{"id":42432,"date":"2016-04-11T19:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42432"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T23:39:55","slug":"breakers-reveal-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42432","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Reveal Opening Day Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: Boston Breakers<\/p><\/div>\n

With the start of the 2016 National Women\u2019s Soccer League season only days away, the Boston Breakers announced their opening day roster on Monday.<\/p>\n

A total of 10 players will return from last season\u2019s team, most notably 2015 leading scorer Kristie Mewis and 2015 Breakers Rookie of the Year Stephanie McCaffrey. <\/p>\n

Additionally, all three players selected in the 2016 NWSL College draft made the team as well, as Christen Westphal, goalkeeper Abby Smith, and forward Brittany Ratcliffe will be looking to make strong impressions this season.<\/p>\n

The roster also includes three players with experience at the international level, including U.S. Women\u2019s National Team defender Whitney Engen and Swedish international Louis Schillgard, who was able to record three goals and four assists in the preseason.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Libby Stout was also named in the side, and will look to make an impact after playing two seasons in England with Liverpool under current Boston head coach Matt Beard.<\/p>\n

The Breakers open the season at 7:00pm on Saturday against the Washington Spirit at Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyd, Md.<\/p>\n

2016 BOSTON BREAKERS OPENING DAY ROSTER<\/p>\n

ROSTERED PLAYERS (20 of 20 spots filled):
\nGK (2): Abby Smith, Libby Stout
\nDEF (7): Brooke Elby, Whitney Engen (FP-USA), Julie King, Kassey Kallman, Mollie Pathman, Christen Westphal, Rachel Wood
\nMID (7): Sinead Farrelly, Kristie Mewis, Angela Salem, Louise Schillgard, Katie Schoepfer, Stephanie Verdoia, McCall Zerboni
\nFWD (4): Stephanie McCaffrey, Morgan Marlborough, Brittany Ratcliffe, Kyah Simon (INT\u2019L-AUS)<\/p>\n

FEDERATION PLAYERS (FP): 1
\nINT’L ROSTER SPOTS FILLED (INT’L): 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coach Matt Beard finalized his roster for Saturday’s opener at Washington Spirit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":42433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1075],"tags":[1124,891,230,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42436,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42432\/revisions\/42436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}