09-04-2018, 10:41 AM
I didn't realize the WCQ was going to be quite so long for the women.
The CONCACAF women's championship serves as qualifying for next year's World Cup. I was watching for the results of the draw this morning (and boy, is USSoccer's website bad), but then noticed the schedule. It's for TWO full weeks between October 4-17 (and I'm assuming a few days before October 4.)
However, on the bright side, that does seem to work with the Stanford schedule, as far as missing Tierna goes. Stanford ends its death march of ranked opponents on September 30 at home against $C. Hopefully, Davidson can play that game and then hop a plane to (of course) North Carolina for the Group A matches. But the toughest group match is going to be the first one, against Mexico (10/4), followed by Panama (10/7) and Trinidad and Tobago (10/10). So I'm wondering if the WNT will try to get her there earlier.
The games directly impacted would be at Oregon (10/4) and Oregon State (10/7), at ASU (10/13), and home vs. Utah (10/18). On the front end, we host the biggest weekend of the Pac-12 season with the Bruins on 9/27 before the Toejams, and on the back-end, we host Colorado on 10/21. That run of games after $C is about the softest part of the conference schedule - I would rate those four games as the easiest, given that we play UW, WSU, and C.al all on the road after Colorado.
And that compacted schedule is just deadly, especially for an older team like the U.S. 2 off days between full international matches is EXTREMELY short; feels like another indicator of FIFA/CONCACAF's disdain for the women's game.
VG
The CONCACAF women's championship serves as qualifying for next year's World Cup. I was watching for the results of the draw this morning (and boy, is USSoccer's website bad), but then noticed the schedule. It's for TWO full weeks between October 4-17 (and I'm assuming a few days before October 4.)
However, on the bright side, that does seem to work with the Stanford schedule, as far as missing Tierna goes. Stanford ends its death march of ranked opponents on September 30 at home against $C. Hopefully, Davidson can play that game and then hop a plane to (of course) North Carolina for the Group A matches. But the toughest group match is going to be the first one, against Mexico (10/4), followed by Panama (10/7) and Trinidad and Tobago (10/10). So I'm wondering if the WNT will try to get her there earlier.
The games directly impacted would be at Oregon (10/4) and Oregon State (10/7), at ASU (10/13), and home vs. Utah (10/18). On the front end, we host the biggest weekend of the Pac-12 season with the Bruins on 9/27 before the Toejams, and on the back-end, we host Colorado on 10/21. That run of games after $C is about the softest part of the conference schedule - I would rate those four games as the easiest, given that we play UW, WSU, and C.al all on the road after Colorado.
And that compacted schedule is just deadly, especially for an older team like the U.S. 2 off days between full international matches is EXTREMELY short; feels like another indicator of FIFA/CONCACAF's disdain for the women's game.
VG