See: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/football/alex-morgan-uswnt-star-pregnant-spt-trnd/ , Maybe this means that Carli is going to the Olympics after all. Though with a new coach, maybe Lynn Williams will be instead? I wonder what Alex's plans are--the end of June might be theoretically possible, but unlikely.
According to her statement she intends to be ready to go to Japan. If you work it back... she could have had the predicted victory party conception Huge congratulations to Baby Horse!! and that’s the tea.
Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl Well sure.....happy, healthy, well adjusted but - - Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl This child will be able to balance a soccer ball on her head at 6 months Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl Full blown National Team at the age of 12. Please be a girl, Please be a girl, Please be a girl Obviously named Catherine for Catherine The Great or CTG Please be a girl
You know surprisingly, none of the 91ers/99ers kiddies have really followered in their famous mother's footsteps. I know Foudy's kids are still pretty young and I don't know if they are sporty. At the end of the day, they know how much time, effort, and passion is needed to get to that level and maybe so far, the kids haven't really shown that drive. I know some of the veterans work with children as coaches(Brandi Chastain springs to mind) There's probably going to be more pressure with the current roster of moms because those ladies like Morgan, LeRoux, (possible moms like Ertz, Ohai, and Lloyd) have married men that are all professional athletes and are going to be pretty competitive families.
I know Mia coaches her kids, she mentioned it on Foudy's podcast, but it didn't sound like it was a high level of play.
Mia had her twins in 2007, I think. That would make them only about 12. It also is not surprising that they are not, at least yet, notable on the national level in sports as it is somewhat unusual for children to follow their parent(s) at anything close to the same level even if they change sports. That is a large part of what makes stories like Kyle Rote and Jr's so interesting. In fact the only thing really surprising about Mia's kids is the fact that there were only two. I kind of expected her to go for the hat trick.
I don't think any of their children need that kind of pressure on them, but most of their kids are not old enough yet anyway. Only Joy Fawcett's children are college-aged or older (Carla Overbeck's son would also be in college, I think), and Fawcett was the first of the group to have kids. All three of her daughters were/are into sports, but only her oldest played soccer at the collegiate level, I think. But she wasn't a standout player.
I disagree wholeheartedly, there are dozens of NFL, NBA, and MLB examples where fathers and sons have both played at the highest professional level. Ken Griffey Junior might be the best known example. There is even one for US soccer that leaps to mind, Taylor Twellman and his dad Tim.
Also wonder if she will be able to come back after? Some can, some cant. Leroux couldnt and she was a speed player, like Morgan
I did not say, or imply, that it never happens. In fact I showed an example where it did. While there are dozens of examples like you state, there are tens of thousands, at least, where the kids of top sports figures did not go into top level sports or did not even try. The results from vast majority do not support any genetic or emotional predisposition for kids of top players to even move into sports at all. If there were a predisposition then the exposure to top level play and talent should result in a much higher rate of excellence among kids of the best players but their rate does not seem really higher than the population's average. In fact I seem to remember a study from the late 80s or early 90s that showed a rate of success in sports for kids of top players at or below the rate for the general public. But I will admit that I cannot find that study at this time so I cannot support my position with it. (Possibly it was never rendered online) I do remember that it only included kids that tried to excel in sports and excluded kids from both groups that never tried at all. I also remember a study from much longer ago (late 60s or early 70s) that seemed to show that for sports, like the overall population, talent appeared to skip a generation or two.
Nothing like this is 100% true (or even 80%) so it does not mean that hope should be gone. It is also possible that Sawa's genetic makeup is so strong that the genes will overcome the statistics. But a clone or five would be more certain, I think.
Also, as @McSkillz pointed out above, it is possible that being the daughter of two athletes and not just one can heighten the chances of becoming an high level athlete too and, as it happened to Morgan and other US players, Sawa married a footballer.
Oh she did? Amazeballs! I just recently watched a documentary series that included Sawa on Amazon titled "This is Football" that devoted an episode to the Nadeshiko during WWC 2011.
Not sure how good Sawa's husband was as a footballer, but he's a former Vegalta Sendai's player called Hiroaki Tsujikami. So, when, about 20 years from now, you're going to hear of a Tsujikami girl doing wonders at the WWC, you'll know she's Sawa #2.
Sometime it is the DNA of those that are several generations removed that cause talents to bloom.That is the only explanation I can come up with for my granddaughters being so beautiful and talented. (just not in sports) The parents (my daughter and son in law are average and I and the other grandparents are no better. But if you go back several generations in all lines you find people that were both beautiful and talented. They are completely different but both are so talented in their chosen fields that they are sure to be at or near the top unless they inherited my lack of ambition which neither shows any sings of that lack. I "think" that ambition and/or drive to excel is what really makes the good talent great and I also "think" that ambition is more nurture than nature. That "could" be a part of the reason why "talent" seems to skip a generation as the kids of ambitious people see the bad as well as the good about excessive ambition and that leads them to not allow the pressure to have the same effect on them as it does on their parents.1 One more thing and I hope it is not seen as racist because it is in no way intended that way: I believe that the Japanese culture often puts too much strain on their kids to be the best and that has the adverse effect of burning kids out too young. But that gets offset to some extent because nearly all kids are encouraged to excel making it more rare that a kid gets missed.. It really just hurts the most talented of the youngest children. BTW: My oldest granddaughter has received a bit of bullying in her new Japanese school due to her skewing the math curve. But she worked it out herself by simply teaching the other kids what she learned elsewhere. It appears that at least some Japanese kids are better than other races at accepting help to get better rather than simply complaining like a lot of us in the US, and other places, seem to do. My hope is that she can sometime soon get her ideas into a form where I can understand some of it. I "used" to think I was very good at math but she passed me a couple of years ago and I guess I have become the "dumb" but cuddly grandpa.
That is pretty much what I was striving for but people have become so sensitive and so unable to read real intentions that I was concerned that misinterpretation was possible. BTW: I sometimes do the same kind of things but you need to remember this is an internet board and words like "adroit" are often not understood at all, but thanks for the kind read.
Sorry to all the Alex lovers, but she ain’t going to be ready for the olympics... 1) she wasn’t even playing well recently to begin with 2) being world class soccer fit in that short of turnaround will be near impossible 3) that amount of lay-off time causes all kinds of issues for any pro athlete from a mental standpoint. You simply can take that much time off and magically jump right back where you where. Touch, timing, everything will be off for quite a while...
Well there was a player that did it MUCH faster. Joy Fawcett returned just a couple of weeks after one of her kids came and she would breast feed another at halftime during club play. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-10-10-0310100276-story.html Of course she was not a forward but the president has been set.