US women

My take is this forum is Like Hell's kitchen from Sleepers - no politics or religion.

I just think she isn't good anymore, slower than molasses on the ball, and she is one trick money who can serve balls into the box. and her service isn't even good anymore.

she scored 6 goals in 2019 and had 3 assists.
1 goal for Thailand (blow out victory) - a 3 year old would have scored it, basically a gift from morgan
2 pks vs spain
1 very lucky goal vs france, a strange free kick outside the box, that went through a crowd of bodies
1 goal vs france -- again, a gift from morgan, a ball played through in the box easy finish, almost an empty net
1 pk vs Netherlands


look 6 goals is impressive no doubt, a goal is a goal, but these were all gifts. granted she made the pks, none were superspecial, just beat the keeper, no side nets or clinical finishes. interestingly, most pks were on the ground, so not sure why she is skying the one against sweden.
major credit for scoring those goals, but her play wasn't even great in 2019 -- just right place right time -- morgan gave her 2 goals on a platter -- literally, any human on earth would finish those.

Japan is the most impressive team so far - but still as bad as we were, all you have to do is beat a below average portugal team and your playing south africa in the first round of the knock out stage, and then spain -- eazy road to semis's, then the reaction wouldn't be the sky is falling etc.

I've seen first hand super clinical and technical players - see ucla's #10, Ally Lemos is nasty.
The coach is and was clueless, zero ability to understand tactics and numerical advantages. One thing that is for sure, these girls can't play in tight spaces, maybe horan and few others, but none get or understand why quick short passes are so advantages to get the defenders off balance.
We relied on 3 horses up top, with zero hold up play and our direct balls weren't even good. Very few positive balls into space or dynamic off the ball movement. Alex is different than smith and williams, because her left is super nasty. She never really got the ball in dangerous positions.

If and when I'm the coach I'd plan for every scenario, if Rose gets a yellow card accumulation what will we do, if Smith gets hurt, what will we do, if we lose Horan because of fatigue, what do we do. He seemed to have zero concept of planning for long tournament. I've come across some bad coaches in my days, one was legendary, great monday - Friday coach besides a few things, but come Saturday or Sunday on gameday , the guy had no idea how to manage a roster. From a far this coach appears to just roll the ball out their and say go play.

I still think depth in the other countries is an issue besides Japan. Netherlands are without van de Donk, which probably will have a huge impact on their play. They were missing Miedema, and it was obvious they needed her. England didn't look great, lets see how they play without their player who stomped the girl. Even france, these teams lack depth.

That was our luxury regardless of style of play, we will wear you down and then wear you down even more. the coach didn't even take advangtage of our depth, instead he played a washed up old timer..... I'll stop now.

I read a very interesting article in the LA Times by Bill Plaschke that is spot on. I’ve always asked where is the diversity in the women’s game as it seems everyone on the team has at least one white parent. They are going to have to do a serious reboot.

Sorry nope.  I use one account and one account only.  Nothing I say here do I care enough to make another account to be even more "anonymous" LOL....

so...you're saying 2 white parents ftw?  
or 2 poc parents ftw?

or simply commentary on the evils of race-mixing?

Obama called, he says one black parent is enough to qualify for diversity.

Elizabeth Warren also called, she says that a relative telling you that you have some native american blood creates diversity.

The thing about politics is what one perceives to be better another might not.
I am asking with genuine curiosity and because I don’t spend a lot of time on social media and the actual media I tend to stay away from controversial stories whenever possible…what causes that have been fought for by the members of the USWNT make lives of MANY of their fellow Americans worse?
To another who disparaged the quality of the tournament, what goals did you see that were laughable, bad, poor quality of other negative descriptions? I have watched many of the matches in totality. Not just the USA either. What I have seen overall is a very high quality of soccer being played by all of the nations in the tournament. Some might have had a bad game or two in there, but overall the games have been great. The players have been skilled. The tactics (Vlatko aside) have been stellar. Have silly mistakes been made by players? Sure. Happens to the men, women and children that play this game at all levels including GOATS.
Did the USA play poorly? Yes. Did their politics cause them to play poorly? Highly doubtful. Did Rapinoe show that her decision to retire is appropriate given her quality drop off? Yes. Did Marta play poorly? Yes. But we have seen some real improvement in the women’s game globally and this tournament is filled with quality everywhere. The time zone issue is a problem for us here, but to crap all over this tournament is in poor taste particularly from fathers of girl athletes.

|me tink Crystal Dunn no have white parent|

Absolutely correct, and the fact that Flix points out a white person wrote the column means absolutely nothing. 

Right now the most "woke" folks in America are white people especially white women who think they know what is best for all minorities even over what minorities are actually saying.  I think it is some type of "white guilt" coping mechanism for them, but honestly they don't realize a lot of what they think is best for minorities and also a lot of their statements are really really racist if you dive in it.  It's always stuff like these minorities "can't better themselves on their own" or these minorities "don't know how to get a valid ID", etc....   I know plenty of minority folks that are offended by the white folks thinking they know better about what is best for them then they do as if they are dumb or stupid or something.

Just a guess here but I bet we’re waiting on the WWC to finish before we announce his firing in order to keep the focus on the teams still in it.

Based on recent history, US Soccer will not renew the coach, spend 5-1/2 months leaking names of possible replacements, reporting that excellent coaches have declined the job, hire an interim coach, and then rehire the recently not renewed idiot after some players say that they like him.

Maybe our future coach is still currently coaching in the world cup and they need to wait until their current team is knocked out? Seen it happen in the NFL before... just a thought.

I don't put much stock in the USSF caring about the Women's World Cup so much that they put off making their own team better for the sake of the tourney. 

The only argument or change is make Alex Morgan a 0, she was ineffective in this WC and won't improve. Watched one of her last club games before the WC and there is obvious decline in her game. Out with the old guard and bring up the new. We need to reload the team along with a new gaffer to take this team back to the top. But it starts NOW!!!