All Blog Posts Tagged 'Pia' (15)

Pia Sundhage names her squad to face Brazil  in June 2013,this will be the last match the team will play before Pia will name her Squad for the UEFA Women's Euro's 2013.…

Abby Wambach wins the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2012! 

Abby Wambach was presented her award by team mate Hope Solo and President Sepp Blatter. 

Abby Wambach is a striker for the USWNT, and is currently just six goals behind the US record of 158 international goals, currently held by Mia Hamm. Wambach has reached the final of the FIFA Women's World…

FIFA have revealed the final nominees for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award 2012 and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football 2012 in a press conference today attended by FIFA President Joseph Blatter.

The three nominees for FIFA Women's Player of the Year are Abby Wambach (USA), Alex Morgan (USA) and Marta (Brazil)

They were selected from the …

The appointment becomes public after the U.S. women's team played against Costa Rica later this evening, state-initiated American sources Sportbladet.

‘It's time to move on said Sundhage’

The confirmation came via American Football, U.S. Soccer website:

- In our discussions after the Olympics, it became quickly clear that Pia was very interested in returning home to Sweden, says Sunil Gulati, president of the American Football…

Head coach of the US Women's National Team Pia Sundhage has named 28 players to attend a training camp in Princeton, New Jersey from 10th-25th May 2012.

The US Women's National Team have recently returned from a
 …

The US Women's National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named 27 players for a training camp in Florida from April 18th-30th to prepare for London 2012 Olympics.

Pia Sundhage will use this training camp to evaluate the 27 players and eventually select an 18 player roster that will compete in the London 2012 Olympics.

During the two week…

USA Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named a 23-player roster that will travel to Japan in early April to compete in the Women’s Kirin Challenge Cup against 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup champion Japan and Brazil.

The USA will open against the hosts at Yurtec Stadium in Sendai on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. local (6:30 a.m. ET), before travelling south to face the Brazilians on April 3 at Fukuda Denshi Arena in Chiba at 8 p.m. local time (7…

Pia Mariane Sundhage was born in Ulricehamn, Sweden on the 13^th of February 1960.

Playing Career:

Pia started playing football as a youth for IFK Ulricehamn, she played most of her career as a forward her first senior club was Falköpings KIK in…

After a week of training, Sundhage will name 18 players to suit up for the game that will pit two participants from the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and should New Zealand earn Oceania’s lone berth to London, two of the 12 teams that will be at the this summer’s Olympics, as well. The match will kick off at 3 p.m. CT. More than 14,000 tickets have already been sold for the venue that seats 20,500 fans.

“It is always good to play a World Cup team,”…

At the press conference for the Women's Coach and Player of the Year. The FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year candidates Marta, Homare Sawa and Abby Wambach were joined by Bruno Bini, Norio Sasaki and Pia Sundhage, the three nominees for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award. Each person took turns to address the media.

Here is a short selection of what was…

U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has called up 29 players for nine days of training at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., before the team leaves for the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament being held in Vancouver, Canada. from Jan.…

Bruno Bini (France), Norio Sasaki (Japan) and Pia Sundhage (USWNT Coach) have all been nominated for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football award 2011.

The nominees were selected from a short-list of 10…

USA Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has called up 30 players for a two-week training camp in Arizona that will end with the USA’s final international match of the year playing against Sweden on Nov. 19 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale (7 p.m. MST kickoff).

U.S. Women’s National Team Roster:

GOALKEEPERS:

Nicole Barnhart (Philadelphia Independence)

Ashlyn Harris (Western New York…

USA’s first match in England will be on April 2, 2011 at Brisbane Road in East London. The Match will be televised live on ESPN2.Pia Sundhage will take 23 players to England which includes 22 of the players who went to the Algarve Cup in Portugal. …

I must be slowly becoming an adult, because I can finally tell that Saturday's were truly meant as a day to catch up on everything you've missed in the past week.

Most importantly: the Four Nations Tournament currently being played out in China.

As stated earlier this week, the United States Women's National Team dropped their first match to the highly ranked global entity Sweden, 2-1. While it's quick, and rather easy I learned, to panic about this loss,…