Megan Rapinoe #2 pick in WPS draft Sari Selected 66th

Congrats to Megan, Go Chicago!

And Lisa joining Steph in LA

Quote from Megan's new coach Emma Hayes.


“I been on the road scouting players a lot this season, and Megan is undoubtedly the most exciting player I’ve seen coming out of the college ranks,” said Chicago Red Stars Head Coach Emma Hayes. “She is going to be a star.”


Have to say I couldn't agree more

Ha ha ha... oh man, I completely missed this earlier thread. My bad!

So how many Pilots is that?

Sinclair (FC Gold Pride, curious name....)
Cox (LA Sol, I'm assuming this is for the hispanic population...)
Rapinoe (Chicago Red Stars, for the red stars on the Chicago flag)
Sari (LA Sol)
Woznuk (St. Louis Athletica, couldnt find the info on this one either)
Alexander (Sky Blue FC (NY/NJ) named for an existing club from the area)

Not a bad contingent... Am I missing any?? And futhermore it makes it hard to root for any one team with Pilots spread out, and NO teams in the PNW, I guess we can eliminate the Breakers and Freedom from contention...

Such is life when you support a school like Portland. I mean, if you were a fan of, like, Miami, or Texas, or someplace like that, how would you pick an NFL team to root for?

Megan plus Carli Lloyd means a hard-shooting midfield in the Windy City. Cheers to Megan (No. 1 in my book whatever the draft results).

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:Such is life when you support a school like Portland. I mean, if you were a fan of, like, Miami, or Texas, or someplace like that, how would you pick an NFL team to root for?

Texas? or anything from the Big 12? Ew... Dear lord I hate the NFL...

But back to the WPS... I'm assuming Puma is the outfitter, and after seeing the jerseys handed out it pretty much looks like they just slapped a team badge on an existing stock jersey of the matching color... I hope in the future they can put a little effort forth (but then again most companies develop jerseys/gear 2 years ahead of time, they only had a few months to put anything together)...

It'll be interesting to take a look at the rosters once all is said and done to see where the strength lies, I selfishly was hoping Megan would drop 1 spot and lineup alongside Sinc again.

DaTruRochin wrote:
I'm assuming Puma is the outfitter, and after seeing the jerseys handed out it pretty much looks like they just slapped a team badge on an existing stock jersey of the matching color... I hope in the future they can put a little effort forth (but then again most companies develop jerseys/gear 2 years ahead of time, they only had a few months to put anything together)...

Sadly, that seems to be the extent of Puma's design skills. It was easy to see at Euro 2008: Take a blue Italy shirt, make it red, put on a different badge and...presto! A Switzerland shirt. Sometimes Nike takes it too far, but at least they try different things.

yeah Nike and adidas definitely deserve their #1 and #2 rankings as far as ingenuity and design go (I think nike is #1 here, but adidas is #1 globally)... It doesn't help that Rudolf Dassler's political persuasions forever haunt Puma's global marketability, but again that has nothing to do with design.

Go Chicago. Hopefully the goofballs who picked her as only a second team All-American will scratch their heads until they need Rogaine.

I think that the scouts saw this, and decided she was a keeper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ2_RkXU-lM

And that was one of those mini balls. She would have destroyed him with a regular ball.

I like Lisa in LA. You fans of yore might remember she was a big reason Sinc had such great sucess. So look you got Marta as forward. Lisa in the Midfield and Lopez on defense. Nice foundation to build a team around.

Not to mention Shannon Boxx and Aly Wagner... Not too shabby at all...