(As far as Bears Armed is concerned, this is happening in the year after WC46 which means that [if I've calculated this correctly, according to the revised (4-year) cycle] it's now 2019AD in this nation.) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Team: Bears Armed (alias "the Bear-Bellettes"...).(Yes, this country's 'U21' team is still another all-female
one, like those that we've sent to the BoF & WCs, and like the one that we sent to DBC9 . As I've already explained before this, it's because the main ball-game that's been played in BA so far is actually closer to being a form of Rugby
, but [for several reasons] the professional league for that sport is all-male and so during the last twelve years or so there's been a drive to establish Soccer
as a sport of comparable status to that on behalf of the female players & prospective players.)National football organisation: ‘Bears Armed Association for Soccer’ (= ‘BAAS’).
(Chairbear: Urra-Harrlo o Westfells [Chairbear of Wiston Wanderers S.C.])National anthem: ‘Peace’.
U21s' Manager/Chief Coach: Harrya o Herrchaum _ female Ursine _ Clan = Herrchaum, Soccer experience = 16 years; age = 39, left-pawed, fur = light brown.
(She was #24 in the team for B0F31/WC44, and saw action several times then as a substitute, as a Striker; then was #6, as a starting Midfielder, during WC45.) She probably would have been offered the job of
‘First Deputy Coach’ for the actual 'Bear-Belles', before WC45, if Marra SunDaughter — with whom she’s still friends — hadn’t accepted it. Coached the U21 team for DBC9.
Deputy Coach: Irritti o WildFair _ female Ursine _ Clan = WildWoods, Soccer experience = 15 years, including 7 years playing [as a Midfielder] for the ‘LakePort Lionesss’, 2 years as a Deputy Coach there, and most recently 3 years as Coach of the ‘National University Tigers'
(She still holds the last of those jobs.); age = 31, left-pawed, fur = medium brown, slightly below average in size by Ursine standards.
RosterNobody who has already played in the "main" national team will still be young enough for
this team now.
Most of this team is drawn from that of ‘National University’
(which is located at Council Groves
, the nation’s capital city), which is currently the top 'Honeysuckle League' side. Almost all of the players will be actual
Ursines (i.e. anthropomorpic, bipedal Bears), but there are also two members from the
Harr'aynau people (who are physically human -- more-or-less, although inclined towards heavy builds & hairyness -- but spiritually & culturally Ursine instead), and two actual
Humans, as well.
Usual Starters(#1) Urratharra o Barrdenn _ Clan = GreenWoods, home team = 'National University Tigers', category & usual position = Goalkeeper, 6 years experience of Soccer; age = 18, left-pawed, fur = medium-dark brown, decidedly tall; studying History.
(#2) Harroya o Redwood _ Clan = Redwood, home team = 'King’s University Konquerors', category = Defender, usual position = Left Back, 10 years experience of Soccer; age = 19, left-pawed, fur = medium brown; big, strong, & quite fast; studying Music.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a listed substitute.)(#3) Marraya RedRose _ Clan = RedRose
[‘Free Sept’], home team = 'Mighty Redwoods’
[professional team], category = Defender, usual position = Right Back, 9 years experience of Soccer; age = 20, left-pawed, fur = medium brown with reddish tint; relatively small, but strong and really quite fast.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a reserve.)(#4) Sunnarra o Redwood _ Clan = Redwood, home team = ‘National University Tigers’, category = Defender/Midfielder , usual position = Centre Back or ‘Defensive Centre’, 8 years experience of Soccer; age = 20, right-pawed, fur = light brown; quite fast; studying Military Science; this team’s CAPTAIN.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a listed substitute.) (Sometimes she will start, sometimes #5 will do so instead: this depends mainly on our current opponents' playing style...)(#5) Urraya-Marrla Lightning _ Clan = Gunnar, home team = 'National University Tigers', category = Midfielder/Defender, usual position = Midfield Centre or ‘Defensive Centre’, 5 years experience of Soccer; age = 17, right-pawed, fur = very light brown, big & strong, good eyesight; ‘Pre-Med’ student; perhaps a bit
too inclined to take chances?
(See above...)(#6) Marra-Harroya o Herrchaum _ Clan = Herrchaum, home team = 'National University Tigers', category = Midfielder, usual position = Midfield Left, 7 years experience of Soccer; age = 19, left-pawed, fur = light brown with a greyish tinge; studying Biology.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a reserve.)(#7) Irritti Redwood _ Clan = Redwood, home team = ‘Bullford University’, category = [Defensive] Midfielder, usual position = Midfield Right, 9 years experience of Soccer; age = 20, left-pawed, fur = medium brown; studying ‘Economics and Business Management’.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a reserve.)(#10) Harra MoonChild _ Clan = Silver-of-Night, home team = ‘Heroes’ Park Hawks’
(a ‘Junior League’ team, affiliated to the ‘Heroes Park Harlequins’), category = Forward, usual position = Left Forward, only 3 years Soccer experience but naturally talented; age = 16, ambidextrous, fur = cream-coloured; meditates before matches, and -- as is normal for members of her clan, due to their traditionally 'holy' roles in Ursine society -- does
not participate in the
’harrdiharr’.
(#11) Urrsa SunBlesséd _ Clan = Sun, home team = ‘National University Tigers’, category = Forward, usual position = Centre Forward, 8 years experience of Soccer; age = 18, right-pawed, fur = ‘wheaten’; very good eyesight, and accuracy at long ranges as well as shorter ones; studying Law; this team’s DEPUTY CAPTAIN.
