Angels On Parade

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Veteran has career year with Angels. 2022 was in many ways a career year for Cari Roccaro. The midfielder joined Angel City FC after being traded from the North Carolina Courage, where she spent four seasons, winning back-to-back Shield-league doubles in 2018-19. For most of her prior NWSL tenure, Roccaro had been a rotation or depth … [Read more...] about Angel City FC 2022 Player Postmortem: Cari Roccaro

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Depth forward still got on the board. Cal Jennings returned for his second season with LAFC in 2022. The Central Florida product joined in 2021 after a good season in the USL Championship with Memphis 901 FC, and Bob Bradley was on the prowl for the next diamond in the rough from that circuit. After seeing sparse playing time with the … [Read more...] about LAFC 2022 Player Postmortem: Cal Jennings

Photo by Omar Vega/Getty Images Plenty to track from a black-and-gold perspective. LAFC have five currently rostered players headed to the 2022 World Cup, and a few more former players en route as well. Given LAFC have been around just five years, that’s pretty good. Obviously, this is a rather odd World Cup, coming in a country that previously had just one … [Read more...] about Current (and former) LAFC players headed to 2022 World Cup

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Big changes coming to the Challenge Cup. The NWSL announced the broad outlines of the 2023 schedule on Thursday. That does not mean any fixtures are out, but some basic dates are out, so you can start planning. Love it! The big news is the NWSL Challenge Cup will no longer come before the start of the regular season, but instead run … [Read more...] about NWSL reveal 2023 schedule outline

Every player here except Cal Jennings (left) played only for Las Vegas in 2022. | Courtesy of LAFC Kicking off our annual series. LAFC had 30 players feature for the first team in 2022, an historic campaign that featured the club winning a domestic double of the Supporters’ Shield and MLS Cup. But there were also players rostered who didn’t get on the field this year … [Read more...] about LAFC 2022 Player Postmortem: The players who didn’t see the field