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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel bad for those who went to watch this garbage in this heat. We opted out last minute and I’m glad we did, that was embarrassing. [/quote]

I was waiting for someone to comment on the game.  Garbage is being kind. [/quote]

USWNT like all girls/women soccer in the US does not believe in precision or technical play. Here is what Hayes said.

[quote] United States women's national team boss Emma Hayes said she wanted better decision-making and execution in front of a goal against Costa Rica in the Americans' final match before departing for the 2024 Olympics.

Instead, she got a scoreless draw in which the USWNT took 26 shots and held 80% of the possession against a Ticas squad that played in an ultra-low block -- a 4-2-3-1 "Christmas tree," Hayes noted after the match -- [b]that clogged channels and demanded a precision from the Americans that never came.[/b][/quote]
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40578534/uswnt-head-paris-olympics-question-marks-attack[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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, [b]she plays exactly like Bonmati and the Europeans do by taking chances.[/b]

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. [/quote]

Did you just put Rodman and Bonmati in the same sentence? Puff puff pass homie[/quote]

read it for yourself:

https://fbref.com/en/stathead/player_comparison.cgi?request=1&sum=0&dom_lg=1&player_id1=f3d165f5&p1yrfrom=2023-2024&player_id2=74911ec6&p2yrfrom=2024&player_id3=dcd6a67e&p3yrfrom=2024[/quote]

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