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Zwachro posted:More Euro stuff: For some reason Norwegian companies are now sponsoring every major league in Scandinavia. OBOS has the naming rights to both the Norwegian Toppserien and the swedish Damallsvenskan from before.
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First round fixtures for the Scandinavian nations was a breeze for everyone. Norway beat Northern Ireland 6-0, Sweden squeezed by Latvia 4-1 and Denmark came away from Israel with 3-0. Also I just looked up the group Norway is in and they apparently re-did the rules this year so every nation gets to play and there's no pre-qualifiers as in previous years. So uhh.. This should be a cake walk. Group C: Norway (12), Wales (32), Belarus (54), Northern Ireland (59), Faroe Islands (85) FIFA rankings in parenthesis. Added bonus: Norway just beat England 2-1 in a friendly with a lovely goal by CGH. https://imgur.com/lBBgO9g
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Zwachro posted:Only if you don't include the Faroes in Scandinavia. Norway, Sweden and Denmark make up Scandinavia. The Faroes are part of the Nordic countries, along with Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Greenland and Åland.
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NRK is saying Kolbotn's keeper is going to Manchester United. https://twitter.com/applessquabble/status/1169846868982894592 It's going to be interesting seeing how Kolbotn fares in the later half of the season and if they make any moves before the next season to shore up their loses with Aurora going to ManU and Karina Sævik already having transferred to PSG.
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Mr. Mambold posted:How are Marta and Morgan there, but not England's White? What is this, a Hall of Fame ballot? The Dutch had some good attackers also. And Dunn was better than O'Hara. If it's anything like previous years the jury votes based on name recognition cause they don't know poo poo about womens football.
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Over in the Norwegian league, LSK Kvinner is most likely gonna secure their 6th Toppserien title in a row and 7th overall tomorrow when they play Kolbotn (7th place) and only need to walk away with a draw. Happily for me though Vålerenga has been doing real well this season and they have a chance to grab 2nd place, up from 6th and 7th in the previous years. Unfortunately though they've lost one of their top scorers, Natasha Dowie (11 goals), and they're still in a transition phase it feels like. They've got a lot of short-term contracts with good players that don't return, like Theresa Nielsen two years back and then the Isabell Herlovsen scandal last year. But Sherida Spitse re-upped until 2021 just before the World Cup so I'm hoping for a signal effect of that since she turned down Manchester United for it*, and it looks like Ajara Nchout is loving her stay so she'll hopefully remain with the squad. Dejana Stefanovic and Maruschka Waldus have also been two important signings, hopefully they'll stay as well. There's some good talent brewing in their own ranks too, although they're maybe a year or two away from becoming mainstays in the squad. *Due to family life, as she and her wife have a kid and they like Norway and she wouldn't be able to see them as much if she moved to Manchester, but hey. Grimson fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Norway news: LSK won the title, as expected.  They also advanced to the cup final where they'll face off against their main rival Vålerenga. And the Womens Football Association just announced that they've entered into a partnership with a private college to help professional footballers get a degree and still remain competitive. This was a major talking point last year when a national team player was barred from the last couple of World Championship qualifiers because she was getting a nursing degree and as part of it you need to take on a residency and the school refused to postpone it or help her make it work out until she went to the media about it. Then she dropped out the following summer and now she plays for Reading Women FC.
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highme posted:Let's check in on what's happening in France? They're also investigating the possibility of match fixing in the D1 after several players got DM's on Instagram promising them €100,000 in bitcoins, according to L'Equipe. quote:They offer 100,000 euros to rig a match in women's D1
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Zwachro posted:Meanwhile, the initial reports on the PSG thing seem to have been inaccurate. Difficult to find English sources, but the current police theory points to an ex of Hamraoui. Defector has a writeup of it with more detail. https://defector.com/the-totally-insane-story-about-the-attacked-psg-player-has-only-gotten-more-insane/
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So they managed to schedule the Ballon d'Or awards during the international break meaning all of the nominees for the women's award can't make it. You literally had one job.
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Ada is back on the national team. 
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22 minutes is all it took and now she's scored two goals.
