Week 3 Where Ya At 📈
How do you feel about your team's position?#NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/7S2Jf1tAYx— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 31, 2021
Posted on 04/10/2021 8:57:14 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Off to a strong start in 2021 with a 5-0-0 record and a championship at the 2021 SheBelieves Cup in Orlando, the U.S. Women’s National Team returns to the pitch on April 10 against Sweden for the first match of its highly-anticipated two-game European tour. The match against Sweden will be played at Friends Arena in Stockholm (1 p.m. ET/7 p.m. local on FOX) and pits the USA – the top-ranked team in the world – against fifth-ranked Sweden in its first game on foreign soil this year.
Following the match against Sweden, the USA will travel to Le Havre to take on third-ranked France. That match will be played at Stade Océane in Le Havre at 3 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. local on ESPN2 on April 13.
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You know who it is 💥@alexmorgan13 is baaaaack ⚽️#ORLvWAS | https://t.co/0LtSAUK1Jw | #NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/6NRuVCSP1M— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 16, 2021
Alex Morgan drunk twerking. That’s it. That’s the tweet. #USA pic.twitter.com/Av8edR3ROw— H (@edxlman) July 7, 2019
The equalizer to keep us going. 😤@Rasmussen | #ORLvWAS pic.twitter.com/VmPP2yzYTR— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 17, 2021
All this week's goals, all in one place 😎#NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/ozFSfgjUV5— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 18, 2021
Tonight's Starting XI 👊 #LOUvsWAS pic.twitter.com/SiNidRbrsp— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) May 21, 2021
We would take an @alexmorgan13 airplane celly any day!✈️ VAMOS!
1-0 | #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/YUdWeDZbLq— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 26, 2021
22' | @alexmorgan13 GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! That's her THIRD goal in THREE games! 🤯
1-0 | @heineken_us | #ORLvPOR pic.twitter.com/mu4ZlFK0cP— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 26, 2021
Warm ups mean we’re getting closer to kick 😁😁#KCvCHI | #WePlayForKC pic.twitter.com/Vf1GGmldco— KC NWSL (@KCWoSo) May 26, 2021
The main goal is to score a goal. 👟⚽️🥅
We're lit up teal tonight for @KCWoSo's inaugural season home opener! Good luck tonight to Kansas City's newest professional sports team as they take on the @chicagoredstars! pic.twitter.com/C9WOml3jNO— Kauffman Center (@kauffmancenter) May 27, 2021
WATT a goal 🤯#KCvCHI | https://t.co/bONPZnnmCJ | #NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/6KFs8NoFwU— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 27, 2021
The thorn in Gotham's side 🌹#NJNYvPOR | #NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/gTT1sHpDTO— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 30, 2021
The starting XI for tonight's match against @KCWoSo. 🚀
@orlandohealth | #ORLvKC pic.twitter.com/zynAVyverl— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) May 30, 2021
It’s game day folks. #ORLvKC | #WePlayForKC pic.twitter.com/hwUaLDgx71— KC NWSL (@KCWoSo) May 30, 2021
Ashley Lawrence, Jordyn Huitema and PSG maintain their one point lead in the French league! https://t.co/hmOUerLQJJ— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) May 30, 2021
Thank you KC_Lion,
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Much appreciated !
Thank You, my good FRiend!
Week 3 Where Ya At 📈
How do you feel about your team's position?#NWSL21 pic.twitter.com/7S2Jf1tAYx— National Women's Soccer League (@NWSL) May 31, 2021
Washington Spirit has opened with four straight on the road and is 2-1-1, good for second place. Can’t complain about that. They’ve been in a rebuilding cycle since losing in the championship game a few years ago. That was a very competitive veteran team that had aged together and all hit the wall together. Torie Huester is the only one left from that era and she amazingly keeps chugging along. For several years now the team has traded veterans for draft picks and aggressively traded up in the draft. They’re a very young, built through the draft team that surprised in 2019 and may be ready to break out as a solid contender for the next few years. There’s also a new majority owner who seems to have deeper pockets and is ready to invest to win.
They’re splitting home games this season between Segra Field in Leesburg and Audi Field on the waterfront two blocks from Nats Park. They share that field with DC United. They drew 17,000 and almost 20,000 fans in their two test games at Audi in 2019. If they can sustain that kind of attendance over seven games this year, they hope to move entirely to Audi next year. That is a fantastic facility in a great location in the DC riverfront neighborhood, which is a newly reclaimed area and now super hot for young adults, which is a core soccer marketing target.
They had been playing at the Soccerplex in Germantown, which was a lovely small stadium and the most kid friendly professional venue imaginable. The stands were full of girls’ youth teams. It only seated 5000 plus a few hundred more if they sold out the seating on the grass area on the hillside on the south end. They were selling that out pretty regularly in 2019 and there was no growth potential, plus you had to drive halfway to Kansas to get there. The question for some years has been how the team could do in a centrally located stadium that wasn’t wildly inconvenient to three quarters of the fan base. We’re about to find out. Audi Field is a great location. It’s now a question of how fast fans will return post-COVID.
Thank You.
KC's Field of Legends can hold 10,3000+ for soccer matches.
Much appreciated status report !
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