Rhian Wilkinson's Official Website

Welcome to my website. Since 1st March 2006, we have received 112,500 hits on the site. Thank you. There is obviously a need for National Women's team soccer news and this is now the longest running WNT players' blog in Canada.

I started playing soccer at 5 years old, and I have been fortunate to play for, and against, some of the best teams and players in the world. As women's soccer continues to grow, many young women have set their sights on playing soccer at the top level. My site will provide regular news, not just about Canadian soccer matches, but insights into what it means to be a woman player in the CSA.

I will post background stories about Clubs, my travels, FIFA World Cups, Tournaments and the Olympic Games.

RHIAN'S SOCCER JOURNALS:

HONOURS FOR TEAMMATES & SARA'S WEDDING 23rd July

Despite appearing in only six of the W League Buffalo Flash's eleven games in 2010, Kelly Parker, a Canadian International, emerged as both the Scoring Champion and Goal Scoring Champion of the W-League. Kelly finished with an impressive 27 points (11 goals, 5 assists). READ MORE

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STAVANGER VISIT 13th - 15th July 2010

We left at 9:00 am for our long awaited drive to Stavanger. We had downloaded a small library of podcasts and stand up comedy routines to listen to, but a ten hour drive is still a ten hour drive. Everyone of us was saddle sore by the end of it. Per drove the entire way, and I do not know how he does it.

The journey must have been much worse for him him, especially when we arrived just outside the ferry terminal in Songesand and saw the last boat pulling away. READ MORE

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TOPPSERIEN VACATION & MARY'S VISIT 15th July 2010

The Norwegian Toppserien is currently on summer break. Unfortunately, it is a much shorter break this year than the two months we had off in 2009. The European championships are to blame. However, the two weeks that we do have free this year are still a very welcome vacation for me.

As my LSK teammates disappear away to far off lands, Diana and I are holding down the Norwegian fort. We have team mates playing in the Azores, in Bali, in Turkey, and even in Kenya. These Norwegian soccer players certainly travel, and while they go overseas to play rep soccer, I intend to explore their beautiful country. READ MORE

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DONN DOES FOR LSK July 3, 2010

LSK left for Kristiansand yesterday at 4:00pm. We just turned up at LSK stadium and hit the road. The itinerary was very poor timing for quarter final FIFA World Cup watching. Thank goodness for good friends, family and text messaging, it was almost … yes, almost, like I was watching the games live. The Brazil result was a bit of a shock, but I guess you can never underestimate the underdog. Such a statement of course, segways rather nicely into the fact that we were beaten by Donn today 2 goals to 0. READ MORE

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LSK DEFEATS FLOYA FOR 3rd PLACE IN TABLE 27June 2010

Today, we won our game against Floya by 4-0. Nice to get back to our winning ways. We dominated the match from start to finish and ran those poor Floyans off the field.

The win means that we move to 3rd in the table as the mid-point of the season approaches. LSK has sometimes struggled against Floya, most recently losing to them while training in Turkey, so we needed to play well. This was all the more so, because we played so badly against Roa last weekend. We played well tonight - yeah. READ MORE

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PASTA, BBQ, FESTIVALS AND A LOSS TO ROA, June 13th 2010

We lost to Roa on Saturday by 3-0. To be quite honest, the score could have been way more than that.

Some Press reports mention that we were even playing against them in the first half, but I think this has more to do with them playing badly than us playing well. We were awful, READ MORE