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The eternal geniuses at the football federation decided to change the way the Norwegian women's league, Toppserien, works. The new system was postponed for two years due to corona, but it was finally implemented this year and it's a mess. Instead of having a normal winner and relegation playoff at the end of the season it's now split into a "regular season" where the ten teams play a regular set of matches against each other until the table is sorted and then divided into a Top Four group and a Bottom Six. The Top Four start the playoff with 6, 4, 2 and 0 points depending on where they ended up, and then they play two games against each other and the winner and runner-up gets the Champions League spots for next year. Meanwhile the Bottom Six gets joined by the Top Two from the 1st Division and they play to avoid relegation, with the #7 and #8 team getting relegated, while the #6 team plays a qualifier against the winner of the Bottom Eight in the 1st Division. Now that leaves 5 teams at least with not much to gain or lose from playing a new round of games as they're pretty safe from relegation and originally the thought was to give the best team in the Bottom Six the 2nd Champions League spot, so they have something to play for. But that was changed... uhhh... a week before the season started. Which kinda tracks with the intention of this change being to increase the co-efficiency of the Norwegian league in the UEFA rankings, by having the best teams in the league play more games against each other and thus get more practice against tougher teams. But there's so many downsides to this change and I think one of the coaches for one of the Top Four teams proposed just doing a playoff league with two best Swedish and Danish teams, which sounds infinitely better and more practical. NRK sent out a questionnaire to every team and player in the league and one (1) player was positive towards the new system.
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Grimson posted:The eternal geniuses at the football federation decided to change the way the Norwegian women's league, Toppserien, works. The new system was postponed for two years due to corona, but it was finally implemented this year and it's a mess. We're entering the final stage of the "regular season" and the supporter groups for five clubs (including three of the top clubs) are refusing to acknowledge the system. Which in effect means that they're boycotting all the matches in the Top Four-playoff and are calling it quits after August 28th.
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Ahahaha, the new league system is being undermined by one of the clubs that have nothing to play for. The top three are untouchable, but the much coveted fourth place is still up for grabs by four teams. Which leaves three teams with nothing to play for during the remainder of the regular season, and Arna-Bjørnar managed to score a training game with Chelsea ahead of the WSL starting up and as it stands they're set to travel to London and play the game on Friday at 11am, before they then travel to Oslo to play Lyn on Sunday. Lyn is well within striking shot of 4th place and now they're pretty much guaranteed the 3 points from that game as Arna-Bjørnar will be in no state to put up a fight after having played one of the best clubs in the world just two days previous, so obviously the Stabæk coach is livid and I expect Kolbotn, LSK and probably the rest of the league to join in soon as the Norwegian Football Federation apparently gave Arna-Bjørnar their blessing to schedule the match so close to a league game.
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https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1561305997574127617?s=20&t=WdVE33Pcdp9hrRxXaMvTxA Some interesting points here. And they all track coming from Norway where NFF said it was impossible to find a general sponsor for the league, only to have the league interest group (TFK) land the largest sponsorship deal for the league like two months after they were told they could have a go. Not to mention the new TV-rights deal for domestic football that was signed in 2020 where the women's league weren't allowed to have a single representative in the negotiations.
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habeasdorkus posted:I mean, look at the vast improvement Spain made in a very short period of time just by not having a bunch of misogynist assholes running their women's game. Speaking of Spain. https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1573248103800623104?s=20&t=KZxrmXTqAzSaU_g51EMRsw quote:Fifteen players on Spain’s national women’s soccer team have said they will not play under its current coach, sparking a public mutiny that drew a stern rebuke from the Spanish soccer federation. Grimson fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Angry Lobster posted:I've been bombarded with news about the spanish team drama for weeks and I still don't get what their point is, aside that they don't like the coach and want him replaced. The Federation has dealt with this in a pretty tactless way, as ever, however trying to strong-arm the Federation in public to accept your demands is not exactly a sensible choice either. Lack of respect and vision seems to be the main points. From the Guardian: quote:For some of those players, the reference to their emotional state, their health, was not empty words. There is no suggestion of inappropriate behaviour, but the relationship with Vilda had broken down – insofar as there was even a relationship at all, and the impact of that was detrimental to them all. Now the relationship with the federation has too, played out in public and only getting worse. A subsequent statement published by the players on Friday night deepened the divide. Worth remembering that the Spanish FA is complete trash and the previous coach, Ignacio Quereda, got the position in 1988 and held it until 2015(!). The job was widely seen as a "favour" from his friends at the RFEF and he was a complete rear end in a top hat who was only let go after the entire 23-woman squad from the 2015 WWC publicly asked for him to be fired. There's a thread here with excerpt from the docu about Ignacio and the team: https://twitter.com/OmVAsports/status/1454126071994015747?s=20&t=9qQlLcxe1XXzEiPyx-pk1g There's also some fun stuff happening on the higher level of the RFEF: quote:The standoff is the latest crisis in the turbulent tenure of Rubiales, the federation chief since 2018 who, in one of his first acts as president, fired the coach of Spain’s men’s national team on the eve of its opening match at the 2018 World Cup. More recently, Rubiales has been under scrutiny after leaked messages revealed a questionable management style and business practices. Rubiales’s uncle, whom he had appointed to his staff on the Spanish federation, has accused the soccer president of using soccer funds to pay for lavish private events. Rubiales has denied those claims.
