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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the 2023 Women’s World Cup, there are 53 American citizens who will be representing 13 teams outside of the United States. Of course, when you add the USWNT, that brings the total to 76 players representing 14 teams at the World Cup. That’s a true testament to the sheer number of women’s soccer players we have in the United States who are elite enough to play at the international level on the world’s brightest stage.

Argentina (1) - Sophia Braun

Canada (1) - Simi Awujo

Colombia (2) - Ángela Barón, Elexa Bahr

Haiti (5) - Chelsea Purpris, Danielle Étienne, Lara Larco, Milan Pierre-Jérôme, Noa Ganthier

Ireland (5) - Chloe Mustaki, Courtney Brosnan, Kyra Carusa, Marissa Sheva, Sinead Farrelly

Jamaica (11) - Allyson Swaby, Chantelle Swaby, Cheyna Matthews, Kameron Simmonds, Kayla McCoy, Kiki Van Zanten, Lyla Brooks, Peyton McNamara, Solai Washington, Sydney Schneider, Tiernny Wiltshire

Netherlands (1) - Damaris Egurrola

New Zealand (1) - Ali Riley

Nigeria (4) - Ifeoma Onumonu, Michelle Alozie, Toni Payne, Yewande Balogun

Panama (2) - Carina Baltrip, Riley Tanner

Philippines (18) - Alicia Barker, Carleigh Frilles, Chandler McDaniel, Dominique Randle, Hali Long, Isabella Flanigan, Jessika Cowart, Kaiya Jota, Katrina Guillou, Kiara Fontanilla, Malea Cesar, Olivia Davies-McDaniel, Quinley Quezada, Reina Bonta, Ryley Bugay, Sarina Bolden, Sofia Harrison, Tahnai Annis

Switzerland (1) - Noelle Maritz

South Korea (1) - Casey Phair[/quote]

I think it's important to note that the US is the size of like 300M people or something.  And we have A LOT of girls who happen to play sports, of which one is soccer.  We have Title IX allowing this, thus female college teams and a pro woman league.  We have a lot of people in this country playing.  You take a country like Brazil who do not have a flurry of girls.  Well, talent wise, it makes sense that the US will have players the rest of the world would field.  Notice they are not playing for US :)

On some level, you have to weigh how good are these girls?  The home countries ie Philippines, Jamaica and Haiti, - they are just developing their infrastructure for women soccer so if they are going to have a team currently, it likely is not local.  As they develop as US did post Title IX, watch out!

DD at U12 asked me how it was that US has been so dominant and I told her it very much that years ago, Title IX inspired girls to move forward with opportunities to play sports at a high level.  She also asked me why the US wasn't that good LOL to which I responded well, I think in US, soccer is not a sport that is embedded in our culture.  I don't see girls just randomly playing pick up games like inner city boys play basketball.  To an extent, I don't feel there is a specific passion culturally for soccer in the US as in rest of the world.

So once the other soccer savvy countries tap into large populations of female talent, they will have more depth than us.  We have more players currently that can play with some aptitude, but I'm not convinced we train effectively.  I manage my expectations about US soccer, men and women.  I love the game but I love to watch other countries play :)  [/quote]

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