Christie Rampone has been named captain of the U.S. Women's National Team. Christie has always been a great role model for her teammates, quietly leading by example on and off the field. In recent years, she has worked on finding her voice and becoming a vocal leader as well. Congratulations Christie, may you reign in peace!
The National Soccer Hall of Fame ballots are out and a handful of WNT veterans are up for election into the Hall. Joy Fawcett makes her second appearance on the ballot, having narrowly missed her opportunity to go into the hall last year with Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy. She should be a no-brainer this year. Shannon MacMillan makes her first appearance on the ballot and deserves serious consideration by the voters based on her heroics in the 1996 Olympic gold medal campaign alone. Danielle Fotopolous, also a first timer joins Cindy Parlow and Tisha Venturini-Hoch in rounding out the female candidates. If you have strong opinions about who should get into the Hall this year, shoot an email to any of your favorite soccer writers as they are likely voters.
The NSCAA Convention kicks off in Baltimore on Thursday of this week. It is a huge gathering of our soccer community. The new women's professional soccer league will be making some big announcements from there, including their name so we will finally know what to call them! I will be blogging amidst the mayhem and will do my best to post updates as they are made available.
The Four Nations Tournament begins tomorrow with the U.S. taking on Canada. To date, the only broadcasts I am aware of are on CCTV-5 and they are broadcasting all of China's matches. We should be able to catch U.S. v. China on the January 20th at 2:30 am (ET) in the morning. For some suggested ways to stream the broadcast, check out this Big Soccer thread. Give yourself plenty of time to get it working as it can sometimes be a bit laborious (especially if you don't read Chinese). And, beware of Chinese porn. ;-)
* Photo - New U.S. Captain, Christie Rampone takes time to reach out to some young fans.
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