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Article
Index 2001
September 9, 2001
Results
of current UEFA Group play
September 8, 2001
Results
of UEFA matches played Saturday September 8, 2001
September 5, 2001
Switzerland
beats Finland in UEFA game
August 24, 2001
England
loses at home to Denmark
August 14, 2001
Group
1-4 matchups for UEFA qualifying 2001-2002 for 4TH WWC FINALS
August 7, 2001
Scotland
to play Ireland this weekend
August 3, 2001
Youth
given their opportunity by England Coach Powell
July 31, 2001
Final
Nordic Cup 2001 results and group standings
July 29, 2001
Final
Nordic Cup 2001 results and group standings
Nordic
Cup 2001 results
July 28, 2001
Germany
Under-19 National Team defeats Norway to win the UEFA Under-19 Championship
again
July 27, 2001
Results
and Group standings in Nordic Cup 2001
Nordic
Cup 2001 results today
Group A
July 26, 2001
Results
of Under 19-European Championships semi-finals played today
July 25, 2001
Current
Nordic Cup 2001 results and standings
Nordic
Cup 2001 results
June 25, 2001
Italy
Roster for UEFA Championships
June 5, 2001
Torres
wins Coppa Italia and completes the double
May 31, 2001
Morace
calls up her troops
May 28, 2001
Italy's
Serie A championship is over
May 25, 2001
Scotland
National Team named for England game Sunday 27th
May 18, 2001
Italy
and the UEFA Championship
May 17, 2001
Scotland
Under-18 National Team off to Belgium for two challenge matches.
Germany
struggles in friendly with Russia
May 14, 2001
Norway
knocks off Sweden in Stavanger
May 14, 2001
Italian
League news
May 11, 2001
Scotland
loses to Holland
May 8, 2001
Italy
National Team leaves for Germany
A
new base for Scottish women's football
May 4, 2001
Rosters
for Scotland v Netherlands (Holland) Thursday, 10th May, 2001
May 2, 2001
Italy
2 Belgium 0 as visitor's goalkeeper is red carded in Italy
April 29, 2001
Italy
National Team news and Panico's WUSA woes
April 24, 2001
Sky
Television to show England versus Scotland game live in May
March 14, 2001
Scotland
heads for France
March 8, 2001
UEFA
Championship Finals 2001 draw
February 25, 2001
Algarve
Cup 2001 game times (local)
UEFA
Championship 2001 Finals schedule
February 9, 2001
France to play Norway on February 17th at 16.00
hrs. near Paris
February 7, 2001
UEFA tidbits
January 30, 2001
Pia Sundhage - A unique Career
in Sweden and the World
January 28, 2001
Response to WSW's Great Britain
student advertisement?
January 21, 2001
German FA to host this summer's
European Championship
Article
Index 2000
December 23, 2000
Draw for 2001/2002 UEFA Women's
Under-19 Championship takes place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
December 22, 2000
UEFA Women's Club competition
set for 2001/02 season
December 20, 2000
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup:
European Qualifying Round draw
November 23, 2000
Other England news plus status of
2001 UEFA Finals
November 7, 2000
Mrs. Natalina Ceraso Levati re-confirmed
as President of the Italian Female Soccer Division
October 27, 2000
Opel's Ireland Player of the
Year nominees
September 14, 2000
Commentary on Morace's rough road
ahead
September 13, 2000
Carolina Morace officially starts
her journey on the long road to stardom for Italy's National program
UEFA
Under-18 competition 2000-20001 final groups and known play-off dates
Colin Aldis
UEFA U-18 2000-2001
first rounds will be completed by Sept 14th, 2000. One change from last
season, the Finals tournament will be 8 teams instead of 4, bringing it
into line with the seniors final tournament, both to be held in summer
2001.
It is possible again,
that U-18 finals by UEFA will clash with Nordic Cup U-21 tournament 2001,
which will
be held in Norway next year. This happens due to the summer only league
seasons in Northern Europe, which are
relatively short, ie. in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
England
to play Finland on Thursday 28, September 2000
England will play
Finland on Thursday 28, September 2000 in a friendly, to be held somewhere
in London. Both teams will use the match as preparation for the UEFA play-offs
due to be played in October and November. England have to play for Ukraine
for the first time, while Finland face a difficult 2 leg tie with Sweden.
Celt
Cup to be held in Northern Ireland
T he Celt Cup will
be held from September 22-23, 2000 in Northern Ireland. the tournament
is jointly hosted by the Republic of Ireland and Scotland. Possible contestants
may includeFaroe Islandsbut Wales has not been included.
