2023 Iowa Collection Update: Soccer

 2022 was not a terribly successful year for my soccer collection.  I made exactly one addition to my collection, and it was a card I had already.  Let me explain.

This is Celia Jimenez.  She played for Iowa Western and this card is from the NWSL Parkside set.  I had bought a couple of hanger boxes of these and this card was amongst the rest of them, but I never realized that Celia = Celia Jimenez.  Only when I was updating TCDB checklists did I recognize this card and thought, "Wait, I think I have that one!"  This card puts me on the board, and up to 15th place for her.  It is also my only Soccer Iowa Connection card.

Marcus Hahnemann	0	0	17	0	0	14	Sioux City
Ezra Hendrickson	0	0	5	0	0	5		Drake
Celia Jimenez	15	1	19	0	0	9		Iowa Western

The want list did grow this year.  Besides the additional cards added for Marcus Hahnemann and Celia Jimenez, I added new connections.  First were the Cedar Rapids Rampage players:

Tony Walls	0	0	1
Jamar Beasley	0	0	1

An Iowa Hawkeye:

Cloé Lacasse

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13

And last, and definitely not least, the Des Moines Menace players:

Chris Brunt	0	0	131
Deshorn Brown	0	0	95
Lamar Neagle	0	0	87
Andre Shinyashiki	0	0	81
Chris Mueller	0	0	71
Andy Gruenebaum	0	0	27
Tom Barlow	0	0	26
Justin Davis	0	0	5
Daniel Johnson	0	0	5
Laurie Calloway	0	0	4
Mike Jeffries	0	0	4
Danny Cruz	0	0	3
Josh Wicks	0	0	3
Andrew Duran	0	0	2
Tighe Dombrowski	0	0	1
Chase Wileman	0	0	1
Kirk Wilson	0	0	1
Joe Amico	0	0	1
Sam Brotherton	0	0	1
Luke Haakenson	0	0	1
Luis Piffer	0	0	1
Austin Ledbetter	0	0	1
Carl Schneider	0	0	1

I don't dabble in soccer cards much.  I do pick up players from the US National team when I see them, but they don't show up in the dime boxes I rummage through.  So, I guess I don't know if there is a lack of trades for these cards because the community is smaller, or because I don't have soccer cards to offer in exchange.  My guess is that in order to make some trades by 2024, I'll need to add bait that soccer collectors would want.