2023 D3 Men's Soccer National Perspective

[northman]

Looks like Salvador has only gotten 20 minutes so far this season.  But I bet his British accent is charming with the young ladies in Texas...

[SimpleCoach]

While we're talking about connections with popular music groups, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has a son, Salvador, a 6'4" defender playing for Trinity(TX).

So what you are saying is I should pump up Trinity and Salvador ... who is now my front runner for Player of the Year .... and I'll get Ed and the rest of Radiohead to subscribe to the channel?

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[SierraFD3soccer]

While we're talking about connections with popular music groups, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has a son, Salvador, a 6'4" defender playing for Trinity(TX).

So what you are saying is I should pump up Trinity and Salvador ... who is now my front runner for Player of the Year .... and I'll get Ed and the rest of Radiohead to subscribe to the channel?

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Can't hurt.


Hahahaha

[Ron Boerger]

Looks like Salvador has only gotten 20 minutes so far this season.  But I bet his British accent is charming with the young ladies in Texas...

Very hard for freshmen to get much time on the pitch at Trinity(TX) - whose coach, Paul McGinlay is also from England and brings in 2-3 internationals every season.  This year's roster includes six Brits, a Scot, a Dutch, and a Cayman Islander. 

[Ron Boerger]

While we're talking about connections with popular music groups, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has a son, Salvador, a 6'4" defender playing for Trinity(TX).

So what you are saying is I should pump up Trinity and Salvador ... who is now my front runner for Player of the Year .... and I'll get Ed and the rest of Radiohead to subscribe to the channel?

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LOL.  I don't know about the rest of the group but Ed has already given a talk at Trinity on "creativity in music" as result of McGinlay recruiting his son. 

[Gregory Sager]

Looks like Salvador has only gotten 20 minutes so far this season.  But I bet his British accent is charming with the young ladies in Texas...

Very hard for freshmen to get much time on the pitch at Trinity(TX) - whose coach, Paul McGinlay is also from England and brings in 2-3 internationals every season.  This year's roster includes six Brits, a Scot, a Dutch, and a Cayman Islander.

Scots are Brits, Ron.

[WUPHF]

Scots are Brits, Ron.

Except in soccer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team

[Ron Boerger]

Scots are Brits, Ron.

Except in soccer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team

I'll give that one to Mr. Sager, should have said English.   

[Gregory Sager]

Scots are Brits, Ron.

Except in soccer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team

True, although Britain has fielded a combined team in the Olympics as recently as 2012. But the Home Nations -- England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland -- each zealously guards its own autonomous Football Association and thus its right to compete for the World Cup as a separate country apart from the UK standard. So it looks as though it will be quite awhile before another British soccer team marches into a stadium behind the Union Jack for the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics.

[camosfan]

Such a shame, they are currently producing some of the best young talent in the world!

[northman]

I am of Scottish heritage and fiercely support the Scots push for returning to their own independence.  Also, there is an art museum in Edinburgh with a painting depicting the very first foot ball (soccer ball)...going back to the 1700s.  Now that's history!

[Freddyfud]

"Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"

[SimpleCoach]

Ogelthorpe @ Sewanee Game Notes

Game notes if interested.

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[WUPHF]

True, although Britain has fielded a combined team in the Olympics as recently as 2012. But the Home Nations -- England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland -- each zealously guards its own autonomous Football Association and thus its right to compete for the World Cup as a separate country apart from the UK standard. So it looks as though it will be quite awhile before another British soccer team marches into a stadium behind the Union Jack for the opening ceremony of the summer Olympics.

I did not realize that Great Britain fielded a national team for the Olympics.

211 national teams, 195 nations recognized by the United Nations, hard to keep track.

[Kuiper]

For those who weren't following this on the GO WEST thread, the Big Three in the SCAC -- Trinity (6-0-2), St. Thomas (7-0-1) , and Texas Lutheran (9-0) -- all took care of business in impressive fashion tonight, albeit against mostly weaker opponents. 

Trinity 4 - Southwestern 0

The most impressive victory of the three because it was against an undefeated opponent. Having said that, Southwestern was 4-0-3 and its most impressive victory was probably the first of the season against Willamette.  The tie against Elmhurst looks bad in retrospect.  This game, as @RonBoerger summarized in the GO WEST thread, was a tale of two halves, but only in the sense of Southwestern's tactics and aggressiveness.  Trinity won each half 2-0.

St. Thomas 6 - Wiley 0

I have no idea why St. Thomas scheduled this game other than to get a lot of players on the bench some playing time in mid-season.  Wiley is an NAIA team.  Some NAIA teams are quite good since they can give scholarships.  This is not one of those teams.  Wiley came into the game 1-7.  St. Thomas' Taty Aleman got a brace in 45 minutes, Sebastian Ibarolla got a brace in 28 minutes,  4 GKs for St. Thomas got playing time in the game. In fact, 37 players played at least 13 minutes or more for St. Thomas.

Texas Lutheran 4 - Schreiner 0

It looks like a comfortable victory, and it was in the final stats.  Schreiner only took 4 shots, two on goal, compared to Texas Lutheran's 17 and this was TLU's most goals and biggest margin of victory of the season.  Nevertheless, it was only 1-0 at half on a TLU goal with a few minutes left in the half.