one of the greatest things ever uttered on a podcast, by @courtneystith.com in 2024

Something to think about re. 2030 (and every time CAF stages an event in Morocco)

Parts of "The Odyssey" were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, defying requests from the Sahawari people. Advocates are now calling for a boycott of the film and what they say is its complicity with Morocco's occupation and cultural genocide.

NWSL ref appointments for the weekend: U20 WWC-bound Pennington (fka Nichols) has the Prime Video game tonight. Tsars-ACFC has an NWSL debut for Rodrigo Albuquerque, a Brazilian former college player based in Oklahoma now, and Hassan, who the Spirit see Sunday, was a scab during the MLS lockout.

The VAR coach’s challenge fix has already been tested to some extent at the U17/U20 levels with “Video Support”: • Each coach gets two challenges and only loses one if they’re unsuccessful • Fourth official checks all goals on pitchside monitor • No dedicated VAR official-just replay operator

Finally sent my updated Statement of Purpose to my business ethics professor from undergrad to review for possible grad school applications, and I may have used several JB missteps as examples, especially when it comes to negligence

And if I remember correctly she was the Spirit’s representative to a league mental health summit that Naomi Girma & Sinéad Farrelly organized in conjunction with Katie’s Save (and she was active with KS before that)

One of my teams re-signed a star player this summer 😌

Yes Lena! Glad she landed somewhere nice after the disaster that was the end of Spokane