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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel bad for Alex Morgan. I feel she should be on this team as a senior leader. [/quote]

No legacy spots. We’ve already made the Megan Rapinoe mistake.[/quote]

Morgan may not be what she once was, but she’s still performing 1000x better than Rapinoe was during the last WC. She’s also a full four years younger than Rapinoe, so this would be akin to Rapinoe being left off the 2019 WC!  The difference, of course, is that Morgan had a baby.

The Rapinoe inclusion (at 38), was just so mind-bogglingly stupid, and rightfully cost Andonovski his job.  Forget Rapinoe’s nasty locker room presence, when she was on the fields last year, we played a woman down.

I think this one could have gone either way, and Morgan’s inclusion would have been much more defensible. [/quote]

Morgan is done. Good career but it is time to move on. She is a player who relies on her athleticism and only that. As a player she came to the game late and lacks the technical skill needed to play a different way. She has lost a step and that’s means she will struggle to score in competitive games. 
Rapinoe’s inclusion in 2019 was a mistake. Slow was slow, out of position most of the time and a turn over machine. Did not matter because the US had the best athletics in every other match up. Basically the US played 10 players when Rapinoe was in the game in 2019 and still won. Can’t do that now. Though only Spain is a threat.[/quote]

You can't compare WC rosters with 23 players versus the 18 (16 field players) on an Olympic roster. It is quite possible that if the Olympics had a 23-player roster, Morgan would be going. Sure, she is not as fast as she used to be, but she brings something valuable in terms of hold-up play and distributing the ball to her teammates. I don't agree that she can't adapt her game as she ages. She has done that, even if she wasn't effective during the WC.

With that said, it's hard to argue with this roster based only on soccer standards. It's a mix of younger and older players. Some of the older players can play multiple positions, so they bring both leadership and versatility. While the Olympics are important, the WC is the ultimate soccer event. If you look at the roster for the 2020 team that played in Tokyo in 2021, Vlatko went with mostly older players, which put the younger players with little international experience at a disadvantage when the WC rolled around.

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