August
29 , 2000
WSW congratulates Scottish Player of the Year Rhonda Jones
Rhonda Jones (age
21) from Newarthill, Motherwell, Scotland fought off tough competition
from Julie Fleeting, Linda Brown, and Pauline Hamill to be chosen as Scotlands
Premiership Player of the Year. A dedicated player who gives 110% in every
game, Rhonda achieved a lot this year. Her club team Ary United won the
League Cup, she was awarded players' Player of the Year, Managers' Player
of the Year and Premiership Player of the Year. Rhonda has been offered
scholarships all over the USA.
July 10, 2000
Morace
rumors follow Italy's loss to the USA
Mario Rimati
After Italy's less-than brilliant performance against
the States' B national team in New York on July 7th, rumours have begun
circulating about the possible candidature of Carolina Morace as Italy's
new head coach. The former legend of Italian female soccer has denied
the rumours but the apparent crisis surrounding the national team has
had people talking about Morace as the next successor to the present head
coach, Ettore Recagni.
The former national team captain has admitted that she
has not yet been contacted officially by the Italian F.A. regarding the
appointment. The rumour appears to have originated in the world of female
soccer, most likely from some of the national team players who have in
the last 4 years seen 4 different head coaches. Many are rather disillusioned,
to say the least, with the continual changes. The decision surrounding
a probable successor to Recagni falls squarely on the shoulders of the
higher echelons of the F.A.
The present situation vis-a-vis the national team bench
can't really get any worse than it already is. Perhaps Morace's entrance
on the national stage will help salvage whatever is left of the national
team just in time for the European qualifying round. Italy should play
Portugal in September. The whole sector should also benefit with her presence
as Morace has become quite the public figure in the world of Italian soccer,
both male and female (she was a play-by-play commentator at the recent
European championships, not to mention during the entire period of France'98).
The one big advantage that she would bring to female
soccer, together with her expertise of the game, would be the much needed
press coverage that this sport is desperately hungry for at the moment
in Italy.
May 29, 2000
UEFA approves
request for staging of first UEFA Women's Club Championship
UEFA Club Championship
In a major step
for women's soccer in Europe and after years of attempts, the Executive
Committee of UEFA approved the formation of a UEFA Women's Club Competition
at it's recent meeting in Paris. Like the long time men's competition
it would result in a club being crowned as Champion of Europe.
It will be set
up as mini-tournaments until the quarter-finals. Associations must be
conducting championships on a regular basis for their teams to participate.
UEFA also added
the proviso that it's approval is contingent to "certain financial promises
to UEFA" being made by the participating teams.
National Teams
Because of concern
that the new WUSA league will entice many European players, an international
fixture list will be established to safeguard the dates of matches for
national teams in order to cope with the increasing number of games.
At the start of
the 2003/05 competition an association will be appointed to organize
the Final Tournament to ensure that they have time to prepare the event
including finding local sponsors and exploiting the commercial rights.
In future, starting
with the 2003/05 competition, an association will be entrusted with
the organization of the Final Tournament to ensure that this host association
has sufficient time to prepare the event, to find local sponsors and
to exploit the commercial rights. In the past, the host association
was not appointed until the participating teams in the Final Round were
known. However, even though seeded in the Final Tournament, that team
should take part in the qualifying rounds.
Relating to
introduction of FIFA Women's Under-19 World Championship
Following the introduction
of the Women's Under-19 World Championship, the UEFA Committee for Women's
Football asked for permission to double the number of teams to eight
in the Final Round of the European Women's Under-18 Championship. The
response from the Executive Committee was positive, but a final decision
will not be taken until the meeting in Rotterdam next month.
April 17, 2000
A
way to halt the continued downslide of Italy's National Team program?
By Mario Rimati
It's probably about
time that the Italian F.A. and its female division hand over the bench
of the national team to Carolina Morace. The national team has suffered
in the last 4 years with too many abrupt changes that have impeded it
from working in a tranquil environment. In order to bring home some
positive results (4 different head coaches in 4 years). Italy cannot
possibly expect to beat Germany, or anyone else for that matter, without
7 important players (how would the U.S. fair against China or Norway
in a competitive match without the likes of Hamm, Akers, Overbeck, Foudy,
Fawcett, Lilly or Scurry?). Morace is perhaps the only person in Italy
with the passion and the inside know-how of the game. She's also the
only woman who presently has a 2nd level professional coaching license
(the coaches of the men's 1st division have 1st level licenses). With
Morace on the bench many of the "lost sheep" like Panico, Tesse and
others would come back to the manger. A winning coaching team could
be the following:
Head Coach:
Carolina Morace
Assistant Coach:
Betty Bavagnoli (77 caps with the national team and her assistant during
their brief spell coaching the men's pro club Viterbese)
Team Managers:
Betty Vignotto (107 goals in 109 games with the national team and Morace's
"mentor" on the national team years ago) and Teresa Cartolari (involved
with female soccer since 1969. Former team manager under Guenza and
former team manager of Lazio).