(She was in the team for DBC9, normally as a reserve.)(#12) Jerrannya OldWood _ Clan = Redwood, home team = 'Grambridge University’ – the ‘Blue-Greens’, category = Forward, usual position = Right Forward, 9 years experience of Soccer; age = 20, right-pawed, fur = greyish-brown, has good eyesight.
(She was in the team for DBC9, in this same role.)(#13) Marra Thunder _ Clan = Gunnar, home team = ‘National University Tigers’
(formerly with the ‘Merlchester Babes’, and could have turned professional already if she hadn’t decided to go to university first…), Soccer experience = 7 years; age = 19, left-pawed, fur = dark-medium brown, has a
very powerful kick but sometimes has ‘temper’ problems too; studying Education.
(#14) Karrtla Redwood _ Clan = Redwood, home team = ‘national University Tigers', category = Winger, usual position = Right Winger, 10 years experience of Soccer; age = 20, right-pawed, fur = golden-brown, has good eyesight; studying Dentistry.
(She was in the team for DBC9, in this same role.)(More details to follow...)__________________________________
Style: Offensive, modifier = +2.5, as "A good offence is the best defence"...
Their usual formation will include a front row of at least 5 (normally as 3 Strikers & 2 Wingers), with 2 Midfielders, 2 Backs, and a ‘Defensive Centre’ whose starting position will be at the midpoint of an imaginary cross drawn between those other four non-forwards’ positions: However in some matches they may replace the latter position with either a third Midfielder or a third Back, instead.
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Opponents may _ Choose my goalscorers: Y
(but the Strikers, and then the Wingers, are likeliest to fill this role...)Godmod Scoring Events: Y
RP injuries to my players / Godmod injuries to my players / Hand out Yellow cards to my players / Hand out Red cards to my players: Y to all, at least to start with, but remember what I've written here and keep it in limits accordingly... Any
serious offences by my players would probably result in injuries to
your players, and causing any serious injuries to my players would probably require such obviously-deliberate attacks that your players would get yellow or even red cards as a result too.
Godmod Other Events: Y, I suppose, at least as long as you do so in an AMUSING way... but please remember that Ursines are fully sapient beings, as much as Humans are
(well, almost
so, anyway....), NOT instinct-driven animals. Oh, and
of course female Ursines are NOT sexually interested in Humans (of either sex), and it's very unlikely that female Harr'ayanau would be either. Please
don't have them run amok or outright revert to animality, without checking by TG first, don't make assumptions about their views on politics or religion, and don't do anything that would make more than one of them incapable of playing in their next game...
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Kit (home) = lime-green shirts with bear's-paw emblem (as on the national flag) in pale brown on both front & back; pale brown shorts, with trimming & side-stripes in bands of black, gray & white
(representing the other Ursine stocks...); socks = lime-green.
Kit ('away') = white, with emerald-green
(or what I call 'emerald-green', which seems to be a rather darker shade than some other people do, anyway...) bear's-paw emblem & trimming.
Kit (goalkeepers) = emerald-green, with the bear's-paw emblem in white.
(Identifying numbers will be in black, except on the goalkeeper's emerald-green where they'll be in white instead: Bears Armed has traditionally used base-8 arithmetic, for several reasons, so the sequence used here will be _ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, etc...)You can get
some idea of what the kit looks like
here, although
those designs currently use a lighter green than we meant the term 'emerald' to cover and lack the black/gray/white side-stripes & trimming on the shorts...
NOTESUrsines may tend to be a bit less agile & slower to accelerate than humans
on average, but this team's members
were carefully selected so the gap between them & their opponents in this respect should be narrower than some people might expect. They
do tend to have slightly poorer eyesight than humans, on the whole (although the Sun Clan's members are generally an exception to this rule and
their eyesight is often at better-than-human levels instead), so long-distance passes & shots at goal will tend to be rarer behaviour for them than they are for human teams... but their typical size & strength mean that when they're running with the ball it will probably take a very
brave human -- as well as a very skilled one -- to tackle them successfully, which should balance that factor pretty well. They don’t jump very well, but then they
(especially ,e,bers of Clan Redwood) are generally rather taller than most Human players to start with.
They're physically robust, of course, which means that they're much less likely than humans to suffer injuries in falls or collisions. The females of this species are more even-tempered than the males, and the team's members will try to stay on their best behaviour not only in order to do well in this contest but also to impress upon the watching humans that Ursines aren't just "dumb beasts"... although their youth may leave them a bit more impetuous than the senior team...
They will [i]not 'dive', or feign injury in other ways, because suggesting that they could be harmed so easily goes strongly against the grain.
Cold weather should pose no problem to them, even if there's snow or ice on the pitch, but tropical heat might prove awkward...
At 'home' games, and at 'away' ones too unless their hosts there object, the team's members -- including the designated substitutes for that match -- will perform a [fairly short] ritual that's called the
'harrdiharr' on the pitch just before play begins... This is a traditional war-dance, meant to over-awe opponents, that has come to be a customary prelude for team games as well
(similar to the [RL] New Zealanders' 'haka'...).
As has been seen during previous international competitions, actually including the last Di Bradini Cup, some of our fans like to take drums — and possibly cow-horns, or other "musical instruments", too — along to the matches...[/QUOTE]
They've borrowed the same mascot that the country's "senior" national team took to their final match in WC46. This is a
"bear-tall" 'DoomDuck' that was presented to the BAAS' by the government of fellow
Ursine nation
'The Bear Islands' only a week before that earlier game, a male bird that has been given the name of
'Orville'. His feathers are mostly a fairly dark shade of green, with a light yellow on the belly & under-wings, but with some scarlet "highlights".