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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big Chloe fan, DD loves her from numerous interactions. Glad she’ll get to a place where at 18 she’s got a chance to shine with 3 pro years under her belt. I wouldn’t write off an 18yo who has been competing for playing time for two seasons with some legit world-class players…[/quote]

Chloe Ricketts gets no playing time with Boston either.[/quote]

It's not going to "happen" for Chloe Ricketts. She may hang around another year, or two, getting minimal game but that will probably be it.  Compared to other teenage girls who have signed with NWSL teams, such as Olivia Moultrie and Ainsley McCammon, Ricketts isn't successful.  She's featured less and done less on the pitch when she does play.

People are welcome to be a "fan" of hers if they like but she won't end up having a noteworthy career in the NWSL. She's accomplished more than most players by getting to play professionally in a top league however,  the end of the line is in sight for her in NWSL.[/quote]

BTW,  forward Chloe Ricketts has been called up to the U.S. U-20 Women's National Team for April camp in Kansas City.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWjaFm9DTaE/[/quote]

BTW, that's the under 20 team. Her professional career in the NWSL Will not amount to anything special. You can be her fan. It won't change anything though. [/quote]

She struggles in her own age group.  It's charity at this point while she fizzles out.[/quote]

Playing U20 WNT is struggling ... Lol. Yeah, not a star and maybe the best she gets is journeyman status but geez dudes the way you all want to take her down. She's doesn't even play here anymore![/quote]

Nobody's "taking her down", Chloe's mom. However,  reality is reality.

People rarely cry for men's league players when their careers don't pan out. Why? Perhaps because they are men. She's a grown woman now, not a little girl. Equal rights is equal rights, professional women's league players can be subject to the same critiques as men's leagues.

It isn't entirely her fault.  Spirit can be blamed for signing her. She's 5'1" on a good day and whilst good, wasn't exceptional and couldn't have been expected to hold her own against legitimate grown women playing in one of the best leagues in the world. Unfortunately,  Spirit may have been trying to sign "their own Olivia Moultree." It didn't work out for them.

She should be happy for the career she will have had. Had she gone to play in college before trying to get in to the NWSL it's very likely she wouldn't have had the opportunity to be in the league at all. [/quote]

I mean sure Freddie Adu got his share of criticism but sorry, it just seems a bit more harsh than the regular critique for a player who hasn't succeeded in getting regular playing time at the pro level yet -- like people didn't like that she signed so early and want her to fail. It's like they WANT a cautionary tale to scare kids into sticking to a certain plan. But as you note, she's maybe succeeded more than she would have otherwise. And she's still 18 and far from done. I mean the way some people write people off is sad, almost depressing. [/quote]

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