The four women
are probably the foremost experts on the game, so much so that someone
like Cartolari for example used to actually suggest players to some
of the former head coaches. And they listened too.
What's the F.A.
therefore waiting for? The loss of more key players? More humiliation
in the eyes of international female soccer? One thing is almost certain:
if Morace were to take over the national team it might be difficult
to see the likes of Panico or Tesse take off for the pro league in the
States next year. One of the reasons for the "mutiny" of many players
is the desire to have their former national teammate as head coach.
After all, as Panico said awhile ago about Morace's coaching abilities
(once Morace quit playing she coached her briefly at Lazio) "She's the
best coach I've ever had". And this is coming from Italy's most prolific
player at the moment. It's doubtful after all the years of waiting and
being bounced around from one coach to another that many players will
want to miss out on being coached by Italy's most famous player (captain
of the national team for 10 years. Vice European Cup champion in 1993
and 1997. Winner of 4 Italian Cup titles, 12 national championship titles
and leading goalscorer for a record 13 times). Many are anxiously waiting
for their "messiah" to take over the reigns of the national team.
February 25, 2000
Icelandic
National Team problems?
WSW has learned
that it has been reported in the Icelandic press that 13 of the 16 National
Team members who played against Germany in Oktober have "risen
up against their coach " and say that they will not play if he
continues as coach.
November 23,1999
The 3rd round of the UEFA Under-18 Championships
will be played before the 20th of May 2000 as follows:
Thorsten Frennstedt
| A 1: |
A 2: |
A 3: |
A 4: |
- Norway
- Rep. of Ireland
- England
- Spain
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- France
- Switzerland
- Yugoslavia
- Russia
|
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Italy
- Czech Repubic
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- Denmark
- Germany
- Finland
- Ukraine
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September 24,1999
Schedule for 9TH UEFA
Championship 1999-2000, GROUP 1-4
It
is rumoured that England is to follow Brazil's lead from two years ago
and allow women referees to run a men's game, albeit a 5th Division
match as opposed to Brazil's 1st Division opening game of their season
officiated by women
The Italian press
came out today with a very tiny article on a first in England: on September
13th in England's 5th division men's game between Kidderminister and
Nuneaton, the refereeing will be an all-female trio lead by Wendy Tom
(a lineswoman in several Premier League matches), Janie Frampton and
Amy Rayner. It appears to be a first-time event in England men's soccer
according to Italian sources.
UEFA
National Teams competition schedule 1999
August 29
Wales v Turkey
August 31 Wales v Turkey
September 2 Germany v Russia W 19.00hrs local time at Plauen,
East Germany
September 15 Holland v Denmark at Harkemase, Northern Holland
September 15 England v France at Yeovil, Northern England
July
14, 1999
International schedule for Europe in August
and September
By Thorsten Frennstedt
August 1-7, U-18
European Championships final round in south Sweden.
| 3 |
at Aahus: |
17.00 Germany - Norway |
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19.00 Sweden - Italy |
| 5 |
at Bromoella: |
17.00 Germany - Sweden |
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19.00 Norway - Ita |
| 7 |
at Aahus |
17.00 Italy - Germany |
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at Kristianstad |
17.00 Norway - Sweden |
August 1-9 Nordic Cup U-21
in Reykjavik, Iceland
- 2 Australia-Sweden
- 4 Norway-Sweden
- 6 Sweden-Iceland
Other international games scheduled
August
- 11 Belarus-Estonia (European
Championships qualification)
- 21 Finland 0 -Russia 2 (0-1)
( European Championships qualification)
- 22 Denmark 0 - England 1
(0-0)
- 22 Ukraine 2-Iceland 2 (1-0)
(European Championships qualification)
- 25 Switzerland -Holland
September
- 4 Estonia-Slovakia ( European
Championships qualification)
- 10 Switzerland U-18 - Austria
U-18
- 11 Switzerland U 18 - Austria
U 18
- 11 Norway-Switzerland (
European Championships qualification)
- 15 Denmark - Holland
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