Dallas International Girls Cup

looks like solar red over Feet 2-1. anyone know if it was PKs or not?

Solar Red was up 2-0 in first 15 minutes of the game. Feet scored about halfway through the second half.

Congrats to Solar Red!!

Great Event at the Dallas International Girls Cup! Here are some "Shout Outs":

1) Well done SRSA! Congrats!!
2) Glad to see an all Texas finals. Was not impressed w/U13 Chicago teams at all.
3) LP Pulp, well done! Thanks for representing 00's very well in U14 division. For years the 00 division has taken a lot of criticism as not being as strong of an age group. The group may not be the strongest, but certainly not as bad as perceptions.

I heard on Sunday about the winners being invited to Dana/Gothia Cup. I found the invites curious as I believe anyone can attend these tournaments. Did I miss some other information about these invites

If they were willing to sponsor the winners for one of these trips (a la Manchester United Cup), then that would be a different story entirely. Would certainly make the tournament a much bigger draw as well.

Gunners wrote:I heard on Sunday about the winners being invited to Dana/Gothia Cup. I found the invites curious as I believe anyone can attend these tournaments. Did I miss some other information about these invites

If they were willing to sponsor the winners for one of these trips (a la Manchester United Cup), then that would be a different story entirely. Would certainly make the tournament a much bigger draw as well.

The winning teams received a $10,000 "travel voucher" as a contribution should they decide to enter one or both of the tournaments.

Random 00 DIGC observations:
-There's a WHOLE LOTTA LP LOVE going out this week...
-Chicago folk were a irritable bunch.
-Canadian, Australian, Swedish Folk were great (at least the ones I met).
-Ross Stewart Complex:
--The fields were absolutely great; tournament well run-- games on schedule, etc. Hat off to Tx staff.
--Was anyone else thinking, "how in the heck am I going to get out of this place if a tornado, thunderstorm,etc drops down?"
--Field #5 had the most comfortable bleachers I ever sat in...stretch your legs out; accidently tripped my dd on her way by once...
-Sting had one win in tournament... total.
-Did anyone look at the brackets and say, "I wonder who is hosting the tournament...?"

Packrabbit wrote:

Gunners wrote:I heard on Sunday about the winners being invited to Dana/Gothia Cup. I found the invites curious as I believe anyone can attend these tournaments. Did I miss some other information about these invites

If they were willing to sponsor the winners for one of these trips (a la Manchester United Cup), then that would be a different story entirely. Would certainly make the tournament a much bigger draw as well.

The winning teams received a $10,000 "travel voucher" as a contribution should they decide to enter one or both of the tournaments.

Incredible more wasn't made of this by the tournament.

I wonder if SoR or DTR '01 are seriously considering going to either.

Gunners wrote:

Packrabbit wrote:

Gunners wrote:I heard on Sunday about the winners being invited to Dana/Gothia Cup. I found the invites curious as I believe anyone can attend these tournaments. Did I miss some other information about these invites

If they were willing to sponsor the winners for one of these trips (a la Manchester United Cup), then that would be a different story entirely. Would certainly make the tournament a much bigger draw as well.

The winning teams received a $10,000 "travel voucher" as a contribution should they decide to enter one or both of the tournaments.

Incredible more wasn't made of this by the tournament.

I wonder if SoR or DTR '01 are seriously considering going to either.

It was mentioned by a TD at the award ceremony after the finals that the voucher being offered was in the amount of 10,000 dollars, and he also mentioned the cost for a team to go was about 60,000 dollars. Estimate 3,000 dollars per player with a roster of 16

Packrabbit wrote:Random 00 DIGC observations:
-There's a WHOLE LOTTA LP LOVE going out this week...
-Chicago folk were a irritable bunch.
-Canadian, Australian, Swedish Folk were great (at least the ones I met).
-Ross Stewart Complex:
--The fields were absolutely great; tournament well run-- games on schedule, etc. Hat off to TX staff.
--Was anyone else thinking, "how in the heck am I going to get out of this place if a tornado, thunderstorm,etc drops down?"
--Field #5 had the most comfortable bleachers I ever sat in...stretch your legs out; accidentally tripped my dd on her way by once...
-Sting had one win in tournament... total.
-Did anyone look at the brackets and say, "I wonder who is hosting the tournament...?"

Continued Random 00 DIGC observations :

- U13 Division - 3 out of the 4 semi-finalist and eventual tournament winner came from Bracket C
- Cox fields were also in excellent shape
- OSU '99G from Canada was the best foreign team by far
- Feet - Shaw had a strong tournament using 5 guest players playing big roles. Looks like this could be D'Feeters ECNL team for next year
- Both Stings, Texans, and SR played without guest players
- FCD only ECNL club not to participate in U13 Division
- Only 1 win out of 7 games from the two Chicago Teams
- Tournament overall our girls from North Texas had a great showing

Championship Table:




- NT had 8 of the 12 finalist
- NT had 4 of the 6 eventual champions
- Solar teams won 2 and D'Feeters / Texans 1 each

RocketFish wrote:
-Chicago folk were an irritable bunch.

