#m.a. vignola

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80' Angel City FC vs Chicago Stars - June 7, 2025

M.A. Vignola goal celebration

Photo by Harry How/NWSL via Getty Images

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uswnt Earning your first cap, in your hometown... Does it get any better?!

Congrats, @mavignolaa 👆🏽

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(Via @/weareangelcity on instagram)

HELL YEAH M.A.!!!!!! I’m so hyped she’s sticking around!

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The Match has reached Full Time in LA. @weareangelcity & @theChicagoStars end in a 2-2 draw. Goals by Fuller & Vignola for Angel City. While Nádia Gomes & Ally Schlegel with the goals, for the Stars. #NWSL #LAvsCHI

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Pink Flops Preseason Roster 2024

Goalkeepers (3): Angelina Anderson, Allie Augur (NRI), DiDi Haračić

Defenders (11): Madison Curry (DRAFT), Elizabeth Eddy, Vanessa Gilles (LOAN, INT-CAN), Sarah Gorden, Merritt Mathias, Paige Nielsen, Sasha Pickard (NRI), Megan Reid, Ali Riley, Jasmyne Spencer, Gisele Thompson, M.A. Vignola

Midfielders (11): Meggie Dougherty Howard, Jessica Garziano (DRAFT), Madison Hammond, Amandine Henry (INT-FRA), Felicia Knox (DRAFT), Sam Kroeger (NRI), Clarisse Le Bihan (INT-FRA), Maggie Lena (NRI), Lily Nabet, Rocky Rodríguez, Claire Winter (NRI)

Forwards (7): Claire Emslie, Jun Endo (INT-JPN), Katie Johnson, Sydney Leroux, Casey Phair, Christen Press, Alyssa Thompson

Key: Non-Roster Invitee (NRI), International Player (INT), Not Yet Reported (NYR), 2023 NWSL Draft pick (DRAFT)

YOU KNOW WHERE MY EYES WENT IMMEDIATELY

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M.A. Vignola is the special guest for the live stream on Saturday. Interesting

Omg i love vignola this is exciting!!!!

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Angel City FC drawing inspiration from Savy King and Jun Endo

Last Saturday was about debuts and returns for the Angel City Football Club. First, Alex Straus made his debut as coach, taking over June 1 after completing his time with Bayern Munich. The game ended in a 2-2 draw thanks to M.A. Vignola’s late goal. Also, highlighting the evening was the return of Savy King to BMO Stadium. The Angel City FC defender collapsed May 9 and days later underwent heart…

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Orlando Pride avoid consecutive defeats with late show against Angel City

Apr 26, 2025, 12:00 AM ET Defending National Women’s Soccer League champions Orlando Pride erased a two-goal halftime deficit to defeat Angel City FC 3-2 on Friday and avoid a second straight loss. The Pride trailed 2-0 at halftime. Orlando forwards Marta and Barbra Banda scored four minutes apart in the second half before Angel City defender M.A. Vignola put the ball into her own net in stoppage…

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I would love to see Dunn at midfield...if we start utilizing our defensive resources correctly. IF players like Krueger and Vignola start getting minutes then our backline will be absolutely set. If our top 3 are still Dunn, Fox, and Huerta then, well, we still need Dunn.

I think Huerta is great for Reign and great on the attack but I don't trust her at all to actually defend at the international level. Specifically her ability to recover is not up to par imo. And we can't have Trinity or Lynn needing to get back and cover for her, we need them to actually stay on the attack.

Sofia is not an international caliber defender in any capacity. The fact that she was on the World Cup roster was legitimately shocking to me. M.A. needs to be integrated immediately she’s LIGHTS OUT for Angel City. And obviously my thoughts on Casey are not a surprise. I adore her. And I adore her ability to get up and join the attack. I want her and Fox on the wings in the same game DESPERATELY.

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80' Angel City FC vs Chicago Stars - June 7, 2025

M.A. Vignola goal celebration

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This is 🔥🔥

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Announcing Tobin means you’re getting the media circus. I’d be putting that off for as long as possible too. If this were a team who needed the hype, than sure. But this team is selling out tickets even without a big name like Tobin. I also think it’s way too coincidental that they happen to have one spot left on the roster to sign a player. I’ve seen some people say that there’s technically 3 spots left since Gilles and Swaby are on loan and don’t count against the roster but idk about that.

Personally i count 23 spot taken if i don't count Gilles and Swaby. This is the 32 player roster and if i take off everyone who is loaned out or not contracted i get to this.

Goalkeepers (3): Angelina Anderson, DiDi Haračić, Brittany Isenhour

Defenders (8): Vanessa Gilles (LOAN, INT), Sarah Gorden, Madison Hammond, Kelsey Hill (NRI), Merritt Mathias, Paige Nielsen, Megan Reid, Ali Riley, Jasmyne Spencer, Allyson Swaby (LOAN), Gisele Thompson (U-18 trialist), M.A. Vignola

Midfielders (7): Claire Emslie, Jun Endo (INT), Shae Harvey (U-18 trialist), Clarisse Le Bihan (INT), Savannah McCaskill, Lily Nabet, Mackenzie Pluck, Katie Soderstrom (NRI), Dani Weatherholt

Forwards (5): Simone Charley, Katie Johnson, Sydney Leroux, Mia Minestrella (U-18 trialist), Christen Press (SEI), Alyssa Thompson

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Also, 90% of the original roster? Preseason roster from 2022:

Goalkeepers: Sydney Cassalia (NRI), DiDi Haračić, Brittany Isenhour, Maia Perez (NRI)

Defenders: Vanessa Gilles (INTL), Sarah Gorden, Paige Nielsen, Ali Riley, Allyson Swaby, M.A. Vignola

Midfielders: Hope Breslin, Katie Cousins, Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel (INTL, NYR), Savannah McCaskill, Lily Nabet, Cari Roccaro, Miri Taylor (INTL), Dani Weatherholt

Forwards: Simone Charley, Claire Emslie (NYR), Jun Endo (INTL), Tyler Lussi, Katie McClure, Christen Press, Jasmyne Spencer

And out of the players left, from the inaugural season a few never played (Vignola, Gorden). Two are injured (Charley, Press). Multiple are free agents (notably Weatherholt and McCaskill).

anon bringing the facts

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Angel City FC rallies late to earn draw with Chicago

LOS ANGELES — Alex Straus was put through all of the levels in the wild Angel City Football Club experience in his debut Saturday night. Straus, who took over June 1, saw Angel City score first, then fall behind on two second-half goals, but the night was eventually saved. In the 80th minute, M.A. Vignola, who moments earlier avoided having a handball violation called against her, which would…

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Inquiring Minds: Researching a Star of Silent Cinema

Inquiring Minds: Researching a Star of Silent Cinema By Wendi Maloney Published July 10, 2019 at 08:58AM

If you watched the Academy Awards in 2012, you probably remember “The Artist.” The mostly silent black-and-white French comedy-drama garnered 10 nominations and won five Oscars — including for best picture. But perhaps the most stunning thing about the film for many modern movie lovers was its revelation of the power of silent storytelling. For Giuliana Muscio, however, this was nothing new. She teaches film studies at the University of Padova in Italy and writes about film, mostly American. This spring, her research brought her to the Library, where she spent a week ensconced in the reading room of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division investigating the subject of her next book: Robert G. Vignola, an Italian immigrant to the U.S. who directed and acted in American silent movies. 

Giuliana Muscio

Tell us a little about yourself. I was born in Friuli in northeastern Italy and studied at the University of Padova, where I earned a B.A. in contemporary history. I have an M.A. and a Ph.D. in film studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. I am the first woman to be nominated full professor of film studies in Italy. I have also been a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Minnesota.

I work mostly on American cinema, from its origins to contemporary cinema. I write both in Italian and in English on film relations between the U.S. and Italy, American film history, Italian screenwriters and the influence of Italian stage traditions on American media. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Hollywood’s New Deal,” was based on primary research on Franklin D. Roosevelt and media. My most recent book, “Napoli/New York/Hollywood,” deals with the influence of the Italian diaspora on American film and the presence of Italian artists in American media. In 2018, I co-curated the exhibit “Italy in Hollywood” at the Museum Ferragamo in Florence, and I co-directed the documentary “Robert Vignola from Trivigno to Hollywood.”

Marion Davies in her role in Vignola’s “When Knighthood Was in Flower” from a color ad in the fan magazine “Photoplay.”

Who was Robert Vignola? Vignola was born in southern Italy in 1882 and emigrated to the U.S. with this family when he was 3. He grew up in Albany, New York, and started a career as a stage actor when he was quite young, later becoming involved in filmmaking in New York City. Starting in the 1910s, Vignola worked with Kalem Films, both as an actor and a director. In 1911, he travelled to Ireland, where he acted in the first films made there, and he also participated the making of “From the Manger to the Cross,” shot in Palestine in 1912. Between 1913 and 1916, he directed and acted in several shorts for Kalem, then he moved to Paramount, where he directed some of the most important actresses of the time — Pauline Frederick, Alice Brady, Marguerite Clark, Clara K. Young, Constance Talmadge and Ethel Clayton. In 1920, William Randolph Hearst hired Vignola at Cosmopolitan Productions, where he directed five Marion Davies films, including “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” promoted as the most expensive film made in the 1920s.

Between 1916 and 1925, Vignola was recognized as one of the main directors in American cinema, and his salary was among the highest. His career declined, however, in the mid-1920s when the film industry completed its transfer to the West Coast, where he moved only later, and the studio system became more structured.

Why is he important to cinema history? My work on Vignola covers an underinvestigated period of American film history — 1914 to 1925 — and calls attention to other Italian filmmakers, such as Frank Capra, Gregory LaCava and Frank Borzage, fostering a new perspective on their influence on American silent cinema.

This wasn’t your first time at the Library. How were you introduced? I know the Library and its motion picture collection well. It is indeed one of the best places to research American cinema. In 1974, I researched my Italian thesis, “Models and Stereotypes of Cold War American Cinema, 1945–1951,” at the Library, analyzing cultural changes in film genres and the relationship between Hollywood and Washington, for which I viewed about 100 films at the Library.

What was your experience this time around? I was not aware until recently of how rich the collections are for the study of early silent cinema. For my Vignola research, I was able to see six of his films or fragments of them, among a total of only 20 extant titles (or excerpts), including shorts. I found synopses of some Kalem shorts in the copyright deposit files; I accessed a rare publication on the making of “From the Manger to the Cross”; and I consulted collections of reviews. I especially appreciated being able to read the magazine “Dramatic Mirror” and issues of the film-fan magazine “Photoplay.” Although some of these materials may be available online, reading entire volumes of the magazine allowed me to perceive the context in which Vignola worked and discover unmapped items, too.

When I think about it, it is amazing how much I was able to achieve in only one week at the Library this spring, thanks to the generous support of everybody there, the great assortment of historical materials on offer and, most of all, the easy access to them.

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