Olympique_de_Marseille Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 http://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-names-23-player-selection-to-compete-at-fifa-women-s-world-cup-canada-2015--p157698 GK- Stephanie Labbé | unattached / sans clubGK- Karina LeBlanc | USA / Chicago Red StarsGK- Erin McLeod | USA / Houston DashD- Kadeisha Buchanan | USA / West Virginia UniversityD- Allysha Chapman | USA / Houston DashD- Robyn Gayle | unattached / sans clubD- Carmelina Moscato | unattached / sans clubD- Marie-Eve Nault | unattached / sans clubD- Lauren Sesselmann | USA / Houston DashD- Rhian Wilkinson | USA / Portland Thorns FCD- Emily Zurrer | unattached / sans clubM- Jessie Fleming | CAN / London NorWest SCM- Selenia Iacchelli | unattached / sans clubM- Kaylyn Kyle | USA / Portland Thorns FCM- Ashley Lawrence | USA / West Virginia UniversityM- Diana Matheson | USA / Washington SpiritM- Desiree Scott | ENG / Notts County Ladies M- Sophie Schmidt | unattached / sans clubF- Josée Bélanger | unattached / sans clubF- Jonelle Filigno | USA / Sky Blue FCF- Adriana Leon | USA / Chicago Red StarsF- Christine Sinclair | USA / Portland Thorns FCF- Melissa Tancredi | USA / Chicago Red Stars The roster is pretty much what I expected. The only player I wasn`t sure about was Iacchelli, but who would you replace her with? What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Bob Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I'd have taken Beckie over Iacchelli, if it was my team. But I'm not losing any sleep over the 23rd woman. You could have guessed 20 of these 23 this time last year. The only surprise, besides Iacchelli, is the way Lawrence and Chapman have played themselves onto this roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Quick, name me 23 other adult women in Canada who play soccer more than twice a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Nkem Ezurike should have been selected by Herdman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeanneMac Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Loving the roster!! Beckie would`ve been a nice addition. Will be interesting to how Lacchelli does over the summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Herdman selected 8 players that have no club. Is this a good decision, to name players who are not regularly playing for any team? Are we so poor on players who at least play somewhere? There are other Canadian ladies in the NWSL not chosen and hundreds elsewhere. I honestly question some of Herdman's picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I think we had 10 in London. The problem is if you aren't one of the few salaried players you have no options to earn income in North America and limited abroad. Marquis players can earn good money overseas but if you aren't a brand name you would have to support yourself. Most people in women's soccer have to do that, it's just very difficult abroad because of work visa requirements. It's a chicken and egg riddle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Herdman selected 8 players that have no club. Many don`t have a club on purpose to prepare for the tournament. Schmidt for example: “[Canadian] midfielder Sophie Schmidt decided not to play this season in order to focus on the World Cup, http://rednationonline.ca/Articles2015/Breakdownof13CanadianallocationsintheNWSL.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Many don`t have a club on purpose to prepare for the tournament. Schmidt for example: http://rednationonline.ca/Articles2015/Breakdownof13CanadianallocationsintheNWSL.aspx This. Isn't Wambach doing the same thing? 3 years ago, our team was Unattached FC and won bronze. I'm not saying that it's the way to go, but all these unattached players were playing pro last year aside from Iacchelli and Bélanger, and the latter was playing W-League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Many don`t have a club on purpose to prepare for the tournament. Schmidt for example: http://rednationonline.ca/Articles2015/Breakdownof13CanadianallocationsintheNWSL.aspx So because 8 players need to focus they don't play in any league? I can understand the odd one, but 8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tc-in-bc Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 The 2015 Pan Am games begins one week after the 2015 WWC ends ( soccer games to be played in Hamilton). John Herdman said that Canada's team would be mostly kids mixed in with a few veterans. Currently, there's a camp in Vancouver/Burnaby (scheduled for May) to determine the U 23s who will be part of the Pan Am games team. On the senior side, players without clubs and NCAA national team players are available to be added to the Pan Am games team after the WWC.( After the WWC all of the allocated players of the CANWNT will be going back to the NWSL and Desiree Scott will be going back to Notts County in th FAWSL.) Stated differently, some of these sans club players are probably earmarked for the Pan Am Games team. It should also be noted that Mexico will be bringing their full National team to this tournament and that their 4 allocated players won't be returning to the NWSL after the WWC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Top level is just the start for young Jessie Fleming Morris Dalla Costa, The London Free Press May 5, 2015 The voice on the other end of the line is somewhat hoarse just at the tail end of a cold. The voice sounds weary. It’s exactly as it should sound, the voice belonging to a young woman who has gone through an emotional and physical maelstrom attempting to make a dream come true under circumstances that would cause no end of anxiety for most 17-year-olds. But the weariness is the only thing that has changed with Jessie Fleming since she began her extraordinary soccer adventure so long ago. Oh, and one other thing has changed. She is, officially, a member of Canada’s team that will play in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015.Fleming was named to the team last week, one of the youngest players to be named to a Cup team for Canada. When you consider the quality of women’s soccer in this country and the success the women have had internationally, the battle to make the roster is as intense as making any men’s team in any nation. Fleming’s skill got her noticed and selected. Her determination allowed her to survive. Five months ago Fleming lived in London. Her soccer talents meant she did a lot of travelling and playing. In a two-year span she’d played multiple tournaments, including two FIFA World Cups at the U17 and U20 levels. She also was given the opportunity to play with the senior national team. But Fleming would always wind up back home as her base. But when January 2015 rolled around, Fleming left the comfort of home and ensconced in Vancouver, where she would toil for the next five months to train, seeking