Tuesday's Column & More
LA is a college football town. Here's proof.
A-Rod, pictured on the penultimate day of camp Monday, is the top picture here. Cheney is seen in the two lower photos.
Two WNT coaching notes from U.S. Soccer:
Phil Wheddon, the Women’s National Team goalkeeper coach since the end of 2006, and also from 2002-2004, has been retained by Sundhage and will handle all the goalkeeper training duties. Sundhage has also hired fellow Swede Helena Andersson as the team’s strength and fitness coach. Rounding out her staff is former U.S. U-17 Women’s National Team head coach Erica Walsh, who will be with the WNT on a part-time basis. Walsh, who is the head women’s soccer coach at Penn State University, was also an assistant for the USA at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Cup in Thailand.
The full Four Nations Tournament roster:
goalkeepers - Briana Scurry (Dayton, Minn.), Hope Solo (Richland, Wash.); defenders Stephanie Cox (Elk Grove, Calif.), Tobin Heath (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Ali Krieger (Dumfries, Va.), Christie Rampone (Point Pleasant, N.J.), Becky Sauerbrunn (St. Louis, Mo.), Cat Whitehill (Birmingham, Ala.); midfielders Shannon Boxx (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Lori Chalupny (St. Louis, Mo.), Tina DiMartino (Massapequa Park, N.Y.), Angela Hucles (Virginia Beach, Va.), Carli Lloyd (Delran, N.J.), Leslie Osborne (Brookfield, Wis.), Angie Woznuk (El Cajon, Calif.); forwards Lauren Cheney (Indianapolis, Ind.), Heather O’Reilly (East Brunswick, N.J.), Amy Rodriguez (Lake Forest, Calif.), Lindsay Tarpley (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Abby Wambach (Rochester, N.Y.).
Lastly, prep action from the Daily Breeze is here, a brief Bay League preview after preseason games is here.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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