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:
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.
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