Vic Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Rosters are due 10 business days before the start of the tournament, which is today. World Cup Rosters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 FIFA obviously made sure they released this in time for the Women's Cup. No routine or mandatory testing, just in cases where there is sufficient concern. Appears they are concentrating on hormone levels. FIFA issues gender verification regulations for all competitions Upon the proposal of the FIFA Medical Committee, the FIFA Executive Committee has approved the FIFA Gender Verification Regulations at its meeting on 30 May 2011. The regulations will apply for all FIFA competitions with immediate effect. ... If a gender verification procedure is opened, the approach is stepwise: the respective team physician shall provide the documents required for further investigation, such as medical history, sex hormone levels, diagnosis, treatment and current findings. http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=1449540.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saviola7 Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 CSA twitter claims that we're playing North Korea and currently leading 1-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwntfan Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 True claims. First goal scored in the 3rd minute. Jonelle Filigno puts Canada up 2-0 32' minutes or so. Game being played in Roma. I am assuming behind closed doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 #35 Belgium beat North Korea a couple of weeks ago. Their odds are dropping fast and they're ranked below us now. This is a team that was 5th in the world a year ago. They're either that bad or playing patsy, and no one will have any idea until their opener against the Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 The Hungarians say we played 4-4-2. Lineup: Camp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlfan Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 If we name the players in the photo do we have our 21 World Cup Roster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 No, it was taken a while ago in Italy while the WPS players were MIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlfan Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Now that I put my glasses on it's obvious players are missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Against Canada today the Koreans changed their goalkeeper and 4 of the back 5 from their 0-2 loss to Germany a few weeks ago (Hong Myong-Hui, Ri Un-Hyang, Jong Pok-Sim, Ho Un-Byol, Kim Un-Ju). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlfan Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Link to results and fixtures leading to WWC tick women as the site defaults to men http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/results/index.html Today France is playing Belgium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Poll shows men are more excited about women’s World Cup Sixty-three percent of men surveyed are looking forward to the event from June 26 to July 17 compared to 43 percent of women, according to the poll conducted by German weekly Die Zeit. Sixty percent of men thought women’s football was attractive, compared to just 45 percent of women. http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/15/poll-shows-men-are-more-excited-about-womens-world-cup.html Women's football – pure joy (and much less diving) Ignore the wink wink headlines, the women's World Cup promises real excitement from truly great players such as Marta In just over a week, the women's World Cup opens in Germany with 16 fierce national teams competing for the sport's most prestigious prize. The lead story in international media? Five members of the German team posed for Playboy. "What better way to promote the women's World Cup than for your national side to show off their new strip?" winks the Daily Mail. What better way indeed. In the 20th anniversary year of the tournament, media coverage of the women's World Cup is patchy – except when it involves Playboy or how the jerseys Nike made for the US team "create a uniquely feminine silhouette" (really, can you imagine Nike promoting men's jerseys for their "uniquely masculine silhouette"?). Elsewhere, the headlines on women's football are awfully grim: the pro league in the US is fighting for its life; Chelsea Ladies could only bear funding cuts when the men's team made personal donations; Brazil's legendary Marta will never be taken as seriously as her male counterparts; and Fifa's ban on headscarves (and Iran's inflexible dress code) disqualifies the Iranian women's team from international competition. The FA is shutting down 20 "centres for excellence" where young female footballers train. Women playing in Afghanistan risk death threats. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/15/womens-football-world-cup-marta Club vs. Country Interesting article in German in which Potsdam coach Bernd Schröder discusses preparing his club team for the Champions League Final without his five German internationals, something he say's would never happen to Joachim Loew and the men's team. National women's coach Silvia Neid called the Frauen-Bundesliga clubs subcontractors of "raw materials," something sure to stoke the fire and cause problems down the road. Schröder responded by saying the World Cup does little for the women's league. http://www.taz.de/1/sport/fussball-wm-2011/artikel/1/liefern-und-kuschen/ German Odds & Ends Fatmire Bajramaj owns 200 pairs of shoes and Kertin Garefrekes hobby is geocaching. I kid you not. http://www.fr-online.de/sport/frauen-fussball-wm-2011/der-kontrapunkt/-/8487620/8556892/-/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlfan Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 France wins today http://www.fff.fr/selections/femininesa/actu/537996.shtml Google translation: FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 Success against Belgium (2-1)! To complete his preparation for the FIFA World Cup which begins in late June, Team France Women Played last two friendlies against Belgium. During the first round, scheduled Wednesday on the lawn of KSV Nieuwpoort, Bruno Bini players have emerged late in the game (2-1), with a brace signed Marie-Laure Delie. El Tri have resource! Led to the score after a nice sequence of which fooled Eleventh Bérangère Sapowicz a lob (1-0, 55th), partners Sandrine Soubeyrand reattachment to the score in the wake, Marie-Laure Delie heading in a shot to 6 meters far rejected by the crossbar (1-1, 57th). In endgame, Montpellier striker recurred, this time taking advantage of a scramble in the penalty area in Belgium, and finally give the victory to the Blue (2-1, 84th). Next meeting this Saturday, facing the same opponent on the lawn of Calais (20.45). New Zealand wins 2-0 vs Wales http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=11&tx_ttnews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 CSA puts up a guestbook: http://www.canadasoccer.com/go-canWNT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Pretty amazing and majestic tournament site from the CBC. This is 10 goals better than anything that's ever been done for soccer in Canada. Kudos to both John Molinaro and whoever there gave him budget to do this. Home Top Stories Team Previews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Panini's football stickers for women's World Cup prove to be a sellout First female range an unexpected success in host nation Germany, with demand forcing Italian firm to rush to print more To find out whether women's football is finally going mainstream, Fifa could commission a focus group. Or it could pay for an opinion poll, phoning 1,000 people to see how many can name a female player. But if officials want a simpler sign of a growing interest in women and the beautiful game, they could just head to a German school playground and see what the children are swapping at breaktime: stickers featuring players taking part in the forthcoming women's World Cup. According to sales figures from manufacturers Panini, 4.5m packets of stickers featuring the world's best female players have been snapped up since they went on the market a fortnight ago. The range has proved so (unexpectedly) popular that the Italian firm has had to rush to print a million more, according to a spokeswoman. ... Niels Barnhofer, media officer for the German national team, current women's world champions, said the home squad were feverishly collecting the stickers themselves. "Our players are very eager to collect the whole lot," he said. "They are big collectors and exchanging them has become a big thing among the team. They all want full albums, but it's difficult to get new cards at the moment because all the shops have sold out." The €2 scrapbook contains more than 40 pages featuring 17 players from each of the 16 teams. There are already dozens of online swap shops (Tauschbörse) for fans desperately trying to find missing numbers. ... The album is currently being offered for more than three times its cover price on Amazon Marketplace in Germany. The book and stickers look pretty much the same as their male-dominated counterparts, with one key difference: the women's stickers do not list the players' weight. "It's simply more charming like that," said Frölicher. Otherwise, it's business as usual: birthplace, date of birth, height and home team. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/16/panini-womens-world-cup-stickers The albums are available on the Germany eBay site if anyone is interested... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saviola7 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 ^ Picked up our sticker book today. The only Canadian we have so far is Timko, but I guess they are wearing the red Umbro kits. The Canadian roster is listed as: Leblanc, McLeod, Booth, Chapman, Gayle, Nault, Zurrer, Matheson, Moscato, Kyle, Schmidt, Wilkinson, Timko, Filigno, Scott, Sinclair, and Tancredi So they incorrectly guessed Booth which is not as bad as the Men's version last year who incorrectly included Ronaldinho, Beckham, and Ballack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 After a 20-minute delay, Canada's 49-member delegation arrived safely in Berlin just after noon today. The hotel is the Grand Hotel Esplanade Berlin which has availability. It's very modest for a 5-star at 109 euros a night, ranked top 4% in Berlin and a 10 minute walk from the center of town. In all honesty it's more a 4-star, with a disappointing pool, no hot tub or jacuzzi, and pricey internet and sauna, but the rooms are very pleasant. Seems it's a bit of a hotspot and maybe we can get some candid yfrogs: "The hallway trafic in the early to late evening is absolutely unacceptable to a family oriented traveler. Never did I leave the room after 8 p.m. that I did not see a prostitute in the hallway. Usually she was finalizing the location of her "date" via text, but always it meant walking around a business woman concluding a deal for the evening. It was obvious. I complained to the management and they simply said they did not try to "manage" the behavior of their guests and that their lobby bar was one of the most popular party spots in the city and they knew that young women and men came to the bar to find companionship for the evening." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Oh Vic you are being too prude! Just admire the landscape... Is this the hotel where our team is staying, I was not too clear on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 That it is. Looking forward to the delegation list to see who's made the trip. Hopefully some advance officials for 2015. Interesting comments from the NH hotel in Heidelberg. NH is a fantastic chain of hotels some of which often house royalty: One night we have four teams in the hotel which is a logistical challenge (Colombia, USA, New Zealand and Mexico). The double rooms usually equipped with a large bed with mattress all had to be rebuilt, because the football players want to sleep in twin beds. Then the delegations of the various nations - some 40 people - are of course located on one floor. The ladies have their own cooks however the hotel kitchen has still already received detailed specifications as regards to the nutrition of athletes. A football team also has more luggage than the usual tourist: jerseys, training suits, shoes and other equipment usually come in large metal boxes that need to be housed somewhere. And the laundry will be doing extra shifts to ensure everything is fresh the next day. The teams want to lack nothing during their stay. The hotel spa is exclusively available to them and in the lobby a "Players Lounge" is equipped with Internet access. A goal wall with the flags of the teams will welcome the delegations at the entrance. Training will occur at the Heidelberg sports centers that are then blocked for the teams expressly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Hold the fort. There are conflicting stories in the German press. Bild is reporting we are at the Hotel Schweizerhof near the zoo and Germany is checking into the Esplenade tomorrow. The Schweizerhof is about 25% more on the pocketbook, and although the rooms are more functional and the decor isn't as upbeat the hotel is more of a 5-star. Better pool, steam room, better ranking than the Esplenade too. Hotel Schweizer Hof | Tripadvisor Looks like we have our own bus too. Bild is also reporting the Germans will have an open training session beside the Olympic stadium for local fans. Should be interesting to see what the hijinks are in the hotel are the night before the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 VIC: I keep getting confused as to where in Berlin are our Canadian players staying. You have mentioned Esplanade, Schweizer and Heidelberg Hotels. I need to know specifically for a reason. Thanks. Asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Heidelberg is where four other teams are staying (Colombia, USA, New Zealand and Mexico). We're either at the Esplenade or the Schweizerhof depending on the accuracy of Bild versus the other papers. The press will likely have the answer tomorrow, but if you need to know sooner you could contact the concierge: Esplenade: info@esplanade.de Schweizerhof: h5347@accor.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Heidelberg is where four other teams are staying (Colombia, USA, New Zealand and Mexico). We're either at the Esplenade or the Schweizerhof depending on the accuracy of Bild versus the other papers. The press will likely have the answer tomorrow, but if you need to know sooner you could contact the concierge: Esplenade: info@esplanade.de Schweizerhof: h5347@accor.com Thank you Vic, I thought you were there in Berlin. Anyway, I called both hotels and could not get any information. This sucks! Will try again in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 The Germans are definitely arriving at the Esplenade lunchtime Tuesday, so we're probably at the Schewizerhof. And the open German training session is 6:00pm Tuesday at Olympic Park. Not sure if it's the main field or one of the perimeter ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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