- Only 1 win out of 7 games from the two Chicago Teams

LOL, travelling on Easter week for those results? I might be a bit irritable myself.

RocketFish wrote:

Packrabbit wrote:Random 00 DIGC observations:
-There's a WHOLE LOTTA LP LOVE going out this week...
-Chicago folk were a irritable bunch.
-Canadian, Australian, Swedish Folk were great (at least the ones I met).
-Ross Stewart Complex:
--The fields were absolutely great; tournament well run-- games on schedule, etc. Hat off to TX staff.
--Was anyone else thinking, "how in the heck am I going to get out of this place if a tornado, thunderstorm,etc drops down?"
--Field #5 had the most comfortable bleachers I ever sat in...stretch your legs out; accidentally tripped my dd on her way by once...
-Sting had one win in tournament... total.
-Did anyone look at the brackets and say, "I wonder who is hosting the tournament...?"

Continued Random 00 DIGC observations :

- U13 Division - 3 out of the 4 semi-finalist and eventual tournament winner came from Bracket C
- Cox fields were also in excellent shape
- OSU '99G from Canada was the best foreign team by far
- Feet - Shaw had a strong tournament using 5 guest players playing big roles. Looks like this could be D'Feeters ECNL team for next year
- Both Stings, Texans, and SR played without guest players
- FCD only ECNL club not to participate in U13 Division
- Only 1 win out of 7 games from the two Chicago Teams
- Tournament overall our girls from North Texas had a great showing

Championship Table:




- NT had 8 of the 12 finalist
- NT had 4 of the 6 eventual champions
- Solar teams won 2 and D'Feeters / Texans 1 each

I had heard 4 guest players; 2 of which were goalies that rotated out by half.

Heard Shaw had 5 guest , two of which were goalies. Expected some of his own players to sit out so guests could play.

Keeper123 wrote:Heard Shaw had 5 guest , two of which were goalies. Expected some of his own players to sit out so guests could play.

I would think if you invited players to guest with you, it's probably polite to allow them to actually play in the games... which would entail some of the rostered players to sit out at some point... right?

Agree with guest playing. However, if we do the math Shaw has how many on his Feet roster? 15-18? If even at 15 this means at least 2 of his players would not get to play in a game at all since you can only have 18 play. Would you any parent like to see their dd sit the bench for an entire game so that a guest can play in their place? We all know that this is what ECNL will be about but we arent there yet. Why roster more than 18? Texans, Solar, and Sting played with their core teams. No guest. I would think this would cause anxiety with the current players and parents.

Agree with guest playing. However, if we do the math Shaw has how many on his Feet roster? 15-18? If even at 15 this means at least 2 of his players would not get to play in a game at all since you can only have 18 play. Would you any parent like to see their dd sit the bench for an entire game so that a guest can play in their place? We all know that this is what ECNL will be about but we arent there yet. Why roster more than 18? Texans, Solar, and Sting played with their core teams. No guest. I would think this would cause anxiety with the current players and parents.

If I read this correctly and if two of the guest players where keepers and they split halfs, did the current rostered keeper sit out the entire a game? were they even rostered for the tourney? Or, where they not available for the tourney? either way it would be silly to roster 3 keepers for the tourney and take up a spot.

I hope that the coach assured their current keeper of their status good or bad else this would concern me more than the field players.

Don't know. Also dont know hiow many players Shaw has on his current team. 5 guest are alot of guest, especially in the middle of league play. Do know that both guests keepers played in all games so who then who sat out? Shaw has a good team and players, why take the risk?

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Obviously, KeeperX2, you have information (a roster or a team familiarity) that I'm not privy too. From what I saw, the last match had 18 players (11 on the pitch, 7 subs) and was told that 4 guest players were participating. It appeared that all of the players were rotated and received significant playing time. The vibe I got was that evaluating their player(s) and combinations was their primary focus of the tournament. HOWEVER, I DID NOTICE that a blond AND a dark headed girl with pony tails received significantly more playing time than the others!

Wasn't this tournament on EASTER weekend?? I know that when we considered tourneys at that time, many of our team members said no to that...could that explain the need to add several guests??

I don't really know or care, but it is starting to sound like academy and the "guess players" inherent in that system. BTW-from my memory, if you question another team's motives for including multiple guests, you tend to get crucified...just sayin'