Bro WHAT 🙈

Would have been a coin flip between her and Jas Aikey for who would’ve gone #1 overall if there was still a draft, but they would have ended up on the Tsars playing Feuzball™️. Fortunately the draft is a relic of the past now.

Um…Dudley is heating up just in time for this game on Wednesday 😬

Tough to predict who would forgo their remaining eligibility but Izzy Engle would have to be close to the top of any rankings if she puts up numbers like her first two years (19G each of her first two seasons in South Bend)

KC, have some shame

Al Michaels hit the nail on the head years ago re. fireworks displays at sporting events and he continues to be vindicated

More Berman Parity™️ on display in Pawtucket, wtf was that by the Tsars

Berman Parity™️

I know there was a weather delay but Orlando…where is everyone

Kids, don’t appeal for a penalty while you still have the ball and can make something happen

Unlike other football governing bodies, PRO usually always sticks with “high bar for intervention” for VAR regardless of whether there are superstars on either of the teams so understand why that was “check completed”

Traoré wreaking havoc already

Monday and Deb!

What was Unai doing there

Ballgame

What have they been feeding CDK lately

Well that France-Spain semi will be must-watch TV

We have a Swedish “dag bok [day book]” at my house which documents a lot of my early years and low and behold, there’s an entry in my dad’s handwriting on July 10, 1999 for watching this game. I have no memory of it whatsoever but my dad was ahead of the game.

Players I was impressed with were Micayla Johnson, Lizzie Boamah (at CB instead of OB, which she plays at Stanford), Hope Munson off the bench & Katie Scott—no Touray today but maybe on Sunday.

Ends 1-1 between the US and England U20 WNTs–US had a couple big chances towards the end but couldn't connect, and they face Colombia on Sunday next

Oh Sealey Strawn almost got the winner just now…hit the post with an open goal to shoot at

Line change for the US now before we have a pausa: ⬆️ Aven Alvarez (UNC), Peyton McGovern (FSU), Pearl Cecil (UVA), Audrey McKeen (Rahsing) & Keeley Titmus (PSU, GK change) ⬇️ Ella Bard, Katie Scott, Alex Buck, Y-Lan Nguyen & Evan O'Steen

Munson just ran 50 yards and almost capped it off with a goal but it was blocked

Turned it off for dinner but great Micayla Johnson goal from an impossible angle to make it 1-1 after they trailed early! Tsars fans will love that.

This is starting right now! Commentator did not give the XI but this what I made out: Evan O’Steen (GK) (L-R) Emma Johnson Lizzie Boamah Ella Bard Katie Scott Y-Lan Nguyen Addison Halpern Micayla Johnson Sofia Cedeño Onyeka Gamero Alex Buck

morocco made it to halftime 0-0, thanks to an mbappé pk that was saved, but quality showed in the second half as a 2-0 win books a spot in the semifinal for

Too bad Deb is likely going to be on WAFCON duty because I was looking forward to seeing her dispossess 🥔. I trust Andi & Hal though 💪

Oh 🥔 making her Denver debut the week before their trip to Audi…get ready to face off against some real midfielding-ass midfielders, Lindsey

Teams can do that?

PSA: Baby USWNT vs England tonight from the new training center in GA does appear that it’ll be streamed. I will certainly be tuning in to watch the stars of tomorrow.

And she comes from Fleury 91 too, where we definitely have some inroads (Annaïg Butel plays there now and Inès Jaurena played there after leaving the Spirit, and we signed Rose from there)

Have never heard of Monique Ngock before but I have learned to never doubt the same scouting department that got us Rosemonde Kouassi, Rebeca Bernal, Sofia Cantore & Lucia Guglielmo so bienvenue, Monique!

Why is every “creator” using these ChatGPT graphics, especially progressive-leaning ones…the free version of Canva is right there and it’s easy enough to use that you feel like a professional graphic designer

I just want to say, while we’re on the subject: ALL of our youth sports, in one way or another, are too expensive & have too high of a barriers of entry - not just soccer. + we should reform our youth sports not with the goal to win a mWC, but with the goal to provide opps to play for all kids

Oh yeah? Explain the BYU Women. I’ll wait.

There is a huge overlap between rich evangelicals and people who can pay the thousands of $ to get their kids into elite travel soccer to get in front of college scouts to maybe get a D1 scholarship…it’s how we get Korbin Alberts

also *very* weird to me to say "this sport belongs to the rest of the world, we're not ever gonna be serious enough about it to win, also our women win a lot but ignore that because the men"

The video is 11 minutes long. Don't give Graham Platner the attention. Just don't do it.

Former Spirit Lena Silano’s most recent team

Perry Kitchen

Bet she took every penny of that settlement though

I look forward to meeting a few folks again 1) the group of guys from my lunch table who made fun of me for being a Liverpool fan in the early/mid-2010s, now that we’ve won everything 2) the other folks who I convinced to go support the gsoc team junior/senior year and tell them about the Spirit

Got an invite today to my *TEN* year HS reunion in the fall HEEEEEEEEEEELP, how has it been that long

My sister is en route to Australia now to visit one of her good friends from college and her flight from LAX to SYD left at 2:30 this morning our time and is still going…idk how some of y’all did that trip in 2023, I’m tired just thinking about it

If Todd Boehly, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Stan Kroenke or Sheikh Mansour wanted to sign Alexia for their clubs, they could have thrown the bag at her 👇

(whisper) Kang hate doesn’t quite make sense to me. Is she perfect? Doubt it. But she puts up the money to support her players and the teams she owns, invests in the growth of the game from a research & medical standpoint, and invests in other women’s teams. And actually shows up to games. So…? 🤷🏾‍♀️

tbh I did not interpret her words as restarting best league discourse but as a warning shot from kang to the league and other NWSL owners

Anyway Michele…Lily Yohannes homecoming or bust. Do something for your first-born.