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Defector has a huge article up on the Chicago Red Stars. How The Chicago Red Stars Became The Epitome Of NWSL Dysfunction
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Crazy Ted posted:Ah right. That would likely be due to the fact that the ELO-style ranking system that FIFA recently switched to places little weight on friendlies IIRC. They also don't update it immediately, the next one for women isn't until Dec 9th.
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New UWCL matchday, the first games starts in just under an hour. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrUQXESZrdvoJQVXjZDl9pr_Wd-_zc7dL 26. Oct - 18:45 (CEST) Real Madrid - PSG St. Pölten - Roma 26. Oct - 21:00 (CEST) Chelsea - Vllaznia Slavia Praha - Wolfsburg 27. Oct - 18:45 (CEST) Juventus - Lyon Rosengård - Barcelona 27. Oct - 21:00 (CEST) Arsenal - Zürich Benfica - Bayern
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Mariona Caldentey just did a screamer from midfield in the Rosengård game. It looked liked Rosengård would be able to hold on for a 2-1 loss or maybe a 2-2 tie, but I think Barca just secured the victory and they'll probably score again now.
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Could someone do a quick tl;dr post of the NWSL report, and the whole saga I guess? Since most of the websites talking about it are either blocked for me (a combination of gdpr and/or subscription services), and the rest expect you to remember details and names from years past which is a bit difficult when its not a league I follow closely.
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Crazy Ted posted:Just the nature of women's sports. IIRC female basketball players tear ACL's 4-5 times as often as their male counterparts. Mr. Mambold posted:Woman's ACL is a third the size, and so probably strength as well of man's. There was an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine late last year that looked at ACL injuries in women athletes and argued that the problem wasn't caused by their gender, but rather the way society treats them based on their gender. quote:This analysis, the authors write, should take into account the way extrinsic factors such as access to facilities (fields, gyms), staff (qualified physiotherapists, strength and conditioning coaches), equipment (footwear, warm-up programs), as well as wider systems and structures such as healthcare and medical insurance, youth development pathways, contracts, and professional standards all contribute to the increased risk of ACL injuries in women athletes. They go on to highlight a few things like the different toys they get during childhood: From day one, "gendered parenting … for example, purchasing different toys or allowing greater independent mobility for boys … could manifest as altered movement patterns in sport later in life," the study says. And how girls/women are told to look at their body and training: For example, ACL research overwhelmingly suggests resistance training and increasing muscle mass is one of the primary methods for strengthening knees and preventing ACL injuries. However, cultural expectations and stereotypes around femininity and how women's bodies should look often affect girls and women's participation in these kinds of activities. Not to mention that women are, in a lot of cases, using secondary or tertiary fields and pitches to practice on which are rarely up to standard: "The number of teams I see that train on the second field as a female team, but then the male team trains on the main pitch, so when we start to look at landing technique, they're landing on potholes.
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whypick1 posted:Today is the start of the SheBelieves Cup, a 4 team tournament between the US, Canada, Brazil and Japan, taking place in the US. All games air on HBO Max in English with some combination of Universo/Peacock/Telemundo App for the Spanish broadcast. Defector had the slam dunk headline of: "Canadian Women’s National Team Forced To Play In Women’s Empowerment Soccer Tournament".
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whypick1 posted:And now the WWC field is set, with Panama, Haiti and Portugal making it out of the playoff. Here's the 32 teams that will be in AUS/NZ this July/August: why do we always end up in the host nation group
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euro 2017: host group worlds 2019: host group euro 2022: host group worlds 2023: host group
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drat, though it doesn't come as a very huge shock considering the previous talk about the coach and Henry.
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I could probably wait for the official confirmation, but why do that when I can link an 8 second video showing you a hallway and some pillars. https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1641399610206765056?s=20
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That's a pretty wild goal from Popp. https://twitter.com/838_carlisle/status/1641487963602268190?s=20 Grimson fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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I'd forgotten all about English commentators.quote:"Are Lyon tested enough in the French league compared to Chelsea in the WSL?"  Are any of these English teams in the room with us right now?
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I don't even know how Gilles put that one into the net.
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Terminally Bored posted:Chelsea are going to lose this tie Really looks like Lyon has that next level gear that Chelsea just doesn't.
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