the ultimate goal of earning a spot on the World Cup roster. It’s a goal every Canadian soccer player seeks. Fleming would compete against women who have been striving for that goal for years, women five, 10, 15 years older. “The hard part people can’t get their head around; she’s the only one studying. She’s in the middle of high school courses,” her father John said. “No one else is studying. She’s training two times a day sometimes. You get a couple of off days but when they are done training, they are out downtown Vancouver shopping, chilling, watching a movie . . . she has to study and she’s tired. “But she recognizes the opportunity that’s in front of her. She loves the game, loves the group so much it’s pretty easy to get motivated.” It’s what completes the Fleming package. There are players with talent but not enough desire. There are players with desire but not enough talent. There are players with both but then they don’t have the strength to get where they want to go. Fleming has it all. In the end, it earned her the coveted Canada shirt. “I was trying not to think too much about selection and just do what you can day-by-day,” Fleming said, home on a 10-day break. “Obviously it’s in the back of everyone’s mind but you can’t focus too much on it over two months when you have a game the next day or whatever you have to do.” Fleming played well in international friendlies and tournaments scoring her first senior women’s goal against Scotland. While some might consider her age a disadvantage, when you couple it with her ability the national team staff recognized that the time to allow her to gain inimitable experience was at the World Cup. While many experts believed inevitable she would make the roster, taking anything for granted in this sport is unhealthy. It was a relief to see her announced to the Canada roster in Vancouver on Monday. Fleming was told she’d made the team a few days before during individual coach/player meetings. “I didn’t know how to react,” she said. “I was overwhelmed. I was happy and excited. I thought I’d been playing well and getting lots of time but there are so many talented players in that group you never know.” Fleming’s talent has been lauded and analyzed. At one time head coach John Herdman said it was “off the charts.” But the word ‘satisfied’ doesn’t appear to be in Fleming’s lexicon. “Playing exhibition game against teams like France or Germany made me realize how good I want to be,” she said. “I want to get better everywhere in the game not just at one specific thing. Obviously there’s things I need to improve but I just really want to push to be that world class player over the years.” Being a world class Canadian athlete brings its own kind of added pressure. It doesn’t take long to surf the internet about Fleming and you get the kind of headlines of hope that greet most Canadian stars. “Is Fleming the next Christine Sinclair,” trumpeted one headline. Fleming has been tagged as the next great hope for women’s soccer. “I try not to focus on articles like that. I don’t really read them,” Fleming said. “I don’t know if it’s any more pressure me. It’s exciting to have so many years to get better and grow. I guess I’m just looking to getting to that level of being the world class player I want to be.” Fleming says having the time at home was important. “She hasn’t changed much,” her dad John said. “Once she’s home for a couple of days, she’s the same kid goofing around in the back yard. She still gets excited about the same stuff.” But he says from training and diet perspectives, Fleming doesn’t take any time off. “Her eating habits are phenomenal,” he said. “A lot of the women are vegetarian or really health conscious . . . not that she wasn’t a healthy eater before but she has very, very good eating habits. That’s something that’s gone down a good path.” So even though time at home is good she’s already “ready to go” for whatever comes next. What’s next is training in Los Angeles to start and then at high altitude in Mexico. “She’s really become good friends with that group and can’t wait to get back with them,” John said. “There’s the initial shock and ‘wow’ moments back in Brazil (her first senior cap) and as you get together with them in camps. But after living with them and spending the last four months doing everything with them, I think she’s forgotten that she’s 17.” No doubt being accepted into a situation with so many veteran players that have lived and played with each other for years has gone a long way in easing any misgivings Fleming had allowing her to concentrate on playing soccer. “It’s turned into an older sister kind of relationship,” Fleming said. “I definitely formed more and more of a bond the more time I spent with them. We do team pot lucks (dinners) all the time. We’ll do little team events; go to breakfast together, go to movies together. We’re a really tight knit group.” There is still a month before the World Cup begins. While Fleming is on the roster there is no certainty on how much she is going to play. It depends on numerous things including injuries and who is in form. Fleming says she will do whatever needs to be done for Canada. “Obviously I want to get on the field but whatever Canada needs from me I’m willing to be that teammate, that starter, that finisher,” Fleming said. She is sure of one thing though, she’s not going to let this once in a lifetime opportunity pass her by “I’m not going to just let it slip by and say ‘I wish I had done this and done that. It’s a unique situation that I’m not going to come by again so I’m going to take advantage of what was put in front of me,” she said. In a short lifetime that’s already been long on achievements and highlights, Fleming has one more to revere perhaps the best one yet. “It was being handed the Canada jersey with my number and excepting the responsibility that comes with it,” she said. “It was . . . it was a big moment.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranul Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I would like to find a list of where the players are from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 I would like to find a list of where the players are from The Montreal Gazette wrote where they are from in a piece they recently did: http://montrealgazette.com/sports/soccer/3-quebecers-on-the-canadian-womens-world-cup-soccer-team Otherwise you would need to go to each player's individual profile on the CSA website I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 One player I like that was not included that I can see having a future is Rebecca Quinn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 One player I like that was not included that I can see having a future is Rebecca Quinn. Yes. Add Nichelle Prince and Emma Fletcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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