USWNT tonight at Audi?
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Anonymous
But the last World Cup is only a year ago. As you may well know, the US team roster is different and has many new and young players. And why do you emphasize “favoritism”? USWNT is not like your kids’ travel soccer team. |
Anonymous
USWNT like all girls/women soccer in the US does not believe in precision or technical play. Here is what Hayes said.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40578534/uswnt-head-paris-olympics-question-marks-attack |
Anonymous
| Please have anyone looked at group the US is in? It’s a cake walk. |
Anonymous
Lacking precision is right! Morgan was always too slow to fire, but the best striker we had for the past decade. Trinity is a winger that has potential, but IMO she is on the team because of upside, not because of where she is today technically or mentally. And her soccer IQ and her service to teammates in for scoring opportunities is awful. Sophia Smith is not a 9, she’s not a winger either. She isn’t technical enough to be a 10, so she is really sort of non-positioned forward. Her development is a mess. Swanson is the closest we have to a 9, but she doesn’t want to be a 9, she wants to be a 10. But she too isn’t technically skilled enough to be a 10. We have a lot of young talent that can ball, but you can’t build teams around them as a striker (Jaden Shaw for example). US soccer decided - when looking at the development quadrants (Psychological - Social - Technical - Physical) to go all in on Physical, because it’s the only one that can be most controlled from the top down. Look at what Carli Lloyd (as annoying as she is) said about how they’d force the NT athletes to do their regimens, and she would have to sneak away to do the work she knew she needed for her body and style. The idea that the world is catching up is stupid, it isn’t. We’re just filtering, rewarding, and building teams poorly at the national team level. And our poor decisions are catching up to us, not the rest of the world. We need better passing, higher soccer IQ up top, and a world class striker. |
Anonymous
| Its the brand and marketing potential where the favorites are played. The players are part of the problem but its not a lack of skill its a lack of real competition Take Trinity, we all know there are like 10-15 other Trinity Rodman's who could suit up for USWNT and do what she has given the team to date. Her skill set is nothing special, but she's flashy with own move now, dumb marketing but slick move, she's attractive to men and women, marketable is and understatement and her last name is Rodman, she was a celebrity before she could ever control it. So I don't blame her but can she get some competition please! She played I believe 90 mins both games, and showed little at the WC 23 to boot. Sophia Smith needs to get her ish together as well being cute is only going to last so long you need to start scoring like Alex did in her prime otherwise we have other players and other combos that should be considered if the Olympics to no go well. Hayes has the right ideas but will need time, she was a club coach and will not have the same face time with players she is used to, so it will take time. |
Anonymous
Trolling or real ignorance? Your kidding I hope... |
Anonymous
You had a nice litte post going on here until you said this. The world has caught up and if you think otherwise you are the dummy I'm afraid. US should still dominate with its head start for now, and will remain a contender in the global womens soccer moving forward but they are no longer the world's footy queens is a fact. The solution, youth academies like that have been in place now for a decade in the western european superpowers. Infracture is in place with UEFA male clubs so it just about adding women's team expenditure to the ambitious clubs that know fans will show up for a talented women's team, see Barca. We don't have the infrastructure after u17 in this country to truly compete globally moving forward unless you still believe college is the answer for developing elite global soccer talent. |
Anonymous
I feel like people like this are just 5'11" white guys that like to sound like they know soccer because their kid plays in an ECNL RL team and they randomly picked Chelsea as a team to follow at 29 years old. Go watch Rodman's last game - Spirit v. Bay FC and continue to tell me she has bad service and low soccer IQ. You couldn't be more off. If anything, she plays exactly like Bonmati and the Europeans do by taking chances. Carli Lloyd is an outlier that listened to no data or science. She's a 1 of 1. But she also played in an era where Rapinhoe would hoof it 30 yards into the box and a 6' American could head it in. The ol' kick and chase that Loudoun loves so much. Surprise, that doesn't work anymore. These new players and coach have 4 games together and you're throwing in the towel on the entire development structure. But I'm sure that development structure is awesome when your kid makes the first team in ECNL. Re: Smith - Spain's #9, Hermoso has a billion goals in her lifetime - how many did she score in the WC? 3? Against Zambia and a 5-1 Swiss blowout? National team soccer is an entirely different beast and development has almost nothing to do with it. Costa Rica dropped 6 high school kids in front of the net and we just ripped the ball at them constantly. |
Anonymous
All of the players on the last world cup team should have been scrapped save maybe one or two. But as they did with Morgan and Rapinoe they're going to hold on to the players they crowned as stars until they get embarrassed enough. |
Anonymous
rumor has it trinity does not take criticism at all. she was the player of the match yesterday and i felt she played very poorly. hard to play soccer well when your feet betray you 75% of the time. she is big and she is fast. it's a popularity contest. don't see much changing but we should compete for trophies in all tournaments. |
Anonymous
+100 FACTS |
Anonymous
Did you just put Rodman and Bonmati in the same sentence? Puff puff pass homie |
Anonymous
Agree. That whole post was a laugh. He wrote all that only to say that a handful of Costa Rican high schoolers stopped our top stars from getting in better positions to score. Not sure what ECNL or Loudoun specifically has to do with this. |
Anonymous
We had tickets but sold them last week when we looked at the weather forecast. Glad we did. |
Anonymous
PP here. Great take on what I said. I don’t disagree with you at all. The distinction I make is between “caught up” and “catching up.” I don’t think the world has caught up, but they are certainly catching up. And we may not agree that it’s a distinction with a difference, but I think you’re spot on with the “why” of that delta closing. |