2009 Washington Freedom season
The 2009 season is Washington Freedom's first season competing in the Women's Professional Soccer league, the top division of women's soccer in the United States, and seventh competitive season. The team was coached by Jim Gabarra who has led the team since its founding in 2001.[1]
2009 season | |
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General Manager | Chris Hummer |
Head Coach | Jim Gabarra |
Stadium | Maryland SoccerPlex |
WSP | 3rd |
Top goalscorer | Abby Wambach (6) |
Review
In January 2008, Washington was selected as one of the seven cities to launch Women’s Professional Soccer in spring 2009. The WPS would be the next iteration of a women’s professional league since the WUSA folded in 2003.[2]
The Washington Freedom had been competing in the W-League since 2006, would begin the Washington franchise to field a WSP team. Still led by head coach Jim Gabarra, the coaching staff stayed intact transitioning to the new league. The initial player allocation aimed to keep players in preferred locations and best marketing potential, with the Freedom getting Abby Wambach, Cat Whitehill, and Ali Krieger (on loan from FFC Frankfurt).[3][4][5]
The Freedom played in the league’s inaugural match on March 29, 2009, against Los Angeles Sol before a crowd of 14,382.[6] They lost the match, 2–0, and struggled for the first three weeks. The Freedom picked up their first win of the WPS era back in California, beating FC Gold Pride, 3-4, thanks to a 90th-minute goal from Abby Wambach.[7]
The season continued to be an up and down one with a strong run through June (going undefeated through 8 matches) followed by three consecutive losses. Winning four of their last five, the Freedom finished their first WPS regular season in 3rd place, earning their first playoff appearance.
The first round playoff match was a rematch of the last week of the season, where the Freedom defeated Sky Blue FC at home 3-1.[8] Sky Blue would get revenge winning 2-1 at the Maryland SoccerPlex, thanks to an 85th minute goal from Francielle.[9]
Club
Roster
The first-team roster of Washington Freedom.[10]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Team management
- 2009 coaching staff[10]
Position | Name | Nationality |
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Head coach | Jim Gabarra | |
Assistant coach | Clyde Watson | |
Goalkeeper coach | Nicci Wright |
Competition
Regular season
March 29, Sun 1 | Los Angeles Sol | 2–0 | Washington Freedom | Carson, California |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Falk Abily |
Box Score | Stadium: StubHub Center |
April 11, Sat 2 | Washington Freedom | 1–1 | Chicago Red Stars | Germantown, Maryland |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Sauerbrunn |
Box Score | Tarpley Östberg |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
April 18, Sat 3 | Washington Freedom | 1–3 | Boston Breakers | Germantown, Maryland |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Lindsey |
Box Score | Smith Latham Hucles |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
April 26, Sun 4 | FC Gold Pride | 3–4 | Washington Freedom | Hayward, California |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Milbrett Weimer Sinclair |
Box Score | Wambach Lindsey Long |
Stadium: Pioneer Stadium |
May 3, Sun 5 | Washington Freedom | 3–3 | Saint Louis Athletica | Germantown, Maryland |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Bompastor De Vanna Wambach |
Box Score | Daniela McNeill Aluko Weber {{yel}90}} |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
May 17, Sun 6 | Boston Breakers | 1–1 | Washington Freedom | Boston, Massachusetts |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Weber Scott Latham |
Box Score | Gilbeau Moros Singer |
Stadium: Harvard Stadium |
May 23, Sat 7 | Washington Freedom | 2–1 | Sky Blue FC | Washington, DC |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Whitehill De Vanna DeDycker |
Box Score | Dowling Rosana Asante Keselica |
Stadium: RFK Stadium[11] |
May 31, Sun 8 | Washington Freedom | 3–1 | FC Gold Pride | Germantown, Maryland |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Graczyk De Vanna Whitehill |
Box Score | Forminga Sinclair Dew |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
June 7, Sun 9 | Los Angeles Sol | 3–1 | Washington Freedom | Carson, California |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Abily Bock Boxx |
Box Score | Lohman Bompastor |
Stadium: Home Depot Center |
June 13, Sat 10 | Washington Freedom | 0–0 | Chicago Red Stars | Washington, DC |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Wambach Bompastor |
Box Score | Klein Rapinoe Carney |
Stadium: RFK Stadium[12] |
June 20, Sat 11 | Saint Louis Athletica | 0–1 | Washington Freedom | Fenton, Missouri |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Addis Cinalli |
Box Score | Moros |
Stadium: Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park |
June 24, Wed 12 | Boston Breakers | 1–0 | Washington Freedom | Boston, Massachusetts |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Latham Tomecka |
Box Score | Moros |
Stadium: Harvard Stadium |
July 1, Wed 13 | Chicago Red Stars | 2–1 | Washington Freedom | Bridgeview, Illinois |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Spilger Cristiane Tarpley |
Box Score | Wambach |
Stadium: Toyota Park |
July 5, Sun 14 | Washington Freedom | 0–1 | Los Angeles Sol | Germantown, Maryland |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Box Score | Larkin Boxx Marta |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
July 15, Wed 15 | Sky Blue FC | 4–4 | Washington Freedom | Piscataway Township, New Jersey |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Kai Dowling White |
Box Score | Bompastor De Vanna Cat Whitehill |
Stadium: Yurcak Field |
July 18, Sat 16 | Washington Freedom | 1–0 | Saint Louis Athletica | Washington, DC |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Sawa |
Box Score | Larsson |
Stadium: RFK Stadium |
July 26, Sun 17 | Chicago Red Stars | 2–3 | Washington Freedom | Bridgeview, Illinois |
16:00 EDT (UTC-04) | Rapinoe Carney |
Box Score | Wambach Long Bompastor |
Stadium: Toyota Park |
July 29, Wed 18 | Washington Freedom | 1–0 | Boston Breakers | Germantown, Maryland |
20:00 EDT (UTC-04) | Wambach Whitehill |
Box Score | Scott Mitts |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
August 1, Sat 19 | FC Gold Pride | 3–2 | Washington Freedom | Hayward, California |
15:30 EDT (UTC-04) | Yokers Milbrett Dew Adriane |
Box Score | Sawa |
Stadium: Pioneer Stadium |
August 8, Sat 20 | Washington Freedom | 3–1 | Sky Blue FC | Germantown, Maryland |
19:00 EDT (UTC-04) | Wambach De Vanna |
Box Score | Rosana |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex |
Regular season standings
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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1 | Los Angeles Sol | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 10 | +17 | 41 | Regular Season Champion |
2 | Saint Louis Athletica | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 15 | +4 | 34 | WPS Playoffs |
3 | Washington Freedom | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 29 | |
4 | Sky Blue FC | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 20 | −1 | 26 | |
5 | Boston Breakers | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 20 | −2 | 25 |
WPS playoffs
The Freedom finished 3rd in the table earning a place in the WPS Playoffs in a First Round match up versus 4th place Sky Blue FC. Despite having defeated Sky Blue on the final day of the regular season, the Freedom dropped the First Round match at home after conceding a late goal to Francielle.
August 15, 2009 First Round | Washington Freedom | 1–2 | Sky Blue FC | Germantown, Maryland |
4:00 pm EDT | De Vanna |
Report | Kai Francielle |
Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex Attendance: 4,217 Referee: Daniel Fitzgerald |
Statistics
- As of January 6, 2019[14]
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | WPS | Playoffs | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
Defenders: | |||||||||
2 | DF | Sarah Senty | 8 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
4 | DF | Cat Whitehill | 20 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
11 | DF | Emily Janss | 5 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
21 | DF | Alex Singer | 17 | 0 | 13+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | |
22 | DF | Becky Sauerbrunn | 21 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
24 | DF | Christen Karniski | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
27 | DF | Ali Krieger | 11 | 0 | 9+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Midfielders: | |||||||||
3 | MF | Jill Gilbeau | 20 | 0 | 12+7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
5 | MF | Joanna Lohman | 7 | 0 | 2+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | MF | Lori Lindsey | 20 | 2 | 18+1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
7 | MF | Parrissa Eyorokon | 4 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | MF | Sonia Bompastor | 19 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
9 | MF | Allie Long | 19 | 2 | 11+7 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | |
10 | MF | Homare Sawa | 21 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
14 | MF | Sarah Huffman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | |
15 | MF | Kristin DeDycker | 7 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
19 | MF | Rebecca Moros | 20 | 2 | 13+6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
26 | MF | Madison Keller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Forwards: | |||||||||
17 | FW | Lisa De Vanna | 21 | 7 | 16+4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
20 | FW | Abby Wambach | 18 | 8 | 16+1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
25 | FW | Clair Zimmeck | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goalkeepers
No. | Nat | Player | Women's Professional Soccer | ||||||||
GP | GS | MIN | W | L | D | GA | GAA | CS | |||
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1 | Briana Scurry | 3 | 3 | 270 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1.97 | 0 | |
18 | Erin McLeod | 14 | 14 | 1260 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 1.41 | 3 | |
23 | Nicci Wright | 1 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | |
61 | Kati Jo Spisak | 3 | 3 | 244 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2.18 | 1 | |
Honors and awards
Player of the Week
Week | Player of the Week | Week's Statline |
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Week 5 | 2 G (18', 90') GWG, 1 A (51') | |
Week 6 | 2 G (29', 90') | |
Week 13 | 7 SVS, SHO | |
Week 18 | 2 G (35', 56') | |
Week 20 | 1 A (58'), 2 G (20', 49') |
Player of the Month
Month | Player of the Month | Month's Statline |
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May | 2 G, 3 A in 4 games; Freedom 2–0–2 in May | |
July | 4 G, 1 A in 5 games; Freedom 3–2–1 in July |
Transfers
As part of the inaugural season, each of the league’s seven teams went through several mechanisms for player acquisitions to fill out their rosters. These included:
- WPS Player Allocation – allocation of existing US national team players across the league
- International Draft – draft of international players across the league
- General Draft – draft of existing professional players not active with their respective national teams
- Draft – inaugural college draft
In
Out
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