Future USWNT Players in Upcoming Cycle (2015-2019)

So her style is a bit like Iniesta?

 

I've watched her a bunch, she's not slow...she's just slight. which is why she was passed up by teams early on. but it also allows her to move with the agility of a brazillian on the ball - she turns better than any american, imo.

 

been pushing this name (rose l.) since 2013.

so everytime i see a post on her i jump in with an enthusiastic "yes"!!

with regard to some of the earlier names in this thread -

i've changed my mind on some of these players.

horan - no. good technique, but too achingly slow for the international game.

hagen - no. from what i've seen in the nwsl, she is being bypassed by new and younger forwards. i'd take huerta and williams before i'd take her.

winters - again no. she seem good only because she's in seattle's system. doesn't do enough for me for an nt callup.

 

So Robinho?

 

I've watched the 2014 U20 WWC, Horan was awesome. How about Sarah Hagen? Does she have great mobility?

 

I agree, i like her game. Some posters here think she's too slow. But she's so technical and smart, she deserves her chance. (i don't think she's THAT slow)

I will say, between Brian, JJ, Rose, Dunn, Horan we have some really technically gifted players coming up....more technical than just about everyone on the current team and on par with Rapinoe and Heath.

 

Don't forget to add DiBernardo & Huerta.

 

true, i've only seen Huerta play once though (oopsie daisy) ya'll think she's got the goods? how does she play?

 

same games different eyes.

horan was awful.

she always impresses with her technique. that's a given. but there are a lot of supremely technical players who never make it to the international level because they simply cannot get to the ball before the defender.

for someone around who's attacking prowess the team was built, horan disappointed. thru balls played into space for her repeatedly showed that her top speed was barely a canter.

...and this was at the u20 level.

 

awful...

I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and sh*t out a smarter, truer statement than that.

 

I thought Horan did a good job at the U20 WWC and yes when you see at PSG she is not quick as a center forward. But Wambach is not either and she made a good career out of it.

 

that's because of wambach's excellence at a particular kind of scoring - at which horan is not preeminent.

 

I dont think Horan was the biggest problem with the U20s but her performance didnt cry NT either. It wasnt like 2012 when u watched Johnston, Dunn and oddly Ohai and thought NT sooner than later.

 

i could similarly characterize your statement about her performance, but i wouldn't. because one truism about football is that people look at the same game(s) and see different things.

just stating the way i saw her play.

 

Except there are objective statistics to quantify a players performance that weed out the idiotic subject opinions, such as "she's awful".

She has 46 Goals in 63 caps for a first division French club team, as an 18 year old to 20 year old.
She was her team leader in goals, shared with ASLLANI, and ranked 6th in the league.
She had 24 Goals in 26 caps for U20

 

that's not what i said. i said:

obviously speaking of the 2014 u20 wc and the fact that as the only pro in the team she should have, imho, done much better specifically against the better teams where she was desperately needed.

i also said:

so it's clear that i do not think that "she is awful".

my opinion, idiotic according to you, is simply that she was substandard against germany and dprk when she was really needed - and that at the u20 level - and therefore does not deserve a call up to the wnt.

thankfully, that's not a prediction. she'll certainly get a call up if the wnt coaches think she deserves it.

it's just mho.

 

She's not as slow as Wombat.

 

Lotta backtracking above.

http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-comme...-least-one-uswnt-veteran-misses-2016-olympics

Foudy's Olympics roster:
(yea..it includes Horan...)

Goalkeepers: Hope Solo, Ashlyn Harris
Defenders: Becky Sauerbrunn, Meghan Klingenberg, Ali Krieger, Julie Johnston, Kelley O'Hara, Whitney Engen
Midfielders: Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Morgan Brian, Tobin Heath, Crystal Dunn
Forwards: Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Christen Press, Amy Rodriguez, Lindsey Horan

 

Too bad the victory tour coincides with the NCAA schedule. Because they dont have to pay Lavelle it probably wouldnt have been hard to bring her into the camps for the victory tour to get her some practice time with the big team.

 

Updates: CONCACAF women's Olympic qualifying will be early February in US, not Jan. as FIFA lists. Multi-city event.

— Jeff Kassouf (@JeffKassouf) August 5, 2015

 

WHO'S GOT NEXT FOR USWNT?
http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-comme...n-players-break-us-women-national-team-roster

 

If she thinks Horan can rebound from her injury, why couldn't Leroux? So Leroux's spot depends on how fast she comes back from her injury.

If she's out until the beginning of November, and the Olympics aren't until August 5th?!?

 

Despite a Stanford education, Foudy is awful at Math.