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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USNT looked a southwest awful against Vietnam and Vietnam didn’t even get a shot on goal.  We also got rattled way too easily.  These women were half the size of our players yet throwing us down like rag dolls.  That should have been handled on the field to let those players know they are t getting away with it- if ref wasn’t going to do anything.

Alex had a good assist, but was way off tonight.  [/quote]

Argentina lost to Saudi on the 1st game and won the World Cup.  I don't think the first game means anything. [/quote]

Agreed. France, England, US all looked a bit sluggish in their openers, but those teams along with Spain will be there in the end. Was also pleasantly surprised by Haiti. Decent team. [/quote]

France is not considered contender and Spain brought its B and C squad. [/quote]

The Vegas odds makers have Spain with the second best odds to win it all. [/quote]

Yes it is strange. Would have been nice to see the Spanish A team. The A team is much better(and mostly play for one club) vs what they brought to the World Cup. Also they did not suffer the injuries that most of the others top teams have suffered. It is bizarre that they did not fire the coach and move on. [/quote]

This is not a B or C team. A few good players haven't come back after the protest, but some of the best players have, including Putellas (probably the best player in the world but coming off an ACL injury), Battle, Bonmati, Hermoso, Paredes. Some of those who have taken themselves out of running wouldn't have been starters given how good some of the young ones who have replaced them are.

"Some of the signatories, including Manchester United's Ona Battle and Aitana Bonmati, have returned to the squad, while others seen as sympathetic to the complaints, like Jennifer Hermoso and Irene Paredes, are back in the fold too. Whether Alexia Putellas would be involved was also a cause for concern. The two-time Ballon d'Or winner had somewhat stayed out of this situation after she sustained an ACL injury on the eve of the Euros. She didn't play at all for Barcelona until late in the season, and both her fitness and her views on the protests were unknown quantities. Happily for Spain fans, she too is back, and the upheaval has even allowed some younger faces into the side."

The absence of some of the senior team members has also made it possible for others to come up from the youth team, which might have even been better for the senior team. Spain has an incredible level of talent pipeline that is improving every year as the women's game soars. This is what happens when a soccer-crazy culture like France and Spain take to women's football.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/spain-women-world-cup-2023-squad-team-roster-players
https://www.goal.com/en/lists/spain-women-world-cup-2023-squad-who-is-in/blt8c5c0231fbbeea8b[/quote]

[quote] Women’s World Cup: [b]Spain pick three of 15 players who quit national side in 2022[/b]

The Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas has also been included in the preliminary list of 30 for Australia and New Zealand having finally overcome the knee injury that forced her to miss the European Championship last summer, as has Irene Paredes who first returned to the national team after a seven-month absence in March. Neither Putellas nor Paredes had sent the letter but both supported those who had.

Aitana Bonmatí and Mariona Caldentey from Barcelona and Manchester United’s Ona Batlle have been included in the initial squad, which will be reduced to 23 at the end of June. They had all previously spoken to the federation about a return. The other 12 players who pulled out in September last year – [b]among them the Champions League winners Patri Guijarro, Mapi León and Sandra Paños [/b]– have not been called up. In March, León said: “It will really piss me off not to go to the World Cup but my values come first.”[/quote]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jun/12/spain-pick-three-of-the-15-players-who-quit-national-team-last-year-for-world-cup

Alexia has not come back from her injury.

[quote] Why are Barcelona stars missing from Spain's 2023 Women's World Cup squad? Absences of Patri Guijarro, Mapi Leon and more explained

[b]Stars from Barca, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester Utd and more will not play for Spain at the World Cup. [/b]Why?

In the build-up to the 2023 Women's World Cup, no nation has had more uncertainty surrounding its squad than Spain. That's because in the weeks that followed the 2022 Women's Euros, [b]15 members of the team withdrew from selection, six of whom would be key to a Barcelona side that lifted the Women's Champions League trophy in June.[/b][/quote]

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/why-barcelona-stars-missing-spain-2023-women-s-world-cup-squad-absences-patri-guijarro-mapi-leon-explained/blta26334ca1486764b
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