I think the W-League name certainly had a special identity to it but A-League Women is probably more inclusive. Similarly the Y-League became the A-League Youth (before it disbanded), though the E-League remained with the same name rather than becoming the A-League E-Sports.
She’s like half-Japanese, I doubt that’s why. Also *Timbuktu (it’s a place in Mali).
She was signed for $10,000?
Ayana Aoyagi was at South Melbourne last season before making the move to Melbourne City.
Are NPL clubs allowed to sell players to A League clubs?
They are allowed to do so but any domestic transfers have to be carried out during the transfer windows set by Football Australia.
Well I’m confused now.
Instagram followers. Not a chance she costs $10,000, but she has over 10,000 Insta followers. My point was she’s done a good job of promoting her brand through her social medias (also Insta and TikTok) despite her initially relatively low profile. It helps a lot with brand deals. She went to a Nike workshop for example. In contrast most NPLW players are virtually just local people in the same way a local singer is.
That’s fine for individuals own ‘brands’ but we are talking about raising the awareness of the league itself and, along with that, the players themselves.
Caitlin Foord, Sam Kerr, Alanna Kennedy and Ellie Carpenter making the inaugural FIFPRO Asia/Oceania Team of the Tournament, being adjudged as the best players at the Women's Asian Cup by their peers, with six Japan players on the list along with the four Matildas players and South Korea's Ko Yoo-jin.
Personally I don’t think Caitlin Foord was that good. I think Amy Sayer was better and proved that the new generation is replacing the old one, debunking the idea that the end of the First Golden Generation would cause us to collapse.
I think Caitlin Foord had a couple of howlers during the Matildas' Women's Asian Cup campaign but other players thought she did well which led to her making the list ahead of Amy Sayer.
Bring him to the Tillies, he’s clearly a fan lol!
Surprised that Japan have given Nils Nielsen his marching orders less than two weeks after going all the way in the Women's Asian Cup but if they want to be contenders for the 2027 Women's World Cup then it's understandable for them to be changing their coaching direction in a way which the federation feels is more in line with their expectations.
I wonder if they’ll keep picking foreign coaches. Nils Nielsen was their first foreign coach. Most Japanese people don’t speak English well (though the younger generations are better at it) so not speaking Japanese is probably why they’ve been so reluctant to hire foreign coaches.
Japan likely to be going for a full coaching overhaul after Leah Blayney was also given her marching orders a couple of days after Nils Nielsen